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Painting of the air cleaner box, My old parts … etc. (The original blog was written on 20th Oct. 2007)

I cleaned the air cleaner box because it had to be removed for the WEBER overhaul.  Now I was thinking to paint it.
I was considering the color of the air cleaner box.  However, as a primer paint, I tentatively painted it by brush with the gray rust prevent paint I bought before.


After painting I installed the air cleaner box on the engine as a trial.  But immediately I found it was bad color combination.  Which color would be interesting except for normal black?
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I had several old parts I was thinking to install on my onboro ALFA.

One was the Abarth steering wheel that I used for the 1st generation Honda Civic I drove when I was a student.
It looked not so bad on the picture, but actually the leather condition was very bad with lots of cracks.  I liked it very much, so I could not throw it away.  I was thinking I wanted to use it at the first time in 20 years.



The other one was this wheel.


I found it on the auction 2 years ago.  The seller said he used this wheel for Alfa Romeo and it had PCD 108 and offset 19mm.  I had never seen this type of wheel for Alfa Romeo, but I liked and got it.  


(Well, here is a quiz, but does anybody know the name of this wheel? ☺︎)
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