612 20" Challenge Wheel

The photos show the present I-81 North near Cortland, New York, gave me last week when I was driving my 2010 612 OTO to the Grand Prix of Canada in Montreal. There was a 2"-3" vertical discontinuity in the road surface that really whanged the wheel when the car went from the lower to higher surface.

If anyone has a ball polished, front (8" wide), 612 20" Challenge wheel they would sell, or can source the part, please get in touch. A friend found one on eBay, but it's gray. I don't think there is any way to get to ball polished from gray, and I don't want to paint the other three wheels on the car. Thanks for your help!

I'm not discounting fixing the bent wheel, but I would prefer not using that on the car.

I was able to drive the car home thanks to Ferrari of Quebec. They had a 20" front wheel off a California T (last photo) that had the same specs as the 612 Challenge wheel and jumped right on the job within an hour of my phone call. They sent a flat bed to the hotel, swapped the tire from the bent wheel to the Cali T wheel, put the 612 on the ground, turned the wheels lock-to-lock, and drove around gently. All looked good. The clearance to the brake caliper is a tad less for the Cali T wheel than the stock 612 Challenge wheel, but it is not frighteningly close, so I went with it. It was expensive, but the alternatives were all onerous: letting the car sit for who knows how long until a 612 wheel was found; buying an entire set of four 612 or 599 Challenge wheels; or shipping the car. Ferrari of Quebec saved the trip for me.

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Thanks for the idea, Terry. I've already been in touch with Chris at Exoticar. Here's his comment about polishing a painted wheel:

You cant polish a painted wheel unfortunately. Once stripped a painted wheel is a mess. The wheel has to come polishes from Ferrari and then we can make it look new again.