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Title: steel wheel paint colour Post by: FC P/VAN on February 10, 2009, 09:40:19 AM how do I find out what colour my original rims were??
most i see are white or black but occasional cars have a body coloured rim. cheers FC P/Van Title: Re: steel wheel paint colour Post by: Rabbitoh on February 10, 2009, 04:37:44 PM as far as I am aware, they are all (main) body colour ???
Title: Re: steel wheel paint colour Post by: ACE on February 10, 2009, 11:06:55 PM The rims are usually the same colour as the roof ;)
ACE 8) Title: Re: steel wheel paint colour Post by: cam58tiger on February 11, 2009, 01:28:12 PM Matt black is the go if you want to fit dress trims, imho
Title: Re: steel wheel paint colour Post by: FC P/VAN on February 11, 2009, 02:18:57 PM Matt black is the go if you want to fit dress trims, imho I am wanting to go back to as original as possible. Title: Re: steel wheel paint colour Post by: mcl1959 on February 11, 2009, 07:31:05 PM Ace & Rabbitoh are both right to a degree
In FE the wheels are the main body colour. But in FC the wheels are painted the lighter colour of the two shades that the car is painted in. It makes no difference whether the darker colour is on the top or the bottom, the wheels are always the lighter colour. Lots of FE's and FC's have ended up with white wheels since later models such as EK, EJ and EH predominantly had white wheels and these ended up on earlier models when tyres wore out and a wreck of a later model was available. Ken Title: Re: steel wheel paint colour Post by: NascoHunter on February 12, 2009, 06:56:26 PM All FE-FC wheels are painted black on the inside and paint body colour on the outside.
Tony. Title: Re: steel wheel paint colour Post by: Spinner on February 17, 2009, 12:34:14 AM Thanks for that Tony. All the rims that I have (date stamped from 1957 to 1965) show this.
It appears that the rimes were painted black when manufactured, then the front (outside) face was painted the correct colour for that particular car. |