Original 1968 Z/28 spare tire?

[1967Z28]

On the car order form there is a place in the lower right for special instructions like painted wheels, stripe delete, special color request, etc. Attached is a picture of a low mile, special order paint, stripe delete, body color wheel '68 Z that Jerry MacNeish certified. I believe the original owner/purchaser died and his wife had it certified before selling it. It is impossible to say how many cars got body color rally wheels. Early Camaros did not have the same kind of build sheets in them like Chevelles and other car lines from 1970 onward got.

[Billohio]

I really like that

[Kurt S]

As to my comment above, I forgot about the black backside. Thanks for correcting me.

As to the body colored wheels, I'm only aware of 6 cars with them. One 1967 and five 68's. No 69's.
4 of those 68 cars were special paint, built in April or May. For non-rally wheel cars, the wheel color matches the body color. It's not a big leap that the special order color was inadvertently applied to the wheels, even though they were rally wheels. I mean who would think to order body color rallys?
The 67 car had a broadcast sheet that survives. Jon, are there any pictures of that 67 with the original wheels?
That leaves the other 68. October build, just a regular paint code on the trim tag and POP. Dunno.

[1967Z28]

No, I don't have a photo of the '67 with rally wheels. It was a Gorries Black Panther Z-28 that was immediately modified to go road racing and got mag wheels.

[JoeC]

hard to document if custom painted wheels where done at the factory or done by the dealer.

here is an interesting photo of a mod top Camaro with body color wheels.

the car looks to be new at the dealer

[Lynn]

Very interesting. I had no idea ANY cars came with Rally wheels painted body color.

On the ones that have been found, were they painted the same as silver was done? Dipped in black primer, then painted body color on the outside only?

[69SSZL1]

I went ahead and used fine sandpaper to get through the blue paint very carefully and I did find it has black primer under it.
Yes its only painted blue on the outside, and black inside.

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[Kurt S]

Originally Posted by Lynn

On the ones that have been found, were they painted the same as silver was done? Dipped in black primer, then painted body color on the outside only?

Yes. But there is a detail that bothers me. Cars were painted in lacquer. Wheels were painted in enamel.
I'd assume the body colored wheels were painted with the lacquer body paint. Else the paint supplier would have to provide a small supply of colored enamel.

[69SSZL1]

Originally Posted by Kurt S

Yes. But there is a detail that bothers me. Cars were painted in lacquer. Wheels were painted in enamel.
I'd assume the body colored wheels were painted with the lacquer body paint. Else the paint supplier would have to provide a small supply of colored enamel.

I am sure a company like GM, that makes million of cars, could figure out how to put lacquer on top of enamel primer. Since lacquer dry's in a minute, a thin layer, then final layer would work

[69SSZL1]

Anyway, I need to sell this car so if anyone wants to buy this spare tire, all you have to do is buy the whole car!
I put it on eBay since I don't know exactly what this car is worth to list on the For Sale thread.


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