'69 Firebird steel wheel color

[JLP]

As I commented on the other site. My T-37 was Silver ('71) and had dark green metalic wheels. But it was a Freemont car and who know what they were smoking then in CA. It also had the wrong cam and lacked cid call out on front fenders. Oh well, made it even a better sleeper. Only the driver is awake.

[Kurt S]

IF wheels have been documented on early 69 SS cars....

[bkhpah]

Thats a good question. We had a 69 Trans Am that was the equivalent of an X77 Z/28 in the shop last year that had recieved a real nice restoration and the owner was a very detailed historian on his Pontiacs. This T/A had black steel wheels with Pontiac Dog-Dish caps. As for the DANA Nova we just completed it had black XT wheels on it from new. I interviewed the owner who bought it new from DANA and asked him about the wheels thinking he may have had a mag or something ordered at DANA. He insisted the wheels were black with Dog-Dish caps on black Tiger-Paw Uniroyals. Without his input, I would have just gone with the norm and painted them gold, since all the original XTs had been replaced with rallye wheels at some point. But the trunk still retained every single original component. With the XT still black and the Blackwall Uniroyal. It has been my view that Dog-Dish slated cars were body color and full wheelcover cars were black. In this case it may have been a factory mistake, but I doubt anyone buying a car like that in 69' would think that black rims would look wrong. Why would you? Look to the Mopar camp and you see the black wheel look on there budget style factory racers...BKH