5 spoke SS Wheel Paint

[ORIGLS6]

ATTN; RICK NELSON.

Rick, Do you have the shots of my spare I sent you a few weeks ago? I can't put my finger on them.

Jim, I sent a few pix of the wheels on my car but I also have shots of the spare which has never been on the ground. Should be a fair representation of a '70 wheel since it's never seen daylight. Unfortunately, even a good digital shot isn't as good as having the real thing in front of you.
Here's the best I have at hand.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Good pic there Joe/Eric The color of the wheel inserts has been the topic of much debate over the years within the Yenko Deuce community, with no real conclusions yet - except that both black and charcoal have been found.

The set of NOS Magnums pulled from Yenko's shop are still in the Motorwheel boxes with yenko labels on them, and they are reportedly charcoal. Several cars have been found with black, others with charcoal, so it's still a tossup.

I painted mine black bec/ that is what I found on them, and they were original condition. I think the Wargo car has black, but I think Tommy K found charcoal on his original condition a/t deuce. So, it appears that both colors are applicable.

[Supercar_Kid]

Here are a few more pics of an original Yenko installed Deuce wheel for reference.


The windows of the wheels on this particular car appear to be flat black. I think 35+ years of crud and sun fading may give it a slightly charcoal appearance. These were late April dated wheels.

Now here is a pic of a "factory installed" Magnum 500 that was on a very low mile unrestored 69 L-78 Chevelle. It definitely appears to be more charcoal in color.

Here's a shot of the light grey backside on the original '69 Firestone Wide Oval spare.

[WILMASBOYL78]

The wheels on the 70 black car are originl and the spare is mint. I will try to get it out and take a photo. Sully, you can come and see it in person...


wilma

[Steven J]

Here are some more photos. It's a March of 1970 AO rim. It was hard to get decent lighting without changing the look of the paint.

[Steven J]

One more.

[SS427]

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Rick, Do you have the shots of my spare I sent you a few weeks ago? I can't put my finger on them.

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Sorry Dennis,
I printed the picture but did not save it to a file (at least I cannot find it). However, it looked very similar to the photos above. Slight Charcoal color and no overspray through the spokes with a battleship grey back.
Rick

[Schonyenko2]

My personal opinion is that it's not that the factory purposely had different shades as much as there were either inconsistencies in mixing(guy mixing didn't get it quite right, or didn't care) or they changed paint vendors as GM did from time to time. I also think the black tended to bleach out in time. Mine were more charcoal than black.

[ORIGLS6]

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My personal opinion is that it's not that the factory purposely had different shades as much as there were either inconsistencies in mixing(guy mixing didn't get it quite right, or didn't care) or they changed paint vendors as GM did from time to time. I also think the black tended to bleach out in time. Mine were more charcoal than black.

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Couldn't agree more. As with most other things on these cars, we should have learned to avoid two words: 'ALWAYS' and 'NEVER'. When you include the 'Human Factor' in any process, you WILL have inconsistencies.
Still, we've all failed to answer Sully's original question;..... WHICH PAINT IS CORRECT/BEST?

[ORIGLS6]

Found them.

Here's my spare.