Now the wheels I have seen from the factory had Black hubcaps, mine are
silver and are apparently original. They wouldn't have silver wheels with
silver hubs would they? Have I come across an oddity here or is there
anyone else on the list that has black wheels on their spit? Now I am
getting curious.
Patrick
At 01:32 PM 3/18/99 -0500, Andrew Mace wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil wrote:
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>> Speaking of Wheel colors, both my '76 and '79 have black wheels but almost
>> every other spit I have seen have the silver what is the deal? BTW both of
>> my cars are originaly red.
>
>AFAIK, Silver was the color. Replacement wheels were sometimes supplied
>not in silver, but in perhaps whatever variety of primer was about the
>wheel shop. I've got older "solid" GT6 wheels bought from a dealer that
>were a dark grey primer. Perhaps yours were a black primer? Or just
>coincidentally, the POs of your cars liked black wheels?
>
>--Andy
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Patrick Bowen
'79 Spitfire
Jacksonville FL
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