A car outcast needs some input from car guys.

[Zedyone_kenobi]

OH my that yellow is 'the business'

mmmmmmmmm

[5thhorsemann]

Not a fan of the painted spokes, looks................goopy........clumpy..............too thick...........just not right.

[grantf]

I vote for polished SS or chrome. Polished nickle would look great but I think that is for period bath fixtures.

[EScanlon]

One thing we're all overlooking is that GOOD wire wheels ARE adjustable to round and to true track. Cheaper wheels are not.

In the case of powdercoating, chroming and other full coat applications you'd be well off to have the rims checked for true-ness before you apply the coating. No sense in painting a wheel that will cause your car to wobble, especially if you cannot true it later.

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[Healey Z]

New chrome wire wheels would be $2K by the time they are shipped, mounted and balanced, more than I want to spend, but it certainly would pop against the dark green.

I spoke to a guy that restores these wheels today and he was nice enough to tell me what he uses, to match the original wheels. He uses a high temp engine paint "cast aluminum" color. I will go look for it tonight.

[Arne]

I'm with you, for a street car, the contrasting color is a bit much. I've always preferred either silver paint or chrome. Which depends on the car's paint color. On my Old English White MGB, I went with silver paint as white can be a bit boring and I didn't want the wheels to out shine the car. But if my car had been BRG, I'd have sprung for chrome.

[Oiluj]

First, it's your car so do what looks good to you.

Since youv'e asked, IMHO, I think silver paint looks best on a British roadster. All chrome looks a bit pretentious to my eye, but to each his own.

At the Palo Alto meet, I once saw a chrome bumper MGB that had a chrome lip and the rest of the wheel silver painted with polished spokes. Looked pretty nice, but I'd be afaid to ask what they cost!

[esmit208]

I say stay as close to what you have as possible. The matte appearance makes the car look all business. Chrome makes it look like something from MATTEL with a motor.

[olzed]

So it seems we have agreed you should do the wheels either silver, or if the budget allows, chrome.

If it were me I would choose silver, just because it's way cheaper.

[Walter Moore]

The Aluminum engine enamel sounds interesting. It would probably come out a flat silver when it dried. Don't bother with "Chrome" paint because it just turns silver over time.

[5thhorsemann]

Rustolium (and others) makes an aluminum flake paint that looks really nice for a spray bomb. You need to apply it in light coats to avoid figuring, but it does look nice when done rite.

[Gary in NJ]

On a green car; gold rim, silver spokes & black or gold hub.

Looked great on my YZ250F. Here's an example;