Wheels Mounted - What do you think?

[sixtiesmuscle]

Did K-H actually sell gold painted wheels, or, were they either bare Strippers, or, Satin Strippers in black/bare? I thought the gold wheels were painted by Harrell for some of HIS cars.

[Pantera]

You can get a great real gold color for your wheels by using powdered bronze in clear. It is the same color as BBS and Yongblod uses on thier wheels. Then use a light clear coat on them. Ask the paint counter man what clear is actually clear. Every brand is a little different. Some are a gold or honey tint and not actually crystal clear. The wrong clear can change the way they look.



It looks like your painter went the extra mile and used some pearl in the color and that just doesn't look right on a mag.

Good luck

Pantera

[camarojoe]

They should NOT be all gold. Originally the rim faces were machined off, leaving the aluminum exposed... its not that hard to wipe off the lips once in awhile when you wash the car, and unless youre driving through a salt mine, they aren't going to corrode unless you totally neglect them for a year. Heres a good close up of the correct color and surface treatment. Lighten up the gold, flatten out the gloss a little, and remove the paint from the 2 outermost lips and they'll look like Strippers are supposed to look.

[camarojoe]

Another clear close-up showing proper color, gloss, and lip detail...

[Belair62]

Joe...how do you know it is the proper color ?? Did you find a recipe somewhere ?

[camarojoe]

The color was matched from an original nearly NOS wheel.

[sixtiesmuscle]

Yeah but, WHO painted the wheels that color gold?? Was it the K-H factory, or, somebody at Harrell's shop? For that matter, do we know for sure that the previous owner of the car didn't paint them to "match" Harrell's race car wheels?

Are we to assume that every Stripper wheel sold by the Harrell shop was painted gold?

[MosportGreen66]

I like those pictures of Steve's wheels. I got the same batch of pictures in a very generous e-mail from him (thanks LV!). If I remember correctly -- The color gold was matched from a can of spray paint. The original color was found on an NOS set of wheels that came with Steve's DH Camaro.

SixtiesMuscle -- I would find it hard to believe that the KH factory painted the wheels. The advertisment of the wheels (with the mustang drag car center stage) does not display the wheels in any sort of color; just a bare metal look. I think that DH and FG painted the wheels.

Spoke to the painter, he said he can paint right over the exsisting color. What should I do with color? Bare metal/silver type or gold? If he mixed some Autumn Gold and painted the wheels it would not look bad either!

[sixtiesmuscle]

I'm still curious what Joe thinks about who painted the wheels gold. The whole "NOS" concept doesn't fly. That means that K-H was supposed to have painted them gold. I assume Kim Howie has also done some research on this subject, so, any thoughts Kim?

[Mr70]

These Satin Strippers are on Ebay now. SATIN STRIPPERS
When these rims were painted,either Gold or black,were the Top of the Spokes left unpainted?