<VV> Paint/rust question (Now Painted Wheels)

[Harry Yarnell]

My understanding is that the 500's got body color wheels, everybody else got
black.

Harry Yarnell
perryman garage and orphanage
perryman, MD
hyarnell1@earthlink.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RoboMan91324@aol.com>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 1:55 PM
Subject: <VV> Paint/rust question (Now Painted Wheels)


> I believe that I saw on VV that most of the wheels were painted the body
> color of the car they were on.  Is this correct?  If true, I would think
that this
> would be a logistical problem if the car and the wheels weren't painted at
> the same time.  Using different types of paint and trying to match colors
would
> add to the problem.  Does anybody have the story?
>
> Doc
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> In a message dated 12/25/2004 8:48:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> virtualvairs-request@corvair.org writes:
>
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:58:27 -0800
> > To: virtualvairs@corvair.org
> > From: Tony Underwood <tonyu@roava.net>
> > Subject: Re: <VV> <VV>Paint/rust question
> >
> > At 08:58 hours 12/25/2004 -0600, James & Erin Marispini wrote:
> > >Tony,
> > >Thanks ! You are so right! Yes the paint BEHIND the hubcaps that you
arent
> > really meant to see is enamel. Why do you suppose they used it there?
guess
> > it might be hard to rub out if it was laquer maybe.
> > >                 Jim
> >
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure, but I think that some other division manufactured
the
> > wheels and painted them.
> >
> > Any GM gurus know the whole deal with wheels?    Chrysler was having
Kelsey
> > Hayes make some of their specialty wheels for them like the Magnum-500
and
> > "Demon" rally wheels etc.      Maybe GM did something similar...?
> >
> > tony..
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