<VV> FC Wheel Color (was: Paint code)

[J R Read]

Dale,

I believe your explanation is pretty much correct.  One thing though, I 
believe that cars with body color trunks had the back side of the spare 
painted body color.  Maybe Mr. Hubble has the answer to that one?

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Dewald" <dkdewald at pasty.net>
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but as I understand it, all GM wheels of
> that era where painted at the manufacturing plant with a baked-on dipping
> type black lacquer, similar to the Corvair engine shrouds.  Once supplied
> to the assembly plant, the only wheels that were actually painted where
> those done to match a particular vehicle body and that paint was only
> applied to the exterior side of the wheel.
>
> Somewhere I also recall that Ermine White and Cameo White two-tone FC's
> (with a red painted stripe) also had red painted wheels.
>
> Dale Dewald
> Hancock, MI
>
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