[DeTomaso] Gold Wheel Colors

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/8/13 15 46 9, lashdeep at yahoo.com writes:


> In my never ending quest to combat boredom, I want to change the wheel 
> color on my car to gold.
> 
>>>A nice touch, especially on a Gr4 car.
> 
> >My research is showing that there are quite a difference in the gold used 
> on Detomasos from the Dow 7-ish look of the factory F1 and Group 4 cars:
> 
> http://www.supercars.net/gallery/119513/1789/748911.jpg
> 
> http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8487/8185598337_095dc1a853_z.jpg
> 
> Then there is the more yellow look to the GT5 and GT5-S wheels:
> 
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/De_Tomaso_Pantera_GT5.jp
> g
> 
> Are they indeed supposed to be similar or are they unique colors?
> 
>>>That GT5 is a 1972 converted to GT5 spec; it originally had silver 
wheels but he decided to paint them gold, just because he got a wild hair, such 
as you have. :>)   

(That car belongs to Geoff Peters of London, and is the one I got to drive 
from London to Italy and back for the De Tomaso 50th reunion in 2009; Geoff 
will be at the Fun Rally, and in fact is my best man).

Geoff just picked a color he liked without specific reference to anything.  
 I think you should do likewise.

Mike (likes the hue of the factory Gr4 car in your first photo link, but 
you really can't go wrong--although I will say that with a black car, I prefer 
the silver wheels; gold really looks good on a red car, such as the three 
examples you showed...)