[DeTomaso] Gold Wheel Colors

[LS]

I am going to experiment with the gold rubber coating so as not to disturb the original silver paint on my wheels.

If I don't like it or get sick of it, I can always remove easily.

Thanks for the feedback,
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 From: "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: lashdeep at yahoo.com; detomaso at poca.com 
Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Gold Wheel Colors
 



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.
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>>>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:
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>http://www.supercars.net/gallery/119513/1789/748911.jpg
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>http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8487/8185598337_095dc1a853_z.jpg
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>Then there is the more yellow look to the GT5 and GT5-S wheels:
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>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/De_Tomaso_Pantera_GT5.jpg
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>Are they indeed supposed to be similar or are they unique colors?
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>>>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...)