After much mind searching (I still have a demerol hangover)-I seem to
remember that both my '77s had silver wheels with silver centers. My Nigel,
though, has the silver wheel and black centers (with lovely rondel stickers
by Joe! REally sharp!) I do know that the wheels on one of the 77s were
absolutely original as I bought the car from the original owner and it had
never been touched or changed.
Hope this doesn't confuse the wheel question further.
Laura G. and Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: Bowen, Patrick A. RP2 <jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil>
To: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Cc: Spitfire List <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Color of road wheels?
>
>Now the wheels I have seen from the factory had Black hubcaps, mine are
>silver and are apparently original. They wouldn't have silver wheels with
>silver hubs would they? Have I come across an oddity here or is there
>anyone else on the list that has black wheels on their spit? Now I am
>getting curious.
>
>Patrick
>
>At 01:32 PM 3/18/99 -0500, Andrew Mace wrote:
>>On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of Wheel colors, both my '76 and '79 have black wheels but
almost
>>> every other spit I have seen have the silver what is the deal? BTW both
of
>>> my cars are originaly red.
>>
>>AFAIK, Silver was the color. Replacement wheels were sometimes supplied
>>not in silver, but in perhaps whatever variety of primer was about the
>>wheel shop. I've got older "solid" GT6 wheels bought from a dealer that
>>were a dark grey primer. Perhaps yours were a black primer? Or just
>>coincidentally, the POs of your cars liked black wheels?
>>
>>--Andy
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>Patrick Bowen
>'79 Spitfire
>Jacksonville FL
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