[Tigers] Factory steel wheels

[Ramon Spontelli]

I got a quart of Foam Grey from Restoration Shop/TCP Global in San Diego:

https://tcpglobal.com/pages/restoration-shop

They have an extensive color “library” and can come up with a recipe for just about anything on wheels:

https://www.autocolorlibrary.com/

Watch the video, and if you can, have a cat with Jimmy "Chips” Wells.  He’s incredible.  They’re ready with a match for Alpine Mist when we’re ready to squirt the ’54 “Proper" ‘Pine.

I can’t find the receipt for the purchase, but the sticker on the can says AE-TCP31935(B).  Don’t know if that identifies the color or not, but “Chips” will know. It’s listed for ’63 - ’65 Sunbeam, Hillman.

They mixed it for me in September of 2019.

Our Mk I is Moonstone.  Yes, it is similar to Foam Grey.  But definitely different. Because of the similarity, I thought for a long time that the wheels were painted body color.

Ramon







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Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 14:13:56 -0400
From: Allan Ballard <aballard at ix.netcom.com>
To: michael king <michael.s.king at gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Martin <jmartiniii at yahoo.com>, Tiger List Serve
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Subject: Re: [Tigers] Factory steel wheels
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Jan Servaites (SAOCA Jumping Jan) collected most of the Rootes colors.

The colors were applied to CDs which are offered for sale and can be matched by one?s paint shop.

I got a set when I painted my Tiger 14 years ago (Forest Green/Moonstone/Foam Grey) and haven?t been disappointed.

To my eyes Foam Grey isn?t too terribly different from Moonstone.

Here are a couple of pictures made with a phone camera. It was hard to snap shots that didn?t miss the shade of paint using a phone camera.

I use LAT70 wheels now but back then used wheels I painted myself Foam Grey plus the correct hubcaps and wheel trim. 

With all the hardware in place there isn?t much left to be seen that?s painted.

Allan Ballard
-Atlanta, Georgia



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> On May 26, 2022, at 12:22 PM, michael king via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> ?Joel,
> 
> 1.
> The factory steel wheels were a satin black and the front side foam grey ( the off white looking colour) on the front face with overspray going through the holes.
> 
> 2. 
> The later reinforced wheels were also used on all other rootes cars. They have a small pyramid pressing aiming at each wheel stud hole.
> 
> 3. 
> DO NOT!!  Leave the nut faces in the mounting hole recess painted. It will allow movement and can lead to the nuts coming undone and the holes ovaling and creating movement in the wheel.
> 
> 4. 
> Check any wheel for the mounting holes being ovaled. 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Tuesday, 24 May 2022, Joel Martin via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
>> Purchased a stock steel wheel to use as a spare as opposed to a 13" LAT 70 which is too tall against the trunk shelf.
>> 
>> How do you determine the difference between the "early factory steel wheel" and the "later factory steel wheel (reinforced) Mk1a/Mk2?  What color code should the later reinforced Mk1a wheel be painted?
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>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Joel
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> Michael King
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