Re: 69 H wheel color?
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Re: 69 H wheel color?
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My take is that when these wheels were brand new they were as gloss black (& similar quality) as a new car's black paint job. ..... but when they were brand new & freshly painted with close to zero metal prep, sealer, or primer - they looked great, 40+ years later not so much. How many people waxed or polished a painted steel wheel pre-1990? NONE! Why? or How? can there be pits in NOS potmetal parts ..... because the impurities in the metal (and the atmosphere) keep working against the integrity of the part.
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Re: 69 H wheel color?
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Today I called Frank Baldason at American Performance LLC, He and Rdger Gibson do a lot of high end mopar restorations as some of us know. He said the original wheels where dipped in a cheap gloss black paint from the factory. But the gloss black back then isnt the same as the gloss black now. Gloss black back then didnt have the same shine as the gloss black of today.He said he uses gloss black cut with some flatener about 10 to 15% or so just enough to take high gloss shine/sparkle away. He said it was trial and error untill it looks right . Thanks all for responding. Ray
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Re: 69 H wheel color?
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My take is that when these wheels were brand new they were as gloss black (& similar quality) as a new car's black paint job.
..... but when they were brand new & freshly painted with close to zero metal prep, sealer, or primer - they looked great, 40+ years later not so much. How many people waxed or polished a painted steel wheel pre-1990? NONE!
Why? or How? can there be pits in NOS potmetal parts ..... because the impurities in the metal (and the atmosphere) keep working against the integrity of the part.
I with you on the gloss black and to me the reason it turns a little flat is because the paint has really settled into the not perfectly smooth steel wheel surface. Here's my spare for my '69 GTX that I bought from an original owner '69 road runner that still has all of the [Edited by Moparts - Family Friendly Site - Keep it clean] from the tire mold and I have never touched it. I'm sure that if I did like you have with your wheel it would shine like high gloss paint and not satin or like it has any kind of flatener.
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Re: 69 H wheel color?
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Agreed; as per Frank and Roger and the tech archive thread the wheels (and the vast majority of all other Mopar black parts) were painted gloss. There are varying degrees of gloss due to application methods, quality of paint and (last but not least) age. Until you've restored a GM car, you might think that mopar used semi-gloss paint. Anyhow, it may be splitting hairs but the correct answer to the question is a low quality gloss black. Dave
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