Always been a fan of painted steelies and dog dishes

Me too.

THIS all day long.,or move up to Cragar SS!

For me "Day-2" no question.

Plain steel wheels

Magnums in 15" if it must appear a factory.

Otherwise, I'm aftermarket wheels all the way.

Anything but steel wheels. On restored cars I always felt like people were trying to hard to make their car seem like it was original. I never liked them when those cars were new and they were the first thing that got changed out.

Seems like everyone can tolerate mag 500's, most even prefer them.

Seems like almost no one likes body color steel wheels, most even hate them.

I'm still strongly considering the steel wheels. It won't cost me much to give it a try. If I don't like it I can always change them back.

Here's a twist and for sure a different approach and for sure to get a laugh and a few choice comments..................................FULL WHEEL COVERS. Hey they were the next best things compared to "poverty dog dish wheels" and a good holdover until one decided on aftermarket slots, TT's, Keystones, Crager SS, or a number of other back in the day wheels. Dare to be different........I dare you

(wish I could find the member's '69 green Road Runner with the FULL WHEEL COVERS )

yeah buddy! when you just can't makeup your mind ......

and when you thought 4 choices were enough

Go with the dog dishes and maybe cop car wheels painted to match your T7 paint....

1-Magnum 500's! 2- Day 2 mags of your choice 3- (tie) Drive grandma's car/ painted steel wheels.

Well, here's my $.05 worth- If you go Magnum's, the (Ford style) 15's are head and shoulders above the original Mopar style. They're just a nicer looking wheel, and they complement pretty much any B-body. My feeling on steelies with dishes is that body color steelies look crappy. They look even crappier on a high option car, and worse on E-bodies. A-bodies and early 60's (Max wedge era) B-bodies can wear steelies the best. Black steelies are much less unpleasing to the (read: MY) eye. I happen to think the best use of steelies is when you are trying to project a "street brawler" look. Even better is steelies on the back, with a tall, fat tire, and skinnies up front on a narrow Cragar SS or an ET slot.

I always thought of it as the "NO BULLS&%^" look. Purdy wheels are like chrome valve covers

I still regret not buying your brother's car when it was for sale a few years ago. It was really nice and fairly priced at the time. It looks killer with the magnum 500's!

On the original topic, I don't care for steel wheels on almost anything, I much prefer the day 2 look OR a nice set of magnum 500's.

So far I'm sticking with original full wheel covers or Day-2 wheels of your choice. Dog dishes or plain steel wheels black or body color just don't do it for me.......unless it's an A12 car with chrome lug nuts LOL.

I wonder how cost effective it was to paint the wheels body color when putting on dog dish "hub" caps at the factory versus not painting the black steel wheels that I think came black from the wheel supplier and putting full wheel covers on? I'm sure the body color paint wasn't as much cost as wheel covers but the time, man hours, baking, and moving them inside of the factory had to be a little more than to just using the black steel wheels a received from the supplier??? And how much was the cost of the dog dishes......in today's prices at any swap meet or after market sales they are 10x more than full wheel covers