Topic: 67 red colored wheels

[camelback]

Hi,
My 67 wimbledon white coupe with red interior has red colored wheels. I have never heared about colored wheels like this. Was this an option?

thanks

[CharlesTurner]

Hi,
My 67 wimbledon white coupe with red interior has red colored wheels. I have never heared about colored wheels like this. Was this an option?

thanks

If the car was ordered without a wheel cover option, then it would have had the dog dish caps with painted wheels.  Is your car a late '67 production date?  If you have a window sticker, there wouldn't be any note of wheel covers on it.  Of course, that's not to say that a dealer could have added full wheel covers to the car when it was sold new.

[camelback]

Thank you Charles
I have heard about colored wheels with dog dish caps, but my car was ordered with wheel covers (C7ZZ-1130-G or B acc Restauration Guide). Marti Report column 65 is a 1. And I thought dog dish cap equiped cars had body color painted wheels. The car is a Dearborn built 5/67. However, the actual combination looks not to bad and I think I will repaint them in red as soon as I figured out the correct color code.

[J_Speegle]

Agree with Charles - standard practice was to paint the wheels on cars ordered with dog dish/poverty hubcaps body color. The different colored wheels is something that went out if style and availability from the factory in the 40's

IMHO not an option - more likely a previous owner thing

[CharlesTurner]

Keep in mind that mistakes were made at the assembly plant and it wouldn't be the first time that a build sheet did not match the car.  As stated, the standard practice for Ford was that if a car had painted wheels, then the dog dish caps would have come with it from the assembly plant.  I am only familiar with this for '68 production, but since your car is a late '67, appears that maybe Ford started this practice earlier.

Of course, if you intend to show your car judged by authenticity rules, then you would have to show paperwork that your car was delivered with full wheel covers on painted wheels.  This would mean you would have to have an original invoice.

I would suggest that your wheels might have been painted by a previous owner like Jeff mentioned.  If you get a chance, look at the back of the wheels and describe what you see.  Will help determine if the paint was factory-applied.

[camelback]

At the back of the wheels I can't see anything, I need to clean it first, but the front is stamped "FoMoCo 7MD".
I don't intend to show the car for the simple reason here in Switzerland is no possibility to show a car judged by authenticity rules. At local shows you will get a price for a Shelby clone, just because it looks "nice". "Judges" not have a clue about authenticity rules, but that's a different story. I just try to keep as much of the cars originality as reasonable.

[CharlesTurner]

Is your car an export model?

Where in CH do you live?  I sold a car to a fella in Zurich about 6 years ago... a dark blue '65 fastback.

[camelback]

No, it is not an export model, its an Indianapolis Summer-Winter Rental type, and that's what I can find underneath, especially the "winter" part . Than it made its way down to Florida to 1st owners granddaughter and then to a friend of her from where I bought it and shipped to CH. I live around 20 miles north of Zurich Airport. I cannot remember right now, but there is great chance that I have seen "your" fastback before.

We are not off topic...are we?

[PraireBronze]

My 2 cents worth is that someone bought a red car at the dealership that didn't want the red wheels and they were swapped with the wheels that were on your car.  Stuff like that happens all the time at dealerships in order to sell a car.