My Series III GT did not have body color wheels. They may not be the
original wheels because I'm not the original owner, but they are all
date stamped 63.
Jim
"Scott E. Christie" wrote:
>
> Over the weekend Ian and I checked this out (among other subjects still in
> debate). I showed him a factory COLOR photo of a Series I with matching body
> color wheels. I believe it's true Curt that Series I and possibly early
> Series II cars came with wheels painted body color. So far I've found no
> evidence that later cars came this way - all photos show the off-white
> color.
> There is also no evidence that GTs came with body color wheels.
> I did not have time to extensively research this but if there's enough
> evidence I can pull out old color ads and related material for a definitive
> answer.
> Scott Christie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <CMeinel464@aol.com>
> To: <wiencek@anl.gov>
> Cc: <alpines@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: steel wheel color
>
> > Tom,
> >
> > I have about 25 wheels sitting around and all of them are the off (foam)
> > white. Bought my Alpine V new, black car, wheels were white under the nave
> > plates and hubcaps.
> >
> > I just took a look a some of my collection of factory brochures and saw a
> > couple of early cars, Series II red with red wheels! Also a Series II
> white
> > with white wheels. Of course a lot of things shown in the airbrushed
> factory
> > literature is not true. But, one might assume from these sales flyers that
> > early cars may have come with matching body color wheels and it seems that
> > all my flyers for the Series IV-V only show the off white.
> >
> > Also a GT might have come with matching wheels as they did on thier
> hardtops,
> > whereas the roadster hardtops were either black or white unless you
> ordered
> > it in a matching color from the factory.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Curt
> > Classic Sunbeam
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