Color Code For American 200s Daisy wheels?

Just got a set for the Wifes 64

 

Anyone else use American Racing 200s Daisy wheels?

 

I bought a new set in '72. They looked just like Drew's, they were NOT painted. It MAY have been a pickled finish for corrosion but was not paint.

 

I refinned these last summer It's nickle over textured silver cleared with poly gloss then satin...that's the look

 

same finish schedule

 

Nickle finish T70R refin(goldtone) ribbon logo

Media blast no finish T70 (graytone) star logo

Original aged finish 200s daisy 15/8.5

It took me considerable time trying to mach the original gold tone finsh of my early 70's American 200s Daisy Mag and I felt nickel spray paint matched this the best and perfect for a low buck low tech approch but at the end of the day whatever American used is still a mystery to me... I dig all 5 spokes ....

 

new 200s nice lookin color on the spokes

 

Vintage fresh barn find no box NOS Libre...... This is the color...Early 70's vintage American cast on inside.

 

original finish T70

 

This set has never been touched. Grayish in color.

 

Not paint but a nickle plating or anodize process thats what I mean by original finish...

 

Original finish. Thats a good one, they were NOT nickle plated, and they were NOT anodized.

They were also NOT painted. American did NOT use anything on them.

I can't believe how many people can't get that straight in their heads.

Original finish was and is rough textured as cast for the spokes and machined and polished for the lips.

Thats all, nothing else.

The color that the rough textured aluminum took on came from natural factors and was NOT some finish applied.

 

The spokes were as-cast, the rims were machined (not polished.) There was no finish - no polish, no clearcoat, no paint, no anodizing - nothing but the usual whitish corrosion that shows up after a while!

It was somewhat common to paint the centers, especially the 4-bolt 'Libre' version used on various smaller cars and sometimes even open-wheel racers.

There've been later designs I think there was one that had a cast center on a chromed steel rim, and the current style that in 17in and 18in diameters is a two-piece wheel with the center welded into a formed aluminum rim like other current AR wheels e.g. the Torq-Thrust II and 427 etc. These wheels usually have a powdercoated center and a polished rim but sometimes the whole thing is polished...

 

What about a real light alodine treatment to the raw aluminum. That would give it a gold tint

Matt

 

yes thats right. that was the finish.it was alodine. i had some 17" 200s's i bought new in the early 70's that were like that. 17" with a "light" alodine finish. on them. in the 70's. maybe they were 18". they were. they were 18". with "alodine" on them. this never happend.

 

American Racing 200s a.k.a. Daisy mags///Early 70's original castings...

 

t70 in the sunshine original 40 year old finish

 

I bought the fully polished ones new for my 56' vette in the early 70's,still have them.