paintng wheels

[reg of the overflow]

I have a 61 Series 2 SWB and I am tarting her up a bit. The previous owner cut the guards and painted it olive drab in an attempt to make it look ex-Army. I have pretty well stripped it down and painted the interior, engine bay etc. Exterior can wait til I get new guards


What I need now is what is the best paint to use to paint the wheels with?

[garrywlh]

Probably depends on how 'authentic' you want to be. As for me, I'll probably get a few cans of Limestone mixed up to code. Got the number around here somewhere. I know Johnno and others have the code.

On the other hand, if it just needs to look close enough - so close that only a purist would notice - there is always the White Knight Classic Cream (which is not as yellow as some other 'creams') or I believe someone on this forum went with a 'magnolia'.

On the third hand, correct me if I am wrong, oh wise ones, but I heard somewhere that the wheel rims were commonly body colour on both SWB and LWB up until 1969/70.

Gotta love forums (fora?) like this when just-short-of-complete-ignoramusus like me can sound off confidently about matter such as this.

Garry

[reg of the overflow]

Thanks matey, appreciate your reply. For me it's a "close enough" project, I am rebuilding, not restoring. I "Googled" images of series L/r and it seems much of a muchness so far as wheel colour goes although there seem to be more early ones with white wheels. think i'll go there. Cheers

[russellrovers]

I have a 61 Series 2 SWB and I am tarting her up a bit. The previous owner cut the guards and painted it olive drab in an attempt to make it look ex-Army. I have pretty well stripped it down and painted the interior, engine bay etc. Exterior can wait til I get new guards


What I need now is what is the best paint to use to paint the wheels with? hi where did you get new guards from jim

[Johnno1969]

Probably depends on how 'authentic' you want to be. As for me, I'll probably get a few cans of Limestone mixed up to code. Got the number around here somewhere. I know Johnno and others have the code.

On the other hand, if it just needs to look close enough - so close that only a purist would notice - there is always the White Knight Classic Cream (which is not as yellow as some other 'creams') or I believe someone on this forum went with a 'magnolia'.

On the third hand, correct me if I am wrong, oh wise ones, but I heard somewhere that the wheel rims were commonly body colour on both SWB and LWB up until 1969/70.

Gotta love forums (fora?) like this when just-short-of-complete-ignoramusus like me can sound off confidently about matter such as this.

Garry

The code I got from the forum a while back was: [FONT=&quot]Rover no. RTC4044A; Dulux (DuCo) D38505. When I took this to the paint shop, they mixed it, but have labelled my tin "Limestone, Rover 1966-68 G1", whatever that means. Anyhow, it looks nice.


I think having the wheels body-colour was a Series II thing and the IIA's had 'em in Limestone. But even if that was a rule, I'd bet London to a brick that there were exceptions.


Cheers,


John


P.S. Yeah. I wonder about the "fora" thing too. I like going to meetings and saying "So, what's on the agendum today?"

[Peter O]

Our Series 2a cab chassis had grey body and wheels from the factory I learnt to drive in that truck and changed may flat tyres so remember the rim colour very well.

[67hardtop]

Hi, the absolute best way to paint the wheels is to get them sand blasted then powder coated. They come up looking like u just bought them and the powder coaters can usually match any colour u want. Im about to get six of my ex military ROH rims done for my old girl. Only wish they had safety lips on them for tubeless tyres. Cheers Rod

[Cobber]

I'd be more inclined to go down the powder coat route if I were to do another one. I painted my wheels (2 pac) but more so because I still had paint left from doing the roof :)

How they stand up over time remains to be seen, but they should do ok painted. It's hard to beat powder coating though :)

[Homestar]

Although I have seen some powder coated wheels that look great, I've also seen some that look awful - after some time, the natural flexing of the rims can put a multitude of fine cracks in the powder coat. Not sure if that was just a bad job or if powder coat is less flexible than paint and will tend to do that over time?

Also, if you're powder coating steel, it has to be primed with a special primer that powder coat will go over - your powder coater should tell you this and do it first, but I know some that don't. If they aren't primed then your powder coat will fall off pretty quick.