Series IIa wheel colour

[gromit]

I'm sure I've seem something about this on the forum but can't find it.

I've seen body coloured wheels and limestone wheels, was there a definitive date/model when they changed. Did it vary by model (station wagon, ute, hardtop etc.)

I need to know what the wheel colour should be for a 1965 LWB station wagon.


Colin

[JDNSW]

I'm sure I've seem something about this on the forum but can't find it.

I've seen body coloured wheels and limestone wheels, was there a definitive date/model when they changed. Did it vary by model (station wagon, ute, hardtop etc.)

I need to know what the wheel colour should be for a 1965 LWB station wagon.


Colin

I think the answer is yes to all the above - colour varied with date, model, and country of assembly! And there were always special orders. Most (all?) of the ones I have bits of that are original colour are body coloured, but none of these are that late, and none are station wagons.

John

[phin]

My very original 1962 LWB trayback has body coloured wheels.

[S3ute]

Hello from Brisbane.

As others have said, the wheels were for many years the same colour as the body (in Australia anyway). That would likely mean the wheels on your wagon would have been grey assuming that was the colour on delivery. Grey was the most common colour for S2A wagons sold locally.

I am fairly sure that the first of the limestone wheels in Australia turned up on the 6 cylinder trucks with that body colour around about 1967 and also went on to the 88" green trucks and grey 4 cylinder 109" trucks around that time when the grille changed to the horizontal bar pattern.

Cheers,

[gromit]

The vehicle is a UK build (in grey) so I'm heading down the grey wheels route I think. (I need my eyes tested the colour is a light green that has faded.....)

Colin

[Cobber]

Without a photo or documentation I don't think anybody would know for sure as there didn't seem to be a set pattern of which got body colour wheels and which got limestone/roof coloured wheels. I've never seen a grey one without body coloured wheels but that doesn't mean that none rolled off the line :)

Doing my ute I decided to paint the wheels (and dash panel) limestone/roof colour to contrast with and help break up the green but I guess ultimately it's what you prefer :cool: