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[Lee Stewart]

[mssl72]

Originally Posted by 67since67

Lee has already answered the wheel cover question. '66 and '67 Chevelles only came with body color wheels if built with dog dish caps. If a wheel cover option was chosen wheels were gloss black.
Also on this car, the top half of the valence panel, above the stainless trim, should be argent silver, and the grille extensions should be blacked out to match the SS grille.

Bill W

Just to add a little more; 1965 and '66 had SS spinner wheel covers. The difference was the height of the spinner. '65 spinners were higher than '66. You can easily put your fingers behind the spinner on a '65. Some sort of regulation (I don't recall what exactly) lowered the spinner for '66. You can't put your fingers behind a '66 spinner.

[Keith Seymore]

My travels took me down Main Street in Royal Oak (“Livernois” in all the other Detroit ‘burbs) so I thought I would check in on the old Royal Pontiac location.

Here’s how 400 N Main Street looked in the early 60’s:



From the early 1970's through 2008 it was known as Jim Fresard Pontiac. Here’s how it looked on Father’s Day 2011:















Some activity in December of 2016:









…and as of yesterday:





Neither building kept the old 400 N Main address. The Salon is 418 N Main and the other building is 485 N Main.

Time marches on.

Except for that house. That old house never changes.

[60sStuff]

Originally Posted by 67since67

'66 and '67 Chevelles only came with body color wheels if built with dog dish caps. If a wheel cover option was chosen wheels were gloss black.Bill W

Same as the GTO’s.

There were just a select few body colors (3-4) that would have been painted onto the wheels, only with the “Standard” hubcap (dog dish).
Not all body colors were used. Example, a Red car would receive black wheels, not Red with the Standard cap.

If the GTO was optioned with full wheel disc, then the wheel was painted black like the Chevelles.

First three photos,
My ‘65 GTO with wire wheel disc on black painted wheels.
You can only see the black paint outer lip with the full cover.
The entire wheel, front and backside is black.

My buddy Grant which has a Signet Gold ‘67 GTO with the Standard hub cap has a different gold on the wheels. They are painted Seneca Bronze.

All the wheels begin as full black. The “secondary color” for Standard cap cars were sprayed only on the front.
You can see some Seneca Bronze bleed through on the last photo.

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