Wheel paint colour and type of paint

[ROGER B]

1970 Traveller, smoke grey body. My car has 'cream' wheels that need some touching up. What is the correct colour, and is there an aerosol available in a suitable paint for wheels please?
Roger

[svenedin]

I have a 1969 convertible in Smoke Grey. The correct wheel colour is silver but my wheels have been Old English White for the whole of my 36 year tenure. I have seen Smoke Grey cars with the correct silver wheels and I have considered changing the colour when my wheels need re-painting but if I am completely honest I don't really think silver wheels look good against Smoke Grey. So if you want a concours car they should be silver but otherwise only change if you actually like that combination.

Stephen

[myoldjalopy]

Plenty of aerosols here, but you need to identify the colour of your wheels first. Quite likely they are OEW, but impossible to tell without seeing them.
https://www.morrisminorspares.com/body- ... uch-up-c30

[svenedin]

Oh perhaps I misunderstood the question! The "cream" is probably OEW. I thought it was a question of what colour the wheels should be for a 1970 car.

Stephen

[ROGER B]

Thank you, that is very helpful. My car was restored by Charles Ware years ago and the wheels were almost certainly painted then. I don't suppose he would have used a non-BMC colour, and they look more OEW than Snowberry, so that is what I will go for. If it doesn't match well, I will repaint all four wheels completely. Roger