Gold Wheels

Sometimes the orange proto Jalpa had silver wheels and different mirrors too I seem to recall?

 

The Jalpa prototype shown at Geneva was Rame Colorado with gold wheels. After that, changes were progressively made to everything and only the unique shape of the hand made wheel arches and door cards remain today.

 

so final word is RAL1036 Perlgold Met ?

 

fantastic! thanks for confirming it

 

As I was not finding this thread before I recently let mix the golden paint according an untouched wheel. Here are the results:
The clearcoat should be satin but we used glossy clear coat for the sample.



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With the information from this fantastic forum I will let mix also RAL1036 perlgold met and compare the samples.

 

Look forward to seeing the results. I'm planning on having my wheels painted gold. Not what the car was delivered with but I like the look!

 

its an itch which has to be scratched Harry!
Rob

 

I had to do it as well. Funny how they look different depending on the light. Almost anodized in this photo.
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I had him leave a center intentionally. The painter got the sheen the same as the original silver. Again looks different than the above picture.
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I got the RAL1036 Perlgold Met sample card.

On the left side you can see the RAL1036 sample card

On the right side you can see the sample that was mixed according the untouched 85 wheel

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different light condition
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Comparison with a RAL sample card
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I don't know. Roy's 83 is the darker. It would not surprise me if Lamborghini had multiple shades used in any given year.

 

Bright light
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Are this wheels untouched?

 

That's a good question. I don't know. In your case I would go with the color that you matched it up to, if you are sure it is an untouched wheel. In my situation I absolutely loved the color & my car came with silver wheels anyways. The perigiold appeared to be the correct color from my research on the different 5000s cars that I found.

 

I like both colors but I would like to find out the correct hue for all the years including the early Bravos.

I am pretty sure my wheels were untouched. The visible part of the wheels was over sprayed in silver (base/clear coat). The invisible center section was painted gold with a single stage paint system and there was absolutely no evidence of an other layer, grinding or any other preparation work under the gold paint.

I was checking some QV pics and they all appear to be painted with the lighter color. It is possible that the 2V cars had an other hue but I would like to be sure.

 

I was searching the net for pictures and I found a couple of pre QV cars with light gold wheels.

For example https://www.tonyrienzi.com/1983-5000s-gold-wheels.html

 

i had a debate here with a few years back with long time highly respected poster on this thread on color matching paint to the originals. to match paint properly, you can never go by paint color code or image especially using 40-50 year old Kodachrome slide image as reference. Due to the influence of the light refracted and reflected light color will always appear different like the pics you and peter's pics have shown here.

you did the correct thing by matching the your swatch sample directly to the wheel. Even that isnt easy to do given the primer underneath and texture differences to what you see when you paint your actual part.. I applaud you... your attention to details is impressive.

 

Thank you! I will post pictures as soon as we will have a set of wheels finished.

 

If someone is interested in the formulation of my gold color I posted it in my restoration thread.

 

I speculate that wheels supplied by Campagnolo were a different shade to those supplied by OZ...