[Racer X]

I just had my wheels powder coated. I had them match the color on the inside of the wheel, just like ossodiseppia suggested. They look pretty good, but I am still not sure that they are 'correct'.

You see, all of the wheels that I have look like they were painted gray on the face while the inside and back are metallic silver. It may be that dealers or previous owners added the gray or maybe the factory did it. I raised the issue on the digest, yet I don't think anyone had a definitive answer.

At the recent France and Italy show I had the opportunity to look at nearly a hundred Alfas. With thirty years of aging, it was impossible to know which cars had properly restored wheels and which were wrong.

There was a GTV with custom 15" steel wheels which looked like factory, but upon close inspection were not. But they looked great!

When I had mine done, I just took them to my local powder coater, he burned the old paint off, sandblasted them, and painted them to match the inside color. I had one small dent that I should have straightened first. Oh well.