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| | | | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,132 | What color should the wheels on a 49 Chevy suburban be?
Weeds | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,186 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,186 | If I recall correctly, body color.
Bruce | | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | Is this body color thing only for Burbs? From what I understand, trucks have black wheels. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 |
In 1954/55, I think all Suburban wheels were body color.
I have GM B/W photos of earlier, light-colored Chevrolet Suburbans and the wheels are dark - not body color. The wheels in all the GM Suburban photos show striping on them.
Yes, compared to other models in the same year, Suburbans had different kinds of paint color conventions in all Advance-Design years.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 204 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 204 | I have accumulated a number of wheels in the process of redoing the 53, I checked in the garage and have a myriad of colors, but two of the wheels I have still have the origianl pinstriping on them (I kept these to get the location, width, etc.), and neither of them are black, one is a dark blue and the other green, this leads me to saying the body color, unless the striping was part of a "deluxe" package and black was standard. File this in the for what it's worth folder.
Mike
My old truck's still running good, my ticker's ticking like they say it should, I got supper in the oven, a good woman's loving, and even my bad days aint that bad...Yeah, I'm a lucky man! 1953 Chevy 3100 Shortbed1965 C-30 Panel Truck 1963 C-20 Long/Fleet Pick-up California Black Plate
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | two of the wheels I have still have the origianl pinstriping on them (I kept these to get the location, width, etc.), Mike  Please! | | | | | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 204 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 204 | Woody,
I will try to get some pictures this weekend.
Mike
My old truck's still running good, my ticker's ticking like they say it should, I got supper in the oven, a good woman's loving, and even my bad days aint that bad...Yeah, I'm a lucky man! 1953 Chevy 3100 Shortbed1965 C-30 Panel Truck 1963 C-20 Long/Fleet Pick-up California Black Plate
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