Gts mags

**Bigtonkatoy** · 21-01-2014, 01:03 PM

I have a set of gts mags that are little unusual all the ones I have seen have been painted black and silver but theses ones have been powder coated a metallic orange sort of colour and the spokes and the rest is Crome not painted silver.

Someone had just painted over the hole rim black.

Is there any place I can go to get the rims back to original orange and Crome.

**Bigtonkatoy** · 21-01-2014, 01:10 PM

Pic of the rim so you can see the colour and Crome

**chrisp** · 21-01-2014, 01:36 PM

soda blasters maybe.
As far as "original" chrome and orange...maybe not.
And they should be charcoal and silver.

Wally · 21-01-2014, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Bigtonkatoy

Pic of the rim so you can see the colour and Crome

I had a GTR Torana that colour in the late seventies . Don't know what it is called but I would have called it a metallic brown of some sort. ( or bronze )

**Bigtonkatoy** · 21-01-2014, 02:55 PM

Yeah that sounds about right I know they did come off a gtr xu1 torana and they were painted black till I started washing the ute and some of the paint came off and reviled what you can see. They are also 8 inch instead of your standard 6 inch

**HK1837** · 21-01-2014, 02:55 PM

Early HZ GTS would have had orange on the rims for an orange car.

**Bigtonkatoy** · 21-01-2014, 03:01 PM

I just relised I'm just down the range from you

What is the month and year they stopped the HZ

**Innuendo** · 21-01-2014, 04:23 PM

Holden did colour code GTS rims in the HZ models. God awful 99% of the time. Never factory with chrome outer rims and no they should not have come off a GTR-XU1 unless it has had a stud change.
It was a common thing in the 80's and 90's to have the centres cut out painted and welded into wider chrome outers which these appear to be. The cost of re-chroming the rims would be more expensive then buying new ones (as it has always been). Blast this set and paint the whole wheel.

**Taily** · 21-01-2014, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by Innuendo

Holden did colour code GTS rims in the HZ models. God awful 99% of the time. Never factory with chrome outer rims and no they should not have come off a GTR-XU1 unless it has had a stud change.
It was a common thing in the 80's and 90's to have the centres cut out painted and welded into wider chrome outers which these appear to be. The cost of re-chroming the rims would be more expensive then buying new ones (as it has always been). Blast this set and paint the whole wheel.

LC GTR-XU1 rims were pressed steel with caps and dress rims from memory and LJ were alloy (Sprintmasters?). Did I get that right? Either way were very different to N66 Ralleye rims.

LC: 1970-holden-lc-torana-gtr-xu1-2-door-sedan.jpg

LJ: 1972-holden-lj-torana-gtr-xu-1-bathurst-sedan.jpg

**Innuendo** · 21-01-2014, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Taily

LC GTR-XU1 rims were pressed steel with caps and dress rims from memory and LJ were alloy (Sprintmasters?). Did I get that right? Either way were very different to N66 Ralleye rims.

Sounds good to me Dave. Globe Sprintmaters were a '72 thing and the original wheels have a date stamp cast inside a circle on the rear.