[Chrysler300] That's a wheel of a different color

["Rich Barber" <c300@xxxxxxx>]

Our '55 C-300 has a mostly black steering wheel with two short, tan/beige,
knurled sections.  This color scheme matches the black and tan dash and the
black carpet and tan leather interior trim colors.  The black all matches,
of course, and the three tans vary slightly in color.

Other '55 Chrysler models had widely varying interior colors and Chrysler
furnished widely varying two-tone colored steering wheels to match.  It
appears the colors were imbedded in the vinyl (?) material of the steering
wheels.  We're fortunate in that all the 300's had the same interior colors,
and even more so that they are classy colors that go well with a Platinum,
Tango Red or Black car.

It might be helpful to repeat the name and paint color code for the tan
portion of the '57 dashes and have DeSoto George shoot for that color for
'57 wheels.  It would be helpful to me to know the '55 tan dash color and
whether it is different than the '57.

By the way, I've just had two bat/delta wings and my rocker arm covers
refinished in 1972-74 Mercedes Benz Byzantine Gold, doctored up with some
additional yellow tint to reduce the reddish tone somewhat.  They were
clear-coated with a slightly matted topcoat to reduce the wet look.  They
look fabulous and "correct".  Paint specs and photos available on request.

C-300'ly,
Rich Barber
Brentwood, CA
1955 Chrysler C-300 (Off spec., non-Pt white, black, tan, Byzantine Gold)

-----Original Message-----
From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of James
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:39 PM
To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Chrysler300] Re: 1957 Chrysler 300 steering wheels

I have a NOS still in the box for my 59, it has turned almost a Harvest gold
color.  My original after baking many years in the AZ  sun still matches the
tan dash in the car but is full of cracks.
--- In Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, JettLarry@... wrote:
>
> I bought a NOS wheel for my 300F years ago from George Cone.  It had  been

> in its box all its life.  The factory applied beige coloring had  turned a

> sort of greenish tinge that could not have been the shade it was born  in.

> This color shift had taken 29 years but I elected to have the beige  color

> overpainted in the same shade as the dash.  The paint still matches  the
dash 
> 22 years later----a better record than the factory finish.
>  
>  
> In a message dated 6/14/2009 3:02:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
> georgelaurie@... writes:
> 
> Hello  all, I am presently working on the mould for full re-casts of the
57 
> Chrysler  300 steering wheel, these will be on original steel cores, 
> exchange basis  mostly.
> Ok so what I am trying to sort out is the actual real original  colour ( 
> yes I know I spell colour funny )  This is the top section we  are talking

> about, no problem with the Black main body of the wheel.
> I have  stripped 3 wheels and cut sections of what was left of the
original 
> material,  I then sand and polish a cross section and each time I get a 
> differant colour.  Since this material was so sun affected there is a
differant 
> colour for each  wheel depending on how much sun ( UV ) has penitrated
each 
> wheel.
> I have a  Desoto wheel here ( same wheel ) and apart from the main body 
> being brown I am  sure it used the exact same top section colour. When I 
> section it and sand  polish I come up with a dirty white, really a light
Grey that 
> I belive is the  correct original colour because this wheel was in fairly 
> good condition and  the UV rays do not seem to have discououred it further

> than the top  surface.
> Doe anyone have a NOS wheel out there to confirm this?  any  one who has 
> any knowlage of the exact real colour out there?  I want to  be able to
make 
> them correctly and any help would be great.
> Now apart from  what is correct original we also have to deal with what
you 
> guys ( and girls  )  percive to be the correct colour, that is to say I 
> want to make you my  customers happy, so it will be no good me finding the

> correct colour and  making them that way if you belive it is not correct
and 
> don't want to buy  them, so I am woundering what colour you WANT them to
be so 
> they are saleable?  what colour do you belive they should be and will be 
> happy with? looking  forward to hearing what you think, regards George.
> 





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