i love steelies - but stuck on color choice...

[jocko]

Ok gents, appreciate your feedback - I am trying to choose a color - the truck color isn't going to change, but am putting the old original steel wheels back on with no whitewalls (the crusty old spare's whitewall was painted black just so I could see how it would really look - hours on photoshop are good, but seeing the real thing meant a lot to me. I just primed and painted the wheel 3 times and took pictures so I could compare apples to apples on my own truck.

Mid-70's poverty cap will be the cap of choice.
Bottom line is this - I think I prefer the black wheels. Truck is going to be mildly hot rodded (4 or 5 speed, maybe an old vette dual quad setup, etc) and lowered a few inches (MAYbe) from what you see in the photos.

If the truck were all blue vice blue/white two-tone, the black would be a no-brainer. But the white wheels really seem to set off the white top and trim insert.

(I realize the white doesn't quite match the white paint on the truck - this was just a "test"... same holds true for the light blue (and this is the color the wheels would actually have been for this truck since it was 2-tone), I realize it doesn't match the truck's blue very closely either, but, again, it's just a test to choose.)

The old crusty spare was cracked and checked and not road-worthy (sad because it was the original I believe), so had no problem painting its whitewall for this little experiment. Am concerned that black wheels don't really go with the two-tone paint - but then again, not going for a stock look either.... black wheels scream hot rod to me, the white ones, on the other hand, look good and white "goes with" the truck - but it's mundane and screams "grandma" to me.

Thoughts?

jocko