straw yellow powdercoat number

[duke36]

Some powder coaters can provide special powder coat prime. Try to select a color that can be touched up with enamel once scratched. Not sure clear coating is a good idea as Brent states. Les Schwab is in the western US as far east as Montana, Utah, etc. Some Ford / club collectors have made jigs to rotate wheels for spraying with acrylic enamel, which is easier to touch up when scratched.

[HoarseWhisperer]

Rumor has it that Model A Ford plants did not paint their wheels "Straw Yellow".

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Originally Posted by HoarseWhisperer

Rumor has it that Model A Ford plants did not paint their wheels "Straw Yellow".

That 'rumor' is correct. Ford dipped all wheels in Black enamel throughout production, --and even wheels that were painted a color by the Branches (Assy Plants) had the color applied over the Black enamel.

There was never any Straw colored wheels offered by Ford, and only after the Deluxe models were introduced in June of 1930 did they even offer colors in addition to the Black. There were initially 4 colors that had to be done at the Branches. A 5th color was added in September of '30, ...and by mid-year 31 they were down to 3 colors in addition to the Black.

I realize there is confusion in this but Straw was a striping color only (different type of paint) and was never used on wheels. The closest color to Straw was the Tacoma Crème color, ...AND for what it is worth, Straw pinstripe color was used in conjunction with Tacoma Crème colored wheel colors even though the two colors are different.

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