Opinions please

[oldodge41]

I bought new wheels and tires for my '41 Dodge. They are 6.70-15 and my old ones were 6.00-16 so I had to go with a new hubcap combo as well. I bought full moon hubcaps and painted the exposed part of the wheels red because there is a small amount of red on the trim of the car and the old caps had some red on them. [/img]

I think they look too dark so I photoshopped the pic with the wheel painted white. I hate to paint but I think I like the white a lot better. What do you guys think? I wanted something that didn't make the Dodge's butt look big, but decided that was impossible.....Thanks, Tim

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[greg g]

I never liked white wheels except on a white car, just a personal preference, I kinda like the red, but as long as you are photoshopping try a light yellow or tan just for chuckles, or maybe a light blue.

[1950 Special Deluxe]

Put me down for red.

[19vegas56]

I like the red, but it's yours so go w/ what you like.

[mrwrstory]

I like the red a lot! And besides, nothin's goin to make that booty look smaller

[randroid]

Tim,

The white rims look almost like extremely narrow WWs and if you ever put any sort of WW tires on it I think it would draw the eye to the tires rather than the beautiful car. White also creates an illusion of a larger size which would emphasize the "big butt", which is just opposite of what you want. Red, being a darker color, de-emphasizes the bulbous rear. Greg suggested trying other colors, which I think you should do because you can, but with the full moons there's just enough color showing that it is complemented by the (relatively) large matching color of the tail lights and thereby gives the car a nice accent color.

Did I think about this too much?

-Randy

[David Maxwell]

I like the look of the red and as others have said, nothings going to make that butt look small. Be proud of the junk in the trunk!! It's what gives that Dodge its character! You don't want another Ford or Chevy!!! Love it!!!!!!!

[oldodge41]

Thanks guys, keep the ideas coming. I am not very visionary on this stuff so I like the suggestions. Here are a couple more.

Tan

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Light Blue

Yellow

[greg g]

A thought on junk in the trunk. When we were in VT, a fellow asked me if my car was lowered in the rear. I said probably, as I had my traveling junk in there. Shade canopy,

tool box, some extra parts, a suitcase full of printed material, jacks, luggage, laptop, case o beer, cooler of food, piece of carpet cleaning supplies folding chairs, jumper pack, etc.

When I got home, I unloaded everythig but the chairs and the spare tire and jack. We went to a cruise in and went over some bumps, and I thought that the car was handling wierd. Maybe the bizzy coupe was designed to accomodat some weight back there.

By the way I like the tan, but as always, coming from a guy with purple wheels, suit yourself....

[aero3113]

I think the red looks GREAT

[james49ply]

go with black, keeps with the dark body color, or go with the body color,

my pennies worth

[Niel Hoback]

My thoughts are useless as its your car. But,,,,,,,, I thought I liked the red best, but now I really like that cream or light yellow.

[T120]

Nice car.The red wheels look really good

[Andydodge]

Red, I'd lower it an inch or 1&1/2 inches just in the rear which would bring the butt down........nice car either way.......andyd

[Don Coatney]

I have chrome wheels with a gold hub. I once tried red but it did not look good on my car.

[oldodge41]

Thanks for all the comments. Photoshopping the colors has been fun. I downloaded a free editor called Gimp and it works well. I like the yellow and tan more than I thought I would. The red keeps growing on me. Not a big deal, it is only paint. Probably change up the color now and then just for something different. I haven't got them balanced yet so I have to take them back off for awhile anyway. I agree Don the gold on your hubs looks much better than the red on your car.

[Dan Hiebert]

I prefer contrasting rims on cars of our era (meaning our cars eras, not us ), versus rims that are a different hue of the body color. Our D24 is grey with bright red rims. Red looks good on yours, but I think yellow would look good, too.

[suntennis]

Tan color looks nice with blue but it may not stand out as much as the red.

[maverick]

try a dark blue to match the body. ive always been partial to color-matched rims.

[Kevinb71]

I like the Red. It stands out more. But it is your car and it looks nice with any of the colors!

[RobertKB]

Match the body colour. Any other colour draws you to the rims rather than the car. I love the big butts by-the-way!

[bobostski]

Whatever color you use will have a tendency to pull out that color in the rest of the car. With the red wheel the tail light becomes more predominate. With the lighter colors, I think the chrome body strip comes out more. It's the same idea as matting a piece of art work. The color that is used for the matte will have a tendency to pull that color out of the picture and make it more dominate. If you have a picture of a land scape and you want to emphasize the trees, use green matte, the water, use blue. I think this design principle works the same for cars.

I like the red and think that a red pinstripe following the belt line chrome would make the car look sporty and help the eye travel down the length of the car ending at the tail light making the car look longer. There is a design principle that if you use a color in a design, it should be repeated someplace else in the design to create a sense of unity. Using this idea, the yellow and light blue look out if place unless you repeat these colors someplace else on the car.

[oldodge41]

Red, I'd lower it an inch or 1&1/2 inches just in the rear which would bring the butt down........nice car either way.......andyd

It's funny you would say to lower the rear an inch or so. When I replaced my rear diff. one of my goals was to bring the rear up an inch or so. It always looked like the springs were sagging to me before. My dad agrees with Andy. Different strokes for different folks...LOL

[oldodge41]

Whatever color you use will have a tendency to pull out that color in the rest of the car. With the red wheel the tail light becomes more predominate. With the lighter colors, I think the chrome body strip comes out more. It's the same idea as matting a piece of art work. The color that is used for the matte will have a tendency to pull that color out of the picture and make it more dominate. If you have a picture of a land scape and you want to emphasize the trees, use green matte, the water, use blue. I think this design principle works the same for cars.

I like the red and think that a red pinstripe following the belt line chrome would make the car look sporty and help the eye travel down the length of the car ending at the tail light making the car look longer. There is a design principle that if you use a color in a design, it should be repeated someplace else in the design to create a sense of unity. Using this idea, the yellow and light blue look out if place unless you repeat these colors someplace else on the car.

Thanks for the color tips. I am not very artistic at all. What you say about drawing out the color makes sense, at least to me. For the life of me I cannot think of how a pinstripe would be located on this car though.

[greg g]

just above the chrome strip from hood to trunk.