Ferrari (Brushed) Gold Wheels: Something or Nothing?

Not my cup of tea , just a litte to flashy . If you like them go for it bro ! I never saw a Brinks truck behind a hearse .

 

I love the gold wheels with red, black or tdf..... Looks stunning, if a little 'look at me'.

 

First point - original is original and should always be respected.

But, if you want a set of after market wheels, I think these gold ones look great on cars in the right colors - like the greys and blacks. Maybe a bit much on the red cars and not great on the yellow.

BTW - I generally hate black wheels. Why? The tires are black, the wheel whells are black. A black wheel has no pop.

Also, BTW - I had a dark grey 308 with 3 piece BBS wheels - gold centers and polished rims. I thought they looked super on that car.

Just my opinions.

 

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Gold wheels are actually pretty old school. Look at all the Ferrari race cars from the '60's.

I have been putting gold challenge wheels on my red and black Ferraris since I bought my 328 GTB. I am having a set done for my 348 Challenge as we speak.

 

I love gold wheels. They are to me, very "classic race car". However, they need to be of a performance oriented design. Not those wagon sized wheels like 22" on an F12 or the like with oddly shaped spokes and what not. But then again, no matter the colour, I don't understand why anyone would mount a Ferris Wheel on their car in the first place. A set of OE style-ish 5 spokes or BBS CH etc. in gold, can look amazing. However, some colours lend themselves to gold wheels better than others. There were recently posted a pic of a Giallo Modena 458 Spider with gold Speciale wheels, and that is textbook schooling in how not to combine colours. This also means, no yellow calipers with god wheels! On Rosso Corsa and reds darker, it looks fine - the darker the better. It can work great on Bianco too, but gold wheels are just made for Nero cars. I saw a Blu TdF 355 some years ago, and that looked nice with gold wheels. Not a fan of gold on Silver cars. It can work on Grigio Ferro and CdF, but on an Ingrid, Alloy or Silverstone? No thanks. Gold centers with polished lips are nice classics too.

Maintenance? It depends on the product. But I find that brushed finishes or satin finishes on wheels, need upkeep. Some wheels that looks brushed, actually have a gloss clear on them as well.

And add me to the list of people who really don't like or understand black wheels. I surely hope the fad with black wheels is over soon. Don't like gold with black inserts either.

 

Here is my V12V on 21' Gold HRE
I liked them very much.. Will be buying gold ones for my scud also
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Not sure yet, will decide when winter is over

 

They can look great on the right car, and right colored car. I much prefer them over black, or any other dark color. When the wheels are too dark, I find they just blend into the wheel wells, and are no longer a design element. I like some contrast in the wheel wells.

 

If you did a light gold or white gold, what ever you want to call it, like the wheels in the first and second picture, it would come out great. Especially after you de-yellowed your car. A more lush gold can work too, but on the 612, the light gold will stay very classy, but also special. A light gold center would also look nice with polished lips. That being said, and I know you're a big fan of star wheels, but if you wanted to go with a more lush gold like on the Speciale wheels etc. the soft lines of the Challenge wheels would work wonders with the 612.

Looking forward to see what you choose.

 

For me, only on the Scuderia/16M. All else look like begging for attention.

The aftermarkets on the 458 kill the lines and look horrible, but it's your money so...

 

My perspective, fwiw - I don't like black wheels. As a kid and budding car fanatic in the 60s, learned to drive in 1975 - the cheap standard wheels on American and foreign cars were black. Hubcaps were often an option. In the 60s, alloy wheels (silver, or gold on Ferrari race cars) were on exotic foreign cars or a very expensive option. In the 70s, alloy wheels became slightly more common, almost always silver, and black steel wheels remained the cheap base wheels. Still, hubcaps were used to hide the cheap black wheels if you wanted something better looking but didn't want to spring for alloy wheels. Black wheels were something to be hidden!

Even if you had the upgrade alloy wheels, up here in Canada when you wanted to run winter tires (as became more common into the 1980s), most people bought cheap steel wheels for the winter tires - in black. Often people would buy hubcaps for their black winter steel wheels to hide the black!

So, for me, black wheels are always associated with cheap base model wheels or cheap winter wheels. There's no fancy or impressive associations to black wheels for me, just cheapness. I don't find them attractive at all - except for the fact that they hide brake dust really well on a track car.

 

I'm rather fond of them...
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Man those look awesome.



Put a set an a sapphire blue CC Maserati Coupe.

 

Not offensive, but I think they're going to look dated sooner rather than later, kind of like matte paint. And:

This.

 

Personally a fan on black and red particularly, but white sometimes works as well. Not a fan on silver/grey or blues. The black 430 scud is probably the best factory application of gold wheels/stripes ever.

I really would love a red 360 stick with matte gold wheels.

BZ

 

^1st pic is a winner!

One of my favorite GTO:
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I remember a Lancia Stratos rally car from the 70's with gold wheels, and so they go way back. They are cool to me only if the car is the right color. Usually dark. Red/gold and yellow/gold totally turn me off. Black/gold, white/gold, and gray/gold work for me.

These things are subjective, of course.

Cheers,

George

 

The gold wheels on the Silverstone looks great on that F12 in spite of the weird looking grill.