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So I picked up this restored 59 Dynamic 4 "More Door" sedan. I will be keeping the stock 14 inch wheels. Would this have most likely had blackwalls originally? Should the rims be body color? I am not a slave to originality, but the thin white walls just look wrong to me.

I am interested in your opinions.

 

Here is the brochure from 1959:




It appears that body color and big white walls were factory!

Pat

 

It would have had whitewalls. The wheels most likely were black.

 

Awesome. I will powder coat the wheels black and run the skinny whitewalls until funds allow for the thick ones.

Thanks.

Another question: Was it common for Dynamics to be two tone? Not that I will paint it, but I would guess two tone cars were Supers.

 

The brochure that was posted shows a 2-tone Dynamic 88. Having been around "back-in-the-day," the 59's I remember were a singe color. I do not know how many 2-tones rolled off the line?

 

With a car as big as yours & mine, finish it out with a nice spinner:

 

I went with black powder coated rims and black walls. I like the moonshine car look. . The rubber was $300 vs $1,000 for wide whites. I will run the poverty caps without the trim rings.

 

I like it a lot!

 

Those cars would have had white wheels as standard since it goes with all colors, with body color wheels optional. Look on your body plate and there's probably a 3rd paint code on it which would have been the wheel color.


Yup- most Dynamics and a lot of S88/98 had dogbowls with trim rings. Olds was one of the few cars that could pull that off and still make their cars look upscale.


Blackwalls would have been standard with wide whites optional.