Triumph Spitfire Project New Wheels 

Cheers mate, you should go up and have a look at it. I'm well pleased with how the wheels turned out

Cheers Marco, I just love being within the era of the cars that I'm working on 👍

@@SteveDentonClassics Yes, brought here because my late father had a blue 1967 Spitfire Mk3 which he bought in '68 and drove with my mum from London to Naples for a holiday. On the way home, they misjudged the Calais sailing times and had to drive all night to get back to the ferry, Also the fan belt snapped and he fixed it with a pair of my mum's tights.

That's brilliant! One of them classic get you home repairs, love it!

Cheers Sean. Glade you like the cheap and cheerful spray booth lol

Cheers Doug, I'm really pleased with them, and glade you enjoyed watching my video 👍

Cheers Bruno, I couldn't agree more I think the round tail Spitfire's just have such a lovely charm of the 1960's about them

Cheers Paul, that's really nice of you to say so

Cheers mate, I think it's the lacquer making them look so shiny finish. The'll dull down in time, but I'm really pleased with them. Much better then 70's wheels on a 60's car

Andy, hope you didn't paint them white!! 😄

@@johndavey72 that would be criminal....Kept them as close to the right silver as I could fine. They look good!

Cheers Andy, I did my TR6 wheels too a few years ago, very satisfying job isn't it, but the the Rostyle hub cubs you can't see my paintwork on them. And after years of taking the hub covers on and off them they are scratched to hell now I really need to give them a lick of paint again at some point

@@SteveDentonClassics I hear ya Steve, after doing mine, I couldn't bring myself to put the beauty rings back on as the spring clips scrape all the nice paintwork.

Cheers mate, I think they give the car some real charm with the silver hub caps 👍

Cheers mate, really appreciate it. As for the overall, I'm going with a 60's look with my channel from this video onward. I just think it pays to keep in with the things I love doing

Cheers mate. I know what you mean, there a number out there that go either wire wheels, as I was going to too, or the alloy wheel path, but I wanted to be historically accurate with the look, and I'm really pleased with the results

Cheers Steve, I'm glade I went with them now as everyone has been so positive with how they look over having wire wheels

Cheers mate! It wasn’t anything specific, it was just a spray cans for wheel rim white from Halfords, I’m really pleased with the results 👍🏻

Cheers mate 👍🏻 I’ve always thought BRG suits Spitfires well and to have yours with wires too, sounds like the perfect combination. I do really like wire wheels, the one I showed in the video was borrowed off a friends car. It’s just practical thing at the moment, as I need to spend money in other areas so steels just work out a bit cheaper for now

Cheers John, I'm really pleased with the results that I've achived with the wheels. As for the sills, they have a bit of filler hear and there in them, and the floor pan on the passenger side has had a patch welded into it. I'm more than capable of doing it. Welding is something I love doing, and at work I do a far bit of it. But its really down to the size of the garage is too small to do that sort of job, and there no electric at the garage either. So it's more practical just to send the car to someone else to get new sills done

@@SteveDentonClassics Well your going to have to sell the Mrs. (if you have one) and buy a garage with a small house attatched!😅😅

Oh right, nice one 👍

Cheers Tush, they are getting a bit rare, and in all honestly I'm kinda glade now after all the positive responses to them that I did go for the 1960's steel wheels over the wire wheels. As for the overalls, well I'm going for a more period feel with my videos from now on, got to look the part 😉

I think they are quit striking at the moment as the paint is still very shiny due to the lacquer, but they'll dull down in time. It is historically accurate to a mk3 to have them steel wheels with hub cab, but like what you say it's something that you just gotta let grow on you

Cheers mate, that's real kind of you to say so. I must admit I was really pleased with how well they turned out

Cheers mate, I do find there are so many out there that are either on wires or alloys. Now after going with the steels and getting such good positive feedback, I'm really pleased I when with steel factory originals

I'll have a look into that, certainly save me a few pennys long run

@@SteveDentonClassics Only bug bare, it'll come with euro type air connectors. fine if you buy air tools from the likes of LIDL with euro connectors. I have an air chisel and ratchet as well as the kit gun. Not a major problem though. If you acquire none euro tools it's just a mater of flopping one female end over to the appropriate fitting and away you go. For the money, they're pretty good. The kit gun looks a bit rough around the edges but it works surprisingly well. I've heard of people actually putting top coat and lacquer on with good results. Main advantage though, you can pile so much more paint on at a reasonable cost once you have access to paint shop supplies over those watery cans. TBH, I'd recommend a little compressor over an expensive socket set for example every time, though that's just my opinion!

Not at all, I value all opinions. But your right with the water paint you get those days. It's more shiny, but it's not as tough as good old 2K paint. I'll certainly be looking into it. I've got so many rattle cans knocking about I really need to have a sort out at some point

The steel dunlop drill hole style wheels that where on it we're off a 1970's mk4 or 1500 and we're wrong for a 1960's built Spitfire. As my Spitfire is a 1960's mk3 it would have been fitted with slotted off white coloured steel wheel with chrome hub caps that I've fitted to it or wire wheels from the factory

Looks like $40 trailer wheels from Wallmart, get the wire wheels!