I just acquired gold Ronals with the help from a great friend. I mounted them on the car over the weekend and I am really liking it. I am surprised that I do like it since I am not a fan of gold. I was informed by my friend, that back in the day when these wheels were popular, the owner would paint the wheels body color. To me, I think it would be to much blue. Another suggested a shade of silver to go with the gray interior. So, I decided to ask the Thirdgen community. Do I leave them gold, paint them blue (ultra blue metallic) or do I have them done in a silver/gray color?

 

Silver/grey!
*although looks pretty tight as is

 

I'm gonna put in a vote for a charcoal color. That car looks SUPER NICE!

 

Thanks for your opinion and compliment!

 

Thanks!

 

I really like gold wheels, but you need something else to tie it in. What about gold rocker and rear bumper emblems? -if not, I'd go with some sort of silver or charcoal.

 

Love the car. Honestly though..charcoal or black.

 

That style of Ronal is a good-looking wheel, but the gold is '90s. Painting the centers anthracite gray will bring them up to date, and perfectly accent the blue body color.

Whatever you decide, I'd like to see you return to this thread and post an "after" pic.

 

I was thinking the opposite, the wheels are VERY 80's, and the gold is the only thing keeping them from not looking hideous

 

i think silver/charcoal would match the car better. right now it looks like a Sunoco race car.
when i see gold rims on a thirdgen, i immediately think Trans Am / GTA.

 

Honestly love these wheels, and it was a good find! (I know who found them for you) But in my opinion, the look for the 80’s, and a day 2 car would be body color. I don’t think they would look bad in a silver or gunmetal either, but blue, yeah that’s my vote for sure!

 

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Gold

 

Pretty cool and period correct.

 

yeah, the wheels are kind of 80s or 90s, so is the car. my first thought was no gold but by the time I scrolled to the third picture I loved them.

 

Thanks! That's the look I am going for to be period correct. I have all SLP Performance parts on the car, runners, crank pulley, headers and the TOTL exhaust. I also have the cold air intake kit just never installed it.

 

I would leave them in gold color.

 

I also vote gold. It just works with the whole era look of the car.
Gold accents like emblems would make it really work.

 

definitely gold,if you can do any small touches to pull the gold into the overall theme(emblems,stripe?) they will look even more incredible.

 

i would say one small 1/4" or maybe even 1/2" pinstripe maybe gold and black all the way around the car at the point were the aero/ground effects
meet the car would look wild and not too busy, similar to what they do on iroc z's.it would pull the entire look together like a theme.

the stripe on this car is kind of what i was thinking with gold

 

That particular stripe is actually BRIGHT YELLOW. The black/gold 85-87 IROC stripes would probably be the best bet....as long as the gold stripe matches the gold on the wheels

 

If you would do a gold stripe, you'd about have to change the gfx and rear bumper emblems to gold as well....

 

that's what i said if you read my post,this picture was kind of low res and hard to see.
it actually looks gold in the picture i posted tbh. and the point was clearly conveyed.

 

no you wouldn't,see the white car you linked above.