Hot Rods Magnesium 200-S/Daisy/Coke Bottle Wheels

What years were they produced ?
I've seen a bunch of aluminum but don't recall magnesium, 15x8 Chevy pattern.

 

A HAMB stumper ???

 

1969/1970 , used on the trans am series cars. Pretty dang rare!

 

That kind of makes sense with the back spacing it has, I bought them because I had never seen them before.
Can you pressure wash magnesium, like at a car wash, or will it mar the finish ?

 

Swade, I remember those wheels being called American Daisies. Don't ever remember them coming on anything stock. I guess they would have been made by American Wheel Manufacturing? As far as power washing, my guess, why not.

 

http://www.roadsters.com/wheels/#ARH
This says around 69 for the aluminum and does mention a "S2" that is a two piece magnesium in 16" but nothing on a 15" magnesium .

 

I've car washed old mags. Didn't hurt anything. Just blow them dry so they don't have water ponding anywhere on them.
SPark

 

I think those are the same wheels as was used on the TLB '55 Chevy.

 

Yes, same design as TLB 55 just different material

 

These were always known as a 200-S or "Coke Bottle" American, aluminum, only ever heard of the two piece versions being made of magnesium.
I was just sure I'd find something here, nothing showing but could be worth a phone call.

http://www.akhwheels.com/pages/inventory.php?cat=8

 

washing aluminum wheels is one thing. real magnesium wheels is another. the worst thing ever for magnesium is water. it causes instant corrosion. if you want them cleaned up glass bead them. they will eventually turn a dirty grey color again. how fast that is depends on the humidity level they are stored in. dry air is good air.

 

They are dirty with dirt, not shelf dust, looks like muddy gravel road kind of dirt, that why I'm considering the car wash blasting.

 

Magnesium is water proof. If they have painted centers it may blast loose paint off of them.

 

Well the car wash and a blow dry didn't make much of a difference ha ha

 

It got the crap off now you can paint em again

 

yep....look like basic 200-S Dasiys that were painted at some point.....

 

Some idea's from some years back.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/tech-magnesium-wheel-restoration.247870/

 

Bear claws as i got them and after glass beading. Magnesium corrodes. The only thing that protects it is dow 7 coating. Paint will come off in time. It usually doesnt last very long. Water on anything magnesium thats not dow 7 coated is bad.

 

Lots of guys use that Gibbs stuff on them now after blasting. I haven't though.

 

after they are clean I think you can get paint to stick with the proper primer. Most racers ( and hot rodders) don't bother with priming magnesium or aluminum before painting, the paint never sticks.

That said I like the look of Dow #7 on mag wheels. It won't work on aluminum unfortunately. I haven't seen a set of Daiseys with that treatment I'll bet it is cool to the bone.

 

I use WD40 on em after plastic bead blasting. Then there’s always the old dirt burner method... diesel fuel, for the charcoal look.

 

Actually if you polish the rim ( and keep it polished) and just leave the centers they will discolor to a nice magnesium color.

Magnesium Daisy wheels have got to be pretty rare ( I see aluminums all the time) I don't think that I would paint them, that just makes them look like aluminum wheels.

 

I just do it to keep the white furrys at bay.

 

A friend of my dad was a motorpool mechanic in WWII. I don't remember what it was but something that he dealt with had some magnesium pieces, he said that used to soak them down with diesel fuel to keep them from oxidizing. I can't imagine that I would want to soak my million dollar wheels with diesel to see how well it worked but that is what he said that they had to do.

 

These have a couple spots on them

 

I'm not painting them Beaner, just leaving them all nat-ur-al, not sure what I'm even doing with them, still in the house right now..ha ha ha

 

The look of the dow-7 changes based on how they look to start with. A polished wheel looks different than a natural finish wheel after its coated. Dow-7 is like gold anodizing.

 

Yep its a lot like real Candy paint, the base effects the overall look of the finished product.

 

Brian
I've also been told that the Dow 7 coating on (Halibrands) would look different from batch to batch depending on the person doing them.

 

Here in the Sunny South we always called them Daisy's. HRP