Imo000

I don't see "moderator" under your name.

Imo000

I'm pretty sure that neither did we. All the chrome and polished rims were done either by the dealer or after it was sold to the owner.

Brett928S2

Hi

Now that is interesting...I had always assumed that chromed slots for the US were an option....

Maybe its just associating US cars generally with chrome...like those bumpers front and rear on your 50s/60s cars that look like they weigh half a ton each lol

All the best Brett

Mike Simard

I would venture to guess that there's NO WAY Porsche would have chromed the forged slot wheels. Plating weakens the material and leaves it more prone to cracking. If they would have plated a beautiful forging, it would have been an insult to those that worked on the wheels, furious engineers would have stormed into marketing offices, lead the marketing types by the ear to the fatigue testing lab and slapped them with a wet Salmon.

Fabio421

There was a gentleman at Rennsport Reunion that had polished the window trim on his 80. It really highlighted the window trim. Thats not such a good thing in my opinion but he seemed to like it.

hacker-pschorr

It's Germany, would have been slapped with a sausage.

Jim bailey - 928 International

Porsche went so far as issuing a tech bulletin stating that chroming the wheels was a NO , NO . Yet the U S market place could not understand dull finished wheels...

Mike Simard

Ooh. good catch There are no Salmon in Germany!

The poor marketing guy would have wondered: "what is this strange fish I'm being slapped with?"

hacker-pschorr

Maybe we don't deserve the really cool cars

ew928

Vot do the Porsche enginmineers think of 'Spinner' wheels?

22" Spinnahs on a CGT. Werd.