Greetings everyone,
As some of you have seen I got lucky last week and found a local listing for some Turbo Fuchs. My initial thought was to have them refinished for my 77 Project, but after I started to clean them up turns out the are REALLY nice and would be a shame to refinish them. Early 87 date matched 16x7's & 16x9's
At first I was just going to trade them for some correct dated wheels for my car, but after a bit of research it turns out these are going for quite a bit more then they used to! I searched Bring a Trailer and some have gone for moon money lately, so seems like that's definitely the place to post them. I'll probably post them with no reserve as I'm sure they will exceed my expectations, but am interested to know what the community says! If you had to set a reserve, what would your minimum be?
That said I also noticed that in searching through all of the sale results I can not find a complete set of GP white Fuchs has ever sold there? They all seem to be some variation of black/polished so any thoughts on what this white set may go for?
I've never sold on BAT before and want to make sure I can provide as much detail on them as I can...
My biggest question that I would like confirmation on is the brown stuff that I discovered under the brake dust on the back of the wheels. Initially they were fairly black on the inside and started cleaning them with some aqueous solution and a Brillo pad. It took a little scrubbing but it all came off fairly easily when I hit a larger patch and realized that it looked like factory Cosmoline that the brake dust had stuck to. After that I just left the brown and tried to get just the dust off. Can anyone confirm that the factory also may have sprayed the wheels with Cosmoline? If not I've got some more scrubbing' to do!
While they could definitely use a professional polishing, there are minimal flaws with the only major flaw being on one of the center caps~ Posted a few pics below but got a lot more at the following link if you need your fix of wheel porn
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuNVw6VKpVsxngYlkF0nlhhqbdeg?e=RUIfek
Thanks!
J
