« Reply #2 on: 15 May 2013, 14:11 »
Yes, the original finish would have been polished face with grey inners.
It was very prone to corrosion and thus why your wheels have been painted silver by a previous owner as there aren't many places that can refurbish polished alloys to a decent standard for sane money.
The polished faces can only be refurbished once or twice before they have to be powder coated anyway as each time they are refurbished in an original finish they shave some of the metal off.
There are many many many replicas of Monzas about too so you won't know 100% for sure whether yours are genuine VW ones until you take them off the car.
From the pic they look like genuine ones that have been powder coated silver though.
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