hub caps and wheel covers

[pflaming]

Would like to see hubcaps and wheel covers. Attached is a 52 Pilot-house cap. Please show the cap or cover and give the approximate year. Show what you've got!

[RobertKB]

'53 Canadian Plymouth. Caps are different than on the US models. More like '52 caps but these are original to the car.

[Plymouthy Adams]

My 54 has freshly painted emblems on the cap

Edited August 23, 2017 by Plymouthy Adams

[aero3113]

Here are some hub caps that I painted for my 50 Plymouth

[greg g]

And now a word from the aftermarket, Wheelvitique Smoothies, trim rings, and baby moons, radials.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Hey Greg..how idid you get that car painted on the center of that smoothie?

[steveplym]

1947 Plymouth. Old paint job, but same center caps and trim rings.

[greg g]

It's a magnetic deal, I have a bunch of them, change em depending on what I park next to.........

[BloodyKnuckles]

'51 Plymouth caps with center bullet added.

BloodyKnuckles

[BobT-47P15]

P15 Special Deluxe 10" cap with period correct narrow trim ring.

(For anyone who might not know - the cheaper Deluxe came with a 9"

hubcap) (Looked the same)

Another view.

The 46-48 caps had block lettering.

The 42 cap looks similar, but has script style lettering.

[BobT-47P15]

You can use the cap with the wide trim ring, which makes it look like a

full wheel cover. The ring around the ship and script was NOT painted

red when new.

[1955 plymouth]

Three of these are from a '55 Belvedere. The odd collection of other caps are ones me and the 'lil wife found in our woods behind our house, they are still out there perched upon an old sawmill.

[1955 plymouth]

Here is a decent shot of a cap from a '55 Dodge Desoto

[Uncle-Pekka]

'51 Plymouth caps with center bullet added.

BloodyKnuckles

All the cars and wheels posted here are handsome, but B.K.'s '51 is one cool machine. The hub caps with c/bullets, big rear bumper guards and the long tail pipes are really classic combo. Top chop job looks mighty fine!

Where did you got the bumper guards?

[Howard Tarnoff]

Mine are '57 Lancer with Bullets from Chromeit. Lots of hours with tape before the oxblood paint was applied.

[David Strieb]

'36 chrysler w/'49 chrysler full wheel covers

'36 chrysler w/'46?? chrysler 9" caps and beauty rings

'38 dodge w/'53 dodge truck small caps and beauty rings

'38 dodge w/'49 dodge car full wheel covers

the '38 now runs w/only the trim rings, no caps.

My '40 ply runs GM wheels so I won't post those.

[David Strieb]

opps, the picture I posted of my '38 dodge with the full wheel covers--the caps are '53 desoto, not '49 dodge.

[dndrodshop]

My 1948 GTX Prototype

[Norm's Coupe]

I have 57 El Morocco reproduction caps on my coupe since downsizing to 15" wheels. Prior to that I had 16" wheels with the other caps on it. Also have another set of 53 Plymouth full wheel hubcaps for the current wheels if I want to switch sometime. But.....like the spinners the best so they stay on the car. The last picture is how the 16" wheels looked when I first bought the car. I did clean those up, paint them and replaced all the original hubcaps with trim rings afterward. Geez, that's 5 sets of hubcaps for the car (counting the bad ones that came with the car) since I've owned it. I just told someone you could drive yourself nuts with wheels and hubcaps.

[rolliejoe]

I agree, I especially like the chop B.K. did on the '51.

All the cars and wheels posted here are handsome, but B.K.'s '51 is one cool machine. The hub caps with c/bullets, big rear bumper guards and the long tail pipes are really classic combo. Top chop job looks mighty fine!

Where did you got the bumper guards?

[rolliejoe]

Cool thread!

1951 Cambridge with white wall:

1951 Cambridge with black wall:

excuse the dirty tires.

[BobT-47P15]

1957 Dodge Royal Lancer spinner.

1959 Dodge Royal Lancer spinner.

1956 Dodge Royal Lancer spinner.

1955 Olds Fiesta spinner.

1956 Olds Starfire spinner aftermarket copy with checker center.

The factory originl 56 Olds Starfire spinner with the 3 "worlds".

[BobT-47P15]

Mine with my set of "checkerboard" copy Olds spinners. 15".

Or, might be El Morocco copies.

[Norm's Coupe]

1956 Olds Starfire spinner aftermarket copy with checker center.

Bob, That's what I thought the Fiesta spinner caps were too until visiting the Dick Clark auto museum. They had a 57 El Morocco there with the same hubcaps. They also had a piece of original sales literature for the 57 El Morocco on a stand next to the car. Said the hubcaps were the original hubcaps that came from the factory. So........they are really a reproduction of the El Morocco hubcaps, not the Olds spinner.

[BobT-47P15]

No matter what they call them, they usually rust fairly quickly, on both

sides.

I had a set several years ago of this type, and a little sticker on the

back said they were made at the Wing Fat Hupcap Factory....I think

in Taiwan.

If a person will clean and wax these caps kinda regularly, the finish

will hold up longer. If you let them set dirty for long periods,

it seems to do a number on them. Just my observation from having

had several over the years. I bought my current set used, on ebay,

and they had already begun getting some places on them.