In our final installment of the '59 Almquist catalog, we're going to flip to the add-ons. Hubcaps (which are actually 'wheel covers' most of the time), fender skirts, dummy spots, plaques, decals and more. When I was a kid, this was always my favorit... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
quite a trip in the way back machine Mr Peabody !!! I was around 11 or 12 when that catalog came out..........it was pure porn to me at the time. Thanks for taking the time to post these. I for one enjoyed looking. hrm2k
Well I am glad that it's not just my generation that likes useless shit. Hahaha!!!! There is a lot of garbage in there but garbage that we would all love to have now like the water slides and the lights that mount to your wheel and show off your chrome, Fuzzy mirror muff etc. 6" lowering shackles!!! Is that dangerous? Or what about those front spring compressors? I really would like to find a set of those (GG) Continental Full Wheel covers. Those would be pretty cool on a hot rod as well as a bunch of other things. Thanks!!!
I didn't see an order form. I'd like to get a few dozen pairs of the cruiser skirts for 58 Impalas. they go for $1500.00 these days. cool stuff.
I love looking through those old catalogs and magazine ads, gives you kind of a feel for what was actually happening 'back in the day'
lucky seven caps.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19874&highlight=dice+hub+caps
Need to have a three way test like in the old Motor Trend: Almquist v. J.C. Whitney v. Honest Charley...
According to the hubcap page of the catalog, I have a set of "4 bar Dazzlers" on my car right now... good to know... a set was only $38 back then..
That's funny that you mention that, I've had several old timers look at my caps and say, "Man, I couldn't afford caps like that back then!"
I couldn't afford a set of 4 Superior chrome slot wheels in 1978, and they were the cheapest 'mag' wheels available.
JCWhitney sold the factory "style" caps well into the 70's... you could always tell when somebody had a set on their car... not quite as shiny, and the shape was just a little "off", softer edges... kinda like even cheesier versions of the repop Fiestas they make today.
I think I read somewhere that those George Barris pin-stripe decals were done by Von Dutch. I'll try to look it up tonight.
I have the stripes on the headlights on our '36 ford. I also have this same '59 Almquist catalog you're referring to. Cool!
I like the hubcap set P and they are still sold today and they would look really rad with a bullet in the center, I seen some for sale in Salina with the center bullet and was looking at if they had the same ones in a catalog and others sell do them yet I would personally call them"Ben-Hur " spinners as they look like they could take a hunk of tin out of your chariot!!
Hey Jive Bomber, now you know who to kill! Part of me tends to the ridiculous side, so I'd order up a set of the Z's, Space-Age. Those are past future kewl.
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