Featured Technical DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THE HECK THIS CAME OFF ????

SORRY THE PHOTO ISN'T BETTER
FOUND IN A PILE OF WHATEVER
HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE COME FROM
NO MARKINGS OF ANY KIND
YOU FOLKS HAVE NEVER LET ME DOWN BEFORE
ANY AND ALL INFO WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED
LOOKS TO BE A 14" CAP

 

What diameter? Weirdly attractive in its ugliness.

 

pic of backside? with one provided looks possible gas cap

 

what I find fascinating, is how far from the edge the valve stem hole is.

 

Aprox 8 valve stem holes to the centre valve stem hole is approx 1/2 inch so the distance to centre is 4 inch from first valve stem hole.

 

It's sure is a ugly hub cap!

What size is it? HRP

 

Having worked in a hardware store that employed 14 employees in its hey days, whenever a customer came in with an odd item for repair or replacement one particular old timer clerk always countered with a rather lame joke saying the item was off an airplane, usually an argument & an occasional wager ensued ending by the clerk saying "If it isn't on an airplane, its off an airplane".

 

LOOKS TO BE A 14"

 

ADDED A SHOT OF THE BACK SIDE

 

I enlarged the image and noticed the bottom of the center bar is perforated. HRP

 

The rectangle in the center makes me think it was designed to have the bar on it?

but it looks aftermarket, kind of crappy clips to hold it to the wheel.

 

Jim, when I saw it I thought it had a cheap aftermarket Lincoln look, HRP

 

Reminds me of one of those MoPar covers only used on one model, one year. But factory wheel covers don't rust.

 

Pretty rare for a factory cap to be chrome plated steel, but not impossible. I agree about the oddness of the offset valve stem hole, that's very strange for something if it was meant to be universal fit.

If I saw that at a swap meet, I would have to have it. No idea what it's from though.

 

Maybe off a camper, trailer, or Motorhome...but still fugly!

 

Looks to me like it came off a pimpmobile.

 

J.C. Whitney used to sell all sorts of aftermarket hubcaps/wheel covers.

 

I looked through my 1958 JCW catalog, nothing like it. I expect it's from the early-mid 60s?

 

I was thinking the same thing. Especially since the rectangular shape on the backside is perpendicular to the oversized spinner on the front.

 

I'm thinking Volare with added center piece

 

It's way different than the Volare cap. Flat center, and the shape of the outer part, for two specifics.

 

I’d run em

 

The crappy clips caused the other three matching hubcaps to fly off the rims and roll into the road ditch. This hubcap is possibly the only lone survivor.

 

YOU VERY WELL MIGHT BE RIGHT.....THE MYSTERY CONTINUES....THANKS FOR YOUR INPUT

 

It ain't traditional! HRP

 

Crappy aftermarket spinner bar wheel covers aren't traditional? Huh....

 

Come to think about it, if you had 3 more they could work on a taxi or a Corvette! HRP

 

we don't know that. It could easily be late 50's or ear;y 60's