I've been searching all over the place and haven't come up with jack. I'm looking for some nice caps for my 53 cadi. No luck so far. (I know I have other **** to worry about but hey...I'm vein)haaa.
Not cheap, but they got em... http://www.allcads.com/parts.html I'd recommend shopping for some on ebay... some good deals to be had.
I hate to curse but...there's a guy on ebay that looks like he is liquidating a huge collection of caps with a lot in the '50s and '60s. You might do a search there if you haven't.
Did somebody say HUBCAPS! Was saving some but what the heck. Lots of pairs, a few sets of 4. If you have picture of what you want might have it here.
holy ****...time for me to get photos of what I'm looking for. But I see 2 in your photos I'd be interested in. thanks everyone. Oh...ebay. I don't have access to the net at home and I EBAY is blocked at work so that's the one place I can't go. Figured I'd try here. I like a lot of the caddy caps and some of the pontiac/olds caps.
allcads.com is grip. I've got coopers looking for some for me. I like to go through them because of how nice they are and fairly priced. Hubcaps has some I like. I pretty much like all 47-58 cady caps. 50-61 olds non-wire. 51-54 pontiac. bah..you know. It's a 53 cadi for crying outoud..haaa. Guess I just need to pick and go.
1953 caddy caps are hard to find. besides i own most that are not on cars at one time i had over 50 of them.
bah....no hording....haaa. Yeah I'm really looking mid 50's caddy..something like these... oh...and I'm still fighting myself...thinking about that full set up you have waiting to be put on my cadi..haa. Damn thing needs to get rolling so I can move it to santa cruz and get to work on the body....less than a month to go.
if you got a couple of ones like the ones I put in my post.....let me know. Even if it's two clean ones. I have skirts for the back. 53-56 cady. the second of my 3 photos is my prefered. but I'll take 4 or 2 of whatever you've got of the 3.
1953 caddy hub cap one year only and need special valve stems or you have to make your own out of truck dually rear wheels 47-1952 caddy sombrero 56 caddy
bah...so you mean i can't run something else on my stock wheels? Booooo. What if I drill a new hole? Dang 53's. Everything is one year only. Even the damn starter is one year only. I really like the mid 50's sombrero's.
There is a guy in Zanesville, OH who has a hubcap shop. I've never stopped and looked at his stock. I will be going by it on Friday, if you'd like i can get his phone number off the sign out front and PM it to ya and you can talk turkey with him.
i picked up a set of 54 cad caps off of egay for like $20 U.S. ($100 AUS. to my door) they look fairly straight, but i havent gots them yet... 54's are more common apparently?????...
These are some of the baddest caps EVER. Run em' as they are for a good looking Hot Rod vibe, or throw a bullet in the center for a Kustom look. Stude.
but I have a 53? shouldn't the 53 caps work on my stock wheels? I'd like to run the 54/55 style cap. if I could find some 53's I'd run em but I've only seen one set and they went for like $145 or something like that. got to find something sometime in the next couple weeks.
Real nice set of 4, stainless steel, '54/'55 Caddy caps just sold on ebay for around $50 The emblems looked good too, just needed polishing (if you wanted to leave em br***) or repainted. My point is that the '54/'55 caps seem to be way more reasonable than the '47-'52. You might be able to use that $50 figure to determine what a good deal is from another source. Good luck!
You can buy them cheap at any parts store. Various lengths in metal or plastic. Look in the tire repair section, if not there maybe the help section.
ones found in parts store will not work on 53 caddy caps. the short valve stems smash right into the face of the cap. easy way is to get metal stems from a dually truck and bend them in a S shape to fit. if you look you can see where the valve stem hole is .
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