What are these 16" wheel covers? Lyons? Rikster!!!

I was up picking up a 41 Ford I bought for parts and the guy had these two wheel covers laying on the ground. They looked like 16's so I picked em up and he sold em cheap. They are indeed 16" caps, steel outer with a stainless center. Are these a type of Lyons cap? They do not look like a factory cap to me, but who knows. I also have this other lone 16" cap with a fakey cad looking emblem. What is it?

 

Check with evil1 here, too. Levi has a major boner for those caps and has alot of info. He had a thread on here about Lyons caps.

 

Yes they are both Lyon's caps............sweet sweet Lyons caps............

My coupe in my Avatar is running Lyon 16"s.

 

http://www.kustomrama.com/images/b/b5/Lyon-incorporated.jpg

Looks like you have the 'Combination wheel cover'. They would look really nice on an early custom.

 

mine too. looks killer.....

 

Thanks Human Fly!!

 

where´s the pic ???

 

No problem. Just drop them off in Seatac at a mates place if they are taking up room

 

Sweet.............7/11 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My no-no area feels funny!

 

thanx, they were a gift from Hawaii !!!

 

Desoto

 

Lyon's...
As mentioned by the others. Great sample. I had never seen the combination hubcap other than in the ad, and being mentioned.

Great find.

 

How can you say 'Desoto' when I showed an original add for the caps???????? Some people!

 

Nice score Chris, run em on the front and skirts on the rear

No cure for stoopid!

 

Great score!! Those hubs are really nice

 

Geeze, even without the ad them being 16" rules out pretty much every DeSoto ever made, because by the time you get early enough for them to have 16s every car had small caps.

The single cap I believe is gennie Cadillac, circa 1950-ish, the shield has all the right stuff on it.

 

Last one if definitely a Caddy cap

 

Really? What vintage Cad's had those?

 

Those look like the covers on the front of the Jimmy Summers Merc....(the Lyons)

 

Never saw a Cad hubcab like that.

 

Got a pic?

 

I didn't either. An older guy in 1953, Louie Fahrberger, had a set of those on the front of his '40 mild custom, I asked if they were Cadillacs. (the crest looked like the Caddy crests on my Mom's Caddy)

Louie said, "Nope, they're 'Custom'." I think Urzi's Custom Auto Accys. in San Jose stocked them, there were a few "Cad" type on the wall, and they carried only aftermarket parts.
Those stood out, because of their "moon" shape...Caddys were mostly 'sombrero' style.

 

Here ya go..............

 

Lyon made the Caddy looking one also. I cant find an add for that type......but they are not Caddy!

 

I picked up 4 ^^ like above at a swap meet for $20 just cause they were 16".. Did I do good??????

 

Go ahead and send those steel rings here and we'll get ya hooked up with some chrome Brother.

 

$20 is pretty good. They are not worth that much because most folks dont know anything about them. Hopefully they wont catch on.
I have paid $1 for a single cap and up to $40 for a nice single.......and $15 for a full set of drivers.

 

Apologies on the Caddy cap call, comment withdrawn..I was mesmerised by the logo in the centre and didnt look at the rest of it

 

Crazy!

Who in their right mind from Hawaii would sell off those hubcaps to someone in Germany!??!?

He's a fool.

 

Those two-part hubcaps in the opening post are sweet. Never seen those before!



Here's a pic of the Lyon's I have on my Chevy and the "other" thread on these hubcaps......

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=445362&highlight=lyon+hubcaps