I bought some rims at a local swap meet and they came with hub caps for a '55-'56 Chevy truck. I don't need them for my project so I was going to p*** them on to someone else. My question is, should I fix them up and get more out of them or just sell them as is and let someone else deal with it. All of them have some sort of issue. One has rust through, one is pretty dented up, and two have small dents. This is my first project and I don't have that much experience. [/IMG] [/IMG]
id say leave them as is, alot of the time someone else will want to fix them, or has a specific plan for a rusty pair but can only find clean nice pairs.
I'd have to think that you would be hard pressed to get enough out of them to pay for your time an paint if you redid them and tried to sell them. If you want to get them as close to perfect as you can as a personal exercise in making something look good and then throw them on Ebay that's one thing but I think you will be sorely disappointed in what you can actually get out of them either on auction sites or the cl***ifieds here or at a swap meet.
Is it worth several hours of labor to get $20 or $25 instead of $5 or $10 for them? I might buy them as-is to run on a beater and if I lose one, so what. 55-57 trucks are pretty popular, I wouldn't be surprised if they repop these. They probably would sell better if you cleaned them up, though, they would be a good thing to use to practice cleaning and polishing old chrome (or are they painted caps? In which case a spray-bomb of rustoleum after cleaning them would do it).
Looks like they're painted caps for a 55-56 truck. Used to be you could only buy repops in chrome, so the guys who wanted painted caps (which were original on most trucks) had to find good used ones to restore. I think that's still the case.
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