floating hub caps

I like them. I actually like them alot. There is an old timer locally that has a shoebox that was built in the late 50's. He has smooth discs that have a 2 tone black and red star painted on them. I feel that they are very traditional and have been lost in the world of modern day customs.

Go for it and shoot us a vid please.




******Knuckles

 

My dad ran them on a caddy back in 63'.

 

There a lil tacky for my taste ... but to each there own I did have a set of moon disc's on a car trailer that were mounted to the spindle . so they didnt turn with the tires . That got a lot of looks

 

HAHAHAHA! Nuff said about that!

 

I knew a guy that had chrome naked ladies that were bolted to the spindles. I think it was kind of cool.

 

there was a thread here on the hamb on how to do it. you drill and tap the spindle if i remember correct.

 

Here you go Trailer Boy. Now you can look like all the taxis in Vegas:
http://www.capads.com/

 

Front wheels are fairly easy to do but rear wheels are a real *****. Heres how i do the front. First i make the grease cap bolt on by adding 3 mounting screws that i drill & tap into the wheel hub. Then i machine up two pices of steel tubing about 1" dia x 4" long that is a light press into each other. Then i weld the smaller od tube square and centered on to the grease cap. Then i make a steel flange to fit the hubcap and weld it to the other steel tube. To attach the tube with the flange to the cap i use a good epoxy. I then cut three thin slots length wise in the tube that mounted to the hubcap. Then push the hubcap over the tube on the hub until it stops. Measure the distance bettwen the hubcap and wheel and cut booth tubes off 1/2 that distance. Now i get two hose clamps and install them over the tube mounted to the hubcap that i cut the slots in and tighten then up till the hub caps go on and off fairly hard. Oh i also put antisize on the od of the tube thats mounted to the hub so you can get them to come off easily a few years gown the road.

 

Darn you guys! Now I'm thinking about making them!

 

Without even bringing tradition into it, I'm with Muttley on this one. However, different strokes etc etc etc………
Paul

 

Seems like the whole point of spinners was to have them SPIN! If they float they aren't catching the light, and the eye...
Just put some baby moons on it and call it a day...no one will know if they are floating or spinning.

 

Why not just "DONK" your car and add those tomato slicers???

 

I remember seeing them on the Taxis in New York. Why not put the name of your Trailer Park on them? Represent your HOOD! haha!
You know i'm just ****in with you,right!!! My buddy Red Baron has them on a car JUST LIKE YOURS! PM him,i'm sure he will help you out.

 

I heard pepboys is having a sale on stick on faux buick fender portholes ..... lol

 

I got there too late.....the guy in front of me put all of them on his Tahoe...

 

Nothing says cool like a Tahoe with fender port holes ..... lol A double stack stadium wing and a fart pipe to complete that custom look...

 

You guys talking **** about this obviously haven't been around Kustoms for very long. This "trick" goes WAY back. Done right, it's a neat touch. Saw a chopped Shoebox at the 2nd KKOA Sled Scene East in 1985 with a devil painted on a set of Moons and there wasn't a person there offended... Cecil Profitt was there with 3 of his shoeboxes.

It was the first time I had seen it but some of the graybeards told me that it was an "old" trick. I'm 60 and they were older than me so....just sayin'.

 

there is an old timer where I live that has a rad as hell shoebox that was built in the early 60's with a set of floating moon caps on the front with a traditional lil' devil holding a pitchfork sitting on a cloud painted on them.

more traditional than flat black with gloss flames...

 

haha thats awesome!!! we were posting that at the same time

that guy is from NC!

 

as far as the port holes go i got some on my pt cruiser with the wood grain decals! hahaha
thinkin i might just trick out my whole ride with every acessory autozone has to offer!

 

here is a pic of voodoo larrys 46 with floater caps i hit him up on facebbok to let him know about the sale on ports @ pepboys so he can slap some on his ride cause with those hubs he has to be as lame as i am! hahahaha

 

Stick-on bullet holes too?

 

Anybody remember seeing some old Hollywood tape on the "Roving Reporter" around Hollywood/Beverly Hills in 1949?
Two Warner Bros. reporters rode around in a brand new yellow-green '49 Ford convertible, with a portable movie camera.
The Ford was a Dealer-loaner, but had floating front caps (flat aluminum) with the Ford dealer's name, address and phone#.
I've seen this "short-short" a few times on Turner Cl***ic Movies...This is an OLD trick.

 

ABSOLUTELY! Very old trick, and very cool when done right. I've been carrying an idea for it around in my head now for 30 years, maybe I should finally do it to my latest build.

 

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Haven't seen this video come up yet
Here they are on a Viejitos' bomb

 

Looks pretty cool to me.

 

I actually think its a neat trick if done right on the right ride. It's not for me but I can see the attraction for others . Give it a shot and see how it comes out

 

I dig floating hubcaps too

 

got a friend who's sporting them on his bomb there pretty sick especially when your driving.

 

What a bunch of haters. I recall seeing traditional cars on this site....with bags and compressors-Anyone talking chit about them not being "traditional". This trick is older than half the people on this thread slamming the OP? So if you could buy your bagging kits at auto-zone, would they be p***e then? If you guys really want to razz someone, maybe you should concentrate on the guys posting about their OT 1986 Cutl*** purchase or the FNG that just signed up without a car or intro, just on here to sell some ****py Coca-Cola cooler just because its old.