These are curretly the bain of my existance right now. I'd love to find 4 of them for the wife's project. Jeff
Jerry has to have one of the koolest Hub cap collection around.... I'm going to try to do something kool this winter... Years ago Gary Mundy got me into the Hub cap craze and if your not into it you guys are missing a lot of fun... If ya get the chance you need to see Jerry's Merc moving, the blades get that slap ya in the face attention. Here is my attempt of being kool.. I'm working on another set, hopefully I'll have some pictures. Bullets do wonders... Happy Trails, Mick
Dude.....I wish I had enough talent to crank something like that out.... hell I wish I had enough dough to contract a set out as well.... Those are super sweet....
Mine are 57 fords that i have attached a four bar to. The second shot is one that i made up using some cut down spare door handles. Cant run them yet as i need more to cut up for a pair, bit heavy too. Kyle
....50 years ago a friend had a set on a 51 Ford...also naked lady on the hood....Was the coolest car around....Think he paid $59....thanks for making me feel young again
Here are my Hollywood Hubcap Co aftermarket 16" Cone Hubcaps that I bought from Aussiesteve here on the HAMB. From what I understand they are a rare set. Rat
YES! Thats the ticket! Dont know why more guys dont run full wheelcovers on fifties style rods nowadays, when you look at the little pages or old Car Crafts & Hot Rods from back in the day, MOST rods ran full caps, Lancer, Mercury, Flipper or Fiesta caps. Now it mostly seems to just be the custom guys.
This is what I am running(or pushing at the moment!). '62 Chev caps with narrow rings. I originally wanted baby moons, but got a deal on these. I think they look a little better.
Post # 45, last pic, lower left: The cap with the blunt bullet in the middle. My neighbor, ****, had a '37 Plymouth Coupe with 8.20X15 rear, 5.90X15 front and those caps. Plymouth was lowered 3" in front, resulting in a mean rake...Those caps really set it off. Car was very shiny black! (Was that a Mopar cap???)
Right as usual, George! Around our neck of the woods...(No. Calif in 1953-on up, Santa Clara/San Jose) the rods ran full caps. "Full Moons" were the favorite, (the chrome 'Hollywood Full Moons') sometimes confused by newbies as "Moon Discs"...Full moons were clean, rods had 'em, and Customs ran them with a 'flipper'. ('Bar-Moons' was the word...Now they're being repopped on the other side of the globe.) Remember '56 Buick caps? Popular around San Jose in '56-'59...on everything. '57 Dodge Lancers were in a category of their own. Very sophisticated. '55 Olds Fiestas were 'in', (the striped 'plain') but the little triple-bladed 'spinners' were the Cat's ***! The '56 Olds Starfires were really cool, my Mom had them on her '48 Cad 62 sedan. "Boss"? '57 Plymouth 'cones' were cool enough to be cloned in chrome, wheras the gennies were 'turned' in a satin tone. (my buddy Wimpy ran the chrome ones on his Deuce Highboy 5 window) I said he shoulda run 'Baldies'. (Baldies were free, and they fit early Ford wheels. They were on trailer houses at the local trailer house lot!) But we were young, and easily tempted...
1953 chrysler if my memory serves me right. I have a full set. I might rum them on my Chevy. I haven't decided yet. 53 Crysler
Here's another aftermarket cover......came in all sizes, and also in a four bar version. I found this three bar one, but haven't located any more....
Here's a site that shows some older wheelcovers for various brands of cars...........http://www.hubcaps.org/wheelcovers.html A few examples.
I'm still cap less. The ones I have bought so far are not nice enuff to run on the car now, and your guy is cool but I can't run anything too radical to maintain the built-in-'55 look. I'm pretty open right now.
View attachment 1144173 56 Olds Fiestas with center pushed out .... 55 Olds flippers added...and a center cone
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