Stock chrome wide fives??

I have this picture of my Gramps back in whatever year this was taken. Check out the wheels on the '37 Tudor!!!!



Gramps was pretty pimp!!

I'm pretty sure that picture was takin' when that car was pretty new. Were wide fives available in chrome at some point??? Those look amazing!

 

they had a stainless cap that covered the spokes
i think called "spider caps"
then use the trim ring and it looks like a whole chrome wheel
I'm pretty sure thats what it is in this pic

Zach

 

What SUHRsc said. Spider caps. I have a stupid amount of wide 5 wheels and caps and have never come across factory chrome. My Ford books only list steel.

 

I didn't think chrome wheels were an option and I never put my Gramps in the catagory of a "customizer" so I'm guessing those must have been the "spider caps" you guys are talking about.

 

Wow... I can't find a picture of those caps anywhere! Anyone have a picture of them?? Sounds like a pretty rare item.

 

If that pick was takin when the car was new, how's the photo in color?

 

Ha! Yeah! No shit huh... yeah, not taken when new.

None the less, my Gramps wasn't much for customizing, in fact he was pretty true to just leavin' stuff be. So I'm guessing that he never had those chromed after the fact. So they must be the caps you guys speak of.

Yeah... old picture, but not that old!

 

Here is a picture of one. And that photo could be from '37-'38. Kodak intro'd color film in '35 for the masses.

 

Oh WOW!! Very cool!!! Thanks for the pic AND for the fun Kodak fact!

 

Chromed wheels were optional at least one year between '36 - '39 ... it's mentioned in one of Lorin Sorensen's "Ford Road" series books, or in Ford Life magazine. If I can find it, I'll scan the info & send it to someone more computer literate than I am so it can be posted.

 

Also there were chrome wheels as acessories in at least a year or two of the wire wheels. They are in the literature...I've seen discussions of the various chrome wheels in the V8 Times, and while they are clearly documented, no one seems to have actually seen any. Buying 5 extra wheels and paying for remount on a brand new car is something that must have looked pretty far out to customers of the era, and remained far fetched until the musclecar era, in which everyone bought a set of mags on the way home from the dealer...

 

That's a bitchin 37! I guess it runs in the family