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Just wondering about this on a lazy Saturday afternoon in late January...

Most of the AD trucks were used for work purposes back in the day. Would it be a true statement that when the side mount spare tire appeared in 1953, most side mount spare tires did NOT have a hub cap attached to them? The hub cap would be an extra expense, even though it may have looked nice. I have to believe that most did not care about how it looked! Any insight on this topic?

**fonz8261 ** I can tell you the 53 my day purchased new had the side mount spare with a hub-cap. A number of years later that was the vehicle I drove to high school.

If you had the money for the side mount, you most likely had the money for the hubcap?

Hubcap on the side mount spare tire...should it stay, or should it go?

I'd used a hubcap on side-mount spare-tire.

I will use the 1954/55st truck full wheel covers [1954advance-design.com] on my "deluxe" pickup. I was very lucky to find/buy 5 wheel-covers several years ago.

I'll try to remember to check the original box to see if I bought a box of 5 or a box of four plus an extra one.

My guess is that a 54/55st buyer of the side-mount spare-tire would have to buy an extra hubcap.

You 54/55st purists : check the stainless steel "button" on the accessory lighter in the image linked-to above (the lighter button did not match the black/white 54/55st dash knobs' buttons).

All the 54/55st after-market lighter buttons match the other black/white buttons.

Using just period photographs they look to have the cap on both GMC and Chevrolet.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/advance-design_parts_co/11779003476/in/album-72157631872034068/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/advance-design_parts_co/51024581937/in/album-72157631872034068/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/advance-design_parts_co/25270151062/in/album-72157631872034068/

tclederman, as long as we are on the subject, I have seen passenger side spare tire mounts every once and awhile on AD's. They all had the full cover hubcaps. Six total. I'm I seeing things? Doc.

Doc,

I think that might have been a custom job?

One advantage would be a more even weight distribution (side-to-side)?

There are lots of fine old hubcaps of that vintage to be had.
If I had a side mound spare I would definitely want to see a shined up hub cap there. It would even be a nice accent on a rat-ish truck.

I agree it flows nicely on a “rat-ish truck”. I like that term waveski. 😂