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A friend of mine who is a F**D guy has a near mint set of Art Deco caps with beautiful original paint hanging in his building. I asked him about selling them and he said yes for $75. Is that a lot for caps that are ready to just put on. The only thing I saw that they needed was wiping the dust off. I've never seen any so nice. He says they've been hanging there for 20 yrs. or so.

Mike

Terrible price...........I'll take them if by chance you don't need........LOL

Dan

I asked this question before I looked up the repo's. Yes, I think I will be taking those off his hands!

Mike

Flip em over before you buy them. Make sure the insides are not all rusted out. I found a guy selling driver/dinged ones at a swap for $1.00/piece. Insides were pretty rotten.

The 3 that were on my truck looked great until I took them off and found the back sides rotted too.

I'll check them out real good before buying.

Thanks,
Mike

Are the original hub caps for a 41-46 chrome or stainless? I will give you $80 for them with the dust.
Jamo

Swap meet Saturday I saw two sets.

One were priced too high at $50. Rough on the side that shows and lots of rust on the other.

The other were probably priced fairly at $100 with very little corrosion inside, some minor diings, and some missing paint. I almost bought them, but I'm no where near needing them, so I passed them up.

And for those paying attention, yes I do plan to put Art Deco hub caps on my Advance Design truck.

i do not know much about price for the originals, but the reproduction ones which are not exactly inexpensive are made of considerably thinner metal. at least the ones that i bought are.

I think they are stainless but not sure. I only took one down and looked at the inside and it looked good. There were no scratches, dings, or dents and the paint on 2 of them looked just like brand new, the other 2 were good with just a little minor fading on the red. All were good enough to clean up and run just the way they are.

Mike

Mike feel free to ship them to me so I can inspect them for you.

I hear ya Oldsub! You guys wouldn't try and Hoo Doo somebody would ya?? LOL!! I'll send you a pic. Heck I need to worry about other parts right now than a set of caps but you gotta get thing when you find them. I'll be disappointed when I finally get everything. Half the fun is the thrill of the hunt for these old trucks and parts.

Mike

Which is why I currently have eight of them...