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| | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 277 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 277 | I am looking for a set of caps and I thought it would be an easy task. Jim Carter does not carry them (at least not in his electronic catalog) and the ones that do have prices all over the map. LMC is $300 for a set of four and The Truck Shop is $160. Chevys of the 40's has two listed with one being "superior".
I would imagine that as long as they are stainless like the original everyone is offering the same thing. Maybe not. Have any of you bought a set of 54/55.1 hubcaps that you could give some feedback on?
Thanks,
Joe
1955 First Series 3100
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | I think the original painted hub caps were steel. They came painted Thistle Gray.
I thought the "bright" hub caps were chromed steel, but I could be wrong.
There were also accessory 16" stainless steel truck wheel covers in 1954/55st.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 21 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 21 | I agree with originals being steel(not stainless) and painted. I have the originals to my 1954 in a box(they are badly dented and rusty) and they are all grey, no accent color on the bowtie. My 54 is the basic, working man's version(no deluxe stuff, 3 window). | | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 277 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 277 | The 54 hub caps (baby moon style) were a steel core with stainless over the outside. I am certain of that (the painted version were probably steel over steel)
joe
1955 First Series 3100
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,596 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,596 | I'm sure Jim Carter has repros. He had them for my '46 GMC, and those are very hard to find. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 277 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 277 | I just called Jim Carter and apparently not everything in his catalog shows up on his website. He does have the hubcaps, part number is TR137. I will buy a set from him.
Joe
1955 First Series 3100
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