Original wheels / hubcaps or shiney expensive aftermarket wheels look
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For a few years, I did a bit of work for a couple of owners of old '50s and '60s Corvettes who were doing factory-stock restorations. I never was a purist or a restorer myself, and after working with these self-styled "gentleman-restorers" (meaning no mechanical skills) and their **** obsession with "correctness" in such areas as markings on the heads of bolts that were underneath the car, I avoid pure-restorers. I'm into improving any car I keep, making it better than what came out of the factory, which after all was built to a price target with an endless series of compromises (those early Corvettes, cute as they looked, were mechanically undistinguished). Not only won't it BE factory-stock, I want a car to LOOK at least slightly out-of-the-ordinary.
So with my old shop-truck (a '76 Camper Special with 460/C-6 which I hauled away after a big hemlock smashed it half-flat during a windstorm) I "shaved" all the chrome insignia pieces that look dopey and are a pain to clean around. And for the wheels (FINALLY he gets to the point!!), well, I'm too cheap to spend a pile on fancy cast ones, and this was a work truck and couldn't look too unprofessional, so I settled for using the stock hubcaps over rims painted with blue Hammerite, AND stainless trim-rings (I've heard them called "beauty rings," but don't really know what to call them). This is a good-looking yet cheap way to get a lightly-custom look even if you don't do anything else to the vehicle. I'm going to do the same thing with the old bread truck I'm picking up.
But I like the various treatments in the photos!
So with my old shop-truck (a '76 Camper Special with 460/C-6 which I hauled away after a big hemlock smashed it half-flat during a windstorm) I "shaved" all the chrome insignia pieces that look dopey and are a pain to clean around. And for the wheels (FINALLY he gets to the point!!), well, I'm too cheap to spend a pile on fancy cast ones, and this was a work truck and couldn't look too unprofessional, so I settled for using the stock hubcaps over rims painted with blue Hammerite, AND stainless trim-rings (I've heard them called "beauty rings," but don't really know what to call them). This is a good-looking yet cheap way to get a lightly-custom look even if you don't do anything else to the vehicle. I'm going to do the same thing with the old bread truck I'm picking up.
But I like the various treatments in the photos!
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Newer F150 wheels on older trucks
Anyone have the argent spoke wheel of the 80's & 90's with the trim ring and cap on an older truck?
I'm getting a set together now. I think it'll have that rallye wheel look. They are pretty tasteful for a modern wheel and not far off from the ol' "white spokes". Whaddya think?
I'm getting a set together now. I think it'll have that rallye wheel look. They are pretty tasteful for a modern wheel and not far off from the ol' "white spokes". Whaddya think?
#51
Anyone have the argent spoke wheel of the 80's & 90's with the trim ring and cap on an older truck?
I'm getting a set together now. I think it'll have that rallye wheel look. They are pretty tasteful for a modern wheel and not far off from the ol' "white spokes". Whaddya think?
I'm getting a set together now. I think it'll have that rallye wheel look. They are pretty tasteful for a modern wheel and not far off from the ol' "white spokes". Whaddya think?
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