Dog dish hubcaps

[Subdude59]

Originally Posted by chevmn

Here is a set we are just finishing up for one of the board members. Stainless with concave center, but blue bowties. Maybe not for the purist, but this style is what is going on my 72 C20 as I believe they look better than the older style, and are more durable, but know that is just opinion. Yes, some balk at the prices these fetch, but consider just cost to get decent "cores", the materials and hours labor it takes to bring them into this condition.

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[Subdude59]

I’m looking for a set of caps and 16”x8” rims for my 72 k20 Cheyenne Super. PM me pricing and availability. Thx
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[Subdude59]

Originally Posted by chevmn

Here is a set we are just finishing up for one of the board members. Stainless with concave center, but blue bowties. Maybe not for the purist, but this style is what is going on my 72 C20 as I believe they look better than the older style, and are more durable, but know that is just opinion. Yes, some balk at the prices these fetch, but consider just cost to get decent "cores", the materials and hours labor it takes to bring them into this condition.

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[chevmn]

Originally Posted by Subdude59

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[52napco]

Originally Posted by Subdude59

I’m looking for a set of caps and 16”x8” rims for my 72 k20 Cheyenne Super. PM me pricing and availability. Thx
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Wheels are getting tough...I waited 4 months and they went up $42 each during that
Time., keep an eye out on the parts board here .. I just bought a pretty good set from a board member...and yes I'm a hubcap hoarder.they say the first step is admitting your addiction...

I have them on both my K20s

[special-K]

Let's keep the sales and WTBs in the parts area and the discussion here

[chevmn]

Originally Posted by 52napco

Wheels are getting tough...I waited 4 months and they went up $42 each during that
Time.,key an eye out on the parts board here .. I just bought a pretty good set from a board member...and yes I'm a hubcap hoarder.they the first step is admitting your addiction...

I have them on both my K20s

16x7 should be fairly easy to find at salvage from the early 90's F250s, and vans (Ford Accuride). This is what I bought for my project, and while I got lucky, they were about $20 each from local salvage. Not long ago I ran into a single at the local pick-a-part yard sitting close to the door and grabbed it as a spare for about same price. Wish I would have had sandblasted and powder coated before I mounted the tires now. May still do that if this project drags on much longer.

[tutone]

I am myself, partial to poverty caps. Painted or SS doesn't matter. Heck I even like the 68-69 camaro caps on these trucks. I have beater caps on my shop truck and I bought a "Sunday" set to hang on to. They get bought up quick.

[72c20customcamper]

All the caps are getting harder to find . The set for my 72 I bought in Tenn at SETN i didnt even try to haggle but they were a good price anyway . These i bought as soon as they came up for sale on this board 4 1968 NOS c20 hub caps not cheap but saved me days of restoration on the ones I have on the truck

[52napco]

Those are purdy😁😁
I thought I was crazy a few years ago paying $250
For 4 NOS half ton caps but turned out to be
a buy compared to today's prices

[Steeveedee]

Seeing all these lovely hubcaps makes me want to doll mine up. But then I'd be looking harder at the paint and the body, etc., and it would be downhill from there.

[tutone]

Heres my Sunday set. Hanging on the wall where they do nobody any good.

[factorystock]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

These i bought as soon as they came up for sale on this board 4 1968 NOS c20 hub caps not cheap but saved me days of restoration on the ones I have on the truck

There appears to be a new renaissance of attitudes towards appearances. IMO, the original "look" is in after decades of "whatever tickles you fancy", majority of hubcaps were tossed aside in the first days of ownership, usually for some current fad , wagon wheels, cyclone wheels, slot type wheels etc. and good hubcaps were sold cheap at swap meets and online. Different story lately, there is now a demand for good hubcaps. Hubcaps are an extension of body styling applied to the wheels. Here is a '68 C 20 ( not mine) with original chrome hubcaps, hard to beat the look, especially when hubcaps and paint on wheels are both in great condition, they compliment each other, IMO, the look is priceless. The way things are going with supply and demand on good hubcaps, some might want to stay with "whatever" at this point in the game.

[68bowtie]

Hard to believe they still aren’t being reproduced.

[chevmn]

Originally Posted by 68bowtie

Hard to believe they still aren’t being reproduced.

Probably due to tooling cost, and most of all GM licensing for the bowtie. Even if they were, they would likely be in the neighborhood of the earlier models that are reproduced. At $400 each, or $1600 a set plus tax and shipping, the nice OEM start to look more attractive.

https://www.brotherstrucks.com/1964-...tinfo/HCC5C66/

Those have gone up since last time I looked, but were in neighborhood of $1000 a set couple years ago.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by factorystock

There appears to be a new renaissance of attitudes towards appearances. IMO, the original "look" is in after decades of "whatever tickles you fancy", majority of hubcaps were tossed aside in the first days of ownership, usually for some current fad , wagon wheels, cyclone wheels, slot type wheels etc. and good hubcaps were sold cheap at swap meets and online. Different story lately, there is now a demand for good hubcaps. Hubcaps are an extension of body styling applied to the wheels. Here is a '68 C 20 ( not mine) with original chrome hubcaps, hard to beat the look, especially when hubcaps and paint on wheels are both in great condition, they compliment each other, IMO, the look is priceless. The way things are going with supply and demand on good hubcaps, some might want to stay with "whatever" at this point in the game.

I'm leaving the stepper totally stock . 17 inch retainer ring rims with bias ply mudders

[special-K]

I have always run factory hubcaps. I have also run the few custom wheels that were made for trucks back then as well. But my first one of these trucks was a '72 C/10 I bought in '73. It was a Highlander, which I had no idea about back then. All I knew was I didn't want those wheelcovers. I probably thought they weren't original. They have nothing that even says Chevrolet or bowtie on them. I didn't put original caps on when I bought 8" & 10" wheels. I used '55 Chevy car hubcaps because I thought they looked cool. In the 80/90s when the National Chevy/GMC Truck Association was in existence, I had a running WTB ad in their publication for K/20 hubcaps. They were harder to find back then than they are now. When I bought the '72 K/20 Cheyenne Super Custom Camper I had in '91 the first thing I did is put powder coated 16.5 x 9.75 wheels on with hubcaps. It cost me way more than putting a set of alloy wheels on, but that was the look I wanted.

I don't think producing hubcaps again would be cost prohibitive. They would sell plenty enough to offset the tooling costs. The wheels are being made and this is the popular look. They'd sell plenty. Most purchases would be for four, unlike most all reproduced parts. They tooled up to make glovebox doors when virtually all glovebox doors survived. No shortage of used GB doors and they are cheap to by, yet someone tooled up for those. Same goes for many parts, such as cowl covers. I've never bought a truck that needed a cowl cover or glovebox door. When you consider how much prime hubcaps go for I think someone would be wise to reproduced these. Let's not forget about all the people who have dogs as well

[Steeveedee]

Gotta be mighty rich to feed a dog out of one of those hubcaps!

[special-K]

You know how some treat their dogs these days, like they are their children, dentist visits, health insurance... I don't think there are universities for dogs, so should be plenty of funds for a dog dish. I recommend the stainless.

Let's remember, unfortunately, the cost to produce these hubcaps should be calculated by the yen.

[factorystock]

Originally Posted by leddzepp

69-72 were blue bow tie and chrome over brass material prone to splitting. 73-76 were yellow bow tie and stainless steel much more durable.

Yep, this is what your going to run up against if your looking for originals.

[BASE]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Gotta be mighty rich to feed a dog out of one of those hubcaps!

It kind of pains me to think of all the caps that we relegated to dog dish duty when I was younger. My grandpa was a Chevy guy but he was also a farmer and he just beat the snot out of some really nice trucks over the years, and then fed the dogs with the caps. I think I can even remember some being used as target practice once or twice.

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by BASE

It kind of pains me to think of all the caps that we relegated to dog dish duty when I was younger. My grandpa was a Chevy guy but he was also a farmer and he just beat the snot out of some really nice trucks over the years, and then fed the dogs with the caps. I think I can even remember some being used as target practice once or twice.

Back when they were cheap. If we only knew!

[Eagle9502]

Originally Posted by 52napco

Wheels are getting tough...I waited 4 months and they went up $42 each during that
Time., keep an eye out on the parts board here .. I just bought a pretty good set from a board member...and yes I'm a hubcap hoarder.they say the first step is admitting your addiction...

I have them on both my K20s

Curious what wheels are on these two? Wheel vintiques? or the Ford wheels maybe?

[52napco]

Wheel vintiques 16x8

[Mike80D]

Originally Posted by cericd

I won't lie, trucks with caps do look more "complete" but they don't look too bad capless. I totally understand your concern with theft considering the ease of removal and crazy prices caps command these days.

That truck is beautiful. You throw some nice caps on it, and PRESTO! My 72 came factory with the P01 covers, but I had a second set of wheels powder coated, and bought a nice set of stainless caps from a member. Painted the bow tie blue. I switch back and forth for a different look.