old steel wheels [Archive]

55spcl

12-30-2003, 11:20 PM

Anyone running the old steel wheels with dog dishes and trim rings. I was wondering what the buick trim rings looked like. If you got a picture please post it for me.I'm going to be rinning the steel wheels on my car for a while and seeing if I want to spend the money or not.

Judd

12-31-2003, 04:28 AM

55spcl

This what you want?

Judd

Judd

12-31-2003, 04:33 AM

55spcl

The caps are Buick ( 40? ) with 50 Roadmaster hubcap clips on 56 wheels, the trim rings on fuull car shot are hot rod item from swap meet ( Vintage wheel ? ). The trim ring on this post was in the trunk of 55 Super I had I'm not sure what it cam off.

Judd

68 LeSabre 4dr

12-31-2003, 05:42 AM

That's "happy " ! LOL Something about WWW car's !

Sweet :bglasses: :3gears:

55spcl

12-31-2003, 01:07 PM

Thats what I was looking for thanks alot Judd. What I think is wierd, my 59 came with rallys and the steels in the trunk with the dog dishes. I did'nt think 59's even came with those maybe it was a lesabre item but I havent seen a single picture or ad with dog dishes them on.

322bnh

01-10-2004, 09:45 AM

http://home.satx.rr.com/changingphoto/buickcap.jpg
This is what is supposed to be for 55. I have 4 of these (NOS) which means they are not perfect. You can get the trim rings from Coker Tire. I do not have a picture of the trim ring but let me know I and will tell you which one is correct from Coker. The rims that had the small caps and trim rings also had 2 pinstripes. I have most of the clips for the Motor wheel. I never did put these on since I found some restored full wheel covers and later put on the repro wire wheels.

55spcl

01-10-2004, 04:43 PM

Thanks anyways but I just bought some chep ones (trim rings)from autozone they dont fit perfect but its good enough till I get my astro supremes. If anyone got some spider caps they want to let go of cheap I'm interested.

WQ59B

01-12-2004, 12:11 AM

There were 2 full wheelcovers available for '59; the DeLuxe and the Super DeLuxe (which was the DeLuxe with a spinner). LeSabres were the only model to not have a full wheelcover as standard.... but I have yet to see a factory original '59 with poverty caps.

Collectible Auto did a feature article on '59-60 Buicks, and in there is a '60 in there that's dead stock with poverty caps, and they look exactly like the ones 322bnh posted a pic of above (NO trim rings). Don't know for sure if they're correct for '59 (or '60)... but with Buicks SO infrequently getting poverty caps, I wouldn't be at all surprised to know they used the same design for numerous years.

55spcl

01-12-2004, 11:04 PM

My caps look exactly like the ones he posted except beat to hell two at least. Mines a LeSabre so maybe they are stock kind and theres no power anything on my car so its bottom of the line. I like it that way easyer to work on without all that power crap. Anyways I'm just running the rings and it looks mean as hell.