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On 1/26/2024 at 1:29 PM, cxgvd said:
Hub Cap Collector your photos and commentary answered a mystery for me. I have a small collection of mostly common parts and if anyone needs one for a vehicle they are usually given away. Just happy to have it back on the road and serving a need.
That brings me to the heavy brass Buick cap with nickel plating and the nearly new aluminum cap as shown in the photograph. I now see from your posts they are a Buick and a replacement or after market cap. It never dawned on me they are the same size.
Regards, Gary
Yes that’s a Buick aftermarket. The original cap can be found in at least 2 different sizes and are normally chrome plated aluminum. The nickel/chrome plated brass versions seem to have been used on Buicks in Canada. There are also a few different styles of the aftermarket caps as well
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Here are all the different Maxwell hubcaps I have. Some are similar but may have different size threads or heights and some have slightly different lettering stampings as well. There is at least one style I’m aware of that I don’t have and it’s a wire wheel cap with the capital M logo in the middle.
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19 minutes ago, RansomEli said:
Wow! What a great collection. I'd hate to purchase all those hub caps in today's market.
One interesting hub cap in the 17th photo. There's several REO hub caps and one imitation: RIO. It's funny to think that someone could make a profit selling fake REO hubcaps. The RIO fits a circa 1927 REO sedan.Thanks for sharing.
That RIO hubcap is actually an original that was used on cars exported to Central and South America because the word “reo” in Spanish translates to “convict” (noun) and the word “rio” translates to “river”. There are also radiator emblems for these cars that say RIO instead of REO.
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17 hours ago, Terry Bond said:
Thanks for sharing that great collection. Have you posed some photos before? I think I understand what you are trying to do. Having a resource with photos, dating info and specific usage would be a tremendous reference for all collectors as well as anyone interested in selling similar items. I'm continually amazed at the incorrect identity of items listed for sale on the internet and a reference like that would make it easier for people to sell, and easier for buyers to find exactly what they are looking for.
Recommend you take a look at the fantastic automobile and truck emblem reference a good friend has put together as an example of what can be done. It will take a lot of research and work to get an accurate list of hubcaps, and it will need to be an on-going (never-ending) project keeping it updated and adding new information and examples of rare items as they are discovered.
http://www.americanautoemblems.com/
As you can see, it's a stand-alone website, but a link could easily be posted on this forum. That would save you having to make continuous posts that might not get the exposure desired. Those individual posts eventually fade from the front page in these forums and are eventually forgotten about.
I'm not suggesting you "copy" what has been done with emblems, but it should help give you some ideas about what could be accomplished if you dedicate some time and eneergy to it.
Good luck with your project and by all means, keep posting here with updates and photos of your great collection.Terry
I agree a continuously updating website would be the best way to publicly compile all the information and allow people to submit detailed information. I do like the format of the American emblems website and I may be able to do something similar. There use to be a hubcap collector website where you could upload your own pictures and have visitors comment on each picture but the man running it stopped collecting and let the domain expire but luckily I was able to save all the photos that people had submitted before the website shut down for good.
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20 hours ago, Walt G said:
This is just GREAT! Give some direction to all of us as to how you would like us to contribute if we can and not see a lot of duplication . Give us some direction. I think there are a number of people who have collections of collections , What would you like us to do? How should we proceed ? Seeing rare caps are neat but so are collections/examples of certain makes of cars. Can someone post a photo of say all the screw on hubcaps that were used by Plymouth from 1928 thru 1931? ( or did they have screw on hubcaps in 1931)
Thanks for doing this.
Walt
For this thread I suppose if anyone has anything that they feel may be considered uncommon or unusual, they could share a picture but I may need to do separate threads focusing in on specific manufacturers to best compile all the variations. The very rare car brands seem to usually only have one or 2 styles of caps since they were only around 1-3 years but some of the higher production brands have a lot of slight variations from different years, models and even the factories they were assembled in. Studebaker for example, I have discovered 50+ different styles of hubcap up to 1930 alone!
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On 1/8/2024 at 11:54 AM, Walt G said:
I am listing this here rather then to RR section as it is more of a curiosity in addition to being a car part , like spark plugs are with a brand name.
It is a screw on hubcap for a Rolls Royce as is evident but the curiosity part is what series it fits and the story behind it. There are some great screw on hubcaps with names/logos etc and I am surprised no one has started a thread on that. This particular one fits a 1905 - 1907 Rolls Royce 30 Horsepower car. That was the series that just pre dated the Silver Ghost.
The specs are 4 1/4 inches diameter at the threads and 3 1/8 inches at the flats where the wrench would be fitted to tighten and loosen it.
The 30 Horsepower R-R saw a low production with nil survival rate. This hubcap was found by F.G. Wade - Palmer of the Jack O' Lantern Garage in Romsey, Hampshire England. . He found it when he was a consultant for a film company that was filming the movie Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 in Spain. Wade-Palmer was the mechanic on the set to make sure all the RR Silver Ghosts used in the film were in proper working order and stayed that way. He needed some parts to do this and went to the RR agency building that dated back to pre WWI era to see if they had any spare parts still there ( I believe this was in Barcelona) . Sure enough they did have some Ghost parts as well as this hubcap! He bought the parts as well as the hubcap and it came back to England when he was done with the film work. ( Wade-Plamer flew Hurricane fighter planes in WWII and passed away in 1986)
Mike Worthington - Williams the noted automotive historian and author got the hubcap from Wade Palmer and when I was visiting Mike at his home in Wales decades ago I saw the cap and was fascinated by it and its history. We did a trade and it came back to the USA with me and has been in my library ever since .I Iook at it every day. NO it is not for sale nor trade.
Hope you enjoyed the story.
PS have to add that the cap is in excellent condition, the black areas you see is where the plating has come off in blotches like you see. Have never seen plating do that and it was this way when I got it 40+ years ago has not gotten worse. Surface is smooth. Perhaps this is due to the many decades it sat in storage in Spain?
Hi Walt, I just created a thread here in the forums for antique threaded hubcaps
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Hello antique car enthusiast! I have been collecting antique hub caps for over 15 years now and over the past few years I have been trying to document in a catalog all the different styles, sizes and types of threaded hubcaps from 1890’s-1930’s cars, trucks, trailers and machinery. So far I have been able to collect pictures of almost 4000 different caps from over 1000 different manufacturers as well as aftermarket accessory and replacement hubcaps. I have cataloged pictures of hubcaps from other collectors, various auctions and others found on the internet and wanted to create this forum for people who are collectors or may just have interesting antique hubcaps in their possession or even on their vehicles to keep the catalog growing and for others to see and enjoy! My goal is to eventually have a public catalog with all the different styles and sizes to give collectors a good reference and for those restoring automobiles to have the information needed to obtain the correct hubcap or to have the correct dimensions to have them manufactured if originals are unobtainable. So please share some pictures of what you have!
Below are some various pictures from my personal collection of over 1400 different hubcaps consisting of over 425 different manufacturers.
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I am in need of a Houk #5 wire wheel hub nut for a 1917 Detroit Electric. It needs to be a left side cap made from cast aluminum (not brass) with the slightly shorter removal hex with beveled edges as shown in picture. A missing or non-matching emblem is fine as I already have the correct emblem. Let me know what you got! Thanks.
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Do you have any additional pictures of the side and back of the smaller F hubcap? I have never seen that cap before myself but I know a lot of collectors.
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These are definitely highwheeler hubcaps. I have an original early 1900’s Schacht highwheeler hubcap that is the same measurements with the raised square in the center. The only difference is that mine has the lettering.
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Here are 2 styles of Dixie hubcaps that I’m aware of. Yours being non-threaded with the 3 clips definitely suggests possibly a baby buggy, lawn mower or wagon of some sort. Probably 1950’s or 1960’s.
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For sale is a rare hubcap for a 1933 Auburn Model 12-165 with wood wheels. Dayton wire wheels were the wheel of choice on a vast majority Auburns in 1933 which is why this wood wheel hubcap is seldom seen. This is a very nice used hubcap with some pitting in the chrome but no cracks or dents. $120 obo.
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For sale is an NOS hubcap for a 1933 Chrysler Eight with wood wheels. This hubcap was never used but does have some surface scratches on the face and paint from storage over the years. There is also one small hairline crack on the edge which this style of hubcap was often prone to. $150 obo.
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For sale is a new old stock hubcap for a 1930 Desoto CK 6 cylinder model with wire wheels. This is a factory plated brass over steel hubcap and not an aluminum replacement. The overall diameter is 7 1/4” with a 6 1/2” clip diameter. This hubcap was not used but it does have some surface scratches from years of storage. $120 obo.
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For sale is a nice original REO hubcap from a 1930-1931 Flying Cloud model with wood wheels. The cap is in excellent condition with only a few scratches and dings from storage. No rust of any kind. $200
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This is an original Studebaker hubcap for Big Six models in 1919-1921. There was an aftermarket version of this cap had a more condensed 6 triangle design painted red with a black and sometimes red painted frame around it. The original caps have the black triangles that go to the edge of the removal hex with no frame and also have a black pin stripe on the very edge of the cap.
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44 minutes ago, alsfarms said:
?I think the snap-on cap was actually for a sidemount. At least it looks similar.... Is the Buffalo cap shown a #5
Al
I thought the snap on was from a side mount as well but one of the pictures that was posted earlier shows it being used on the drive wheels as well
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This hubcap with no hex is a snap on style cap and I have no info on what wheel manufacturer used that cap.
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On 9/30/2022 at 9:18 AM, alsfarms said:
Thanks, that is a much nicer picture than the small one I posted earlier. The conv. coupe certainly has some nice lines! Who can determine what wire wheel MFG was used on these late series Locomobile offerings? I would have thought Buffalo but these wheels are not. I can't tell if the shown 6 lugs are not lugs but drive pins as in Houk and Hayes, which means the cap is what fixes the wheel to the hub. Or if the lugs are in fact lug bolts that retain the wheel which means the hub cap is just a cap. More information is requested if anyone knows or has experience.
Al
Locomobile used wire wheels from Houk, Buffalo and Dayton. Here are a few pictures of what those hubcap styles look like.
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I would be interested in this aftermarket replacement cap. I’m trying to collect all the variations.
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I will take this if still available
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AGMCO stands for aluminum goods manufacturing company which was the primary manufacturer of most OEM pressed aluminum hubcaps from the mid to late 1920’s.
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For sale or trade is an aluminum knock off style gas cap from a 1920’s DuPont automobile. I’m not sure of all the years or models this was used but I have seen it on a 1929 Model G. I’m asking $500 obo or I would trade for a nice or a few nice pre 1930 threaded hubcaps for my collection if its a style need.
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Does anyone know what these parts are for? I got them in a box of Buffalo and Houk parts and I have never seen these. They are cast aluminum and I am thinking they might be spare wheel spacers of some sort. Part number on the flat plates is B5077, and the other pieces have B2035A.
I also have a Houk #5 emblem that has a hole in the middle. It doesn’t look cut out and there is a boarder around the hole so it looks like it was originally this way. Any ideas what it’s for?
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I have a lot of different antique hubcaps for sale currently on eBay and many many more to come if anyone is in need. You can see everything currently at the link below and if there if there is anything that interest you feel free to make an offer! https://www.ebay.com/usr/hubcap-collector