Model 72 and 75 hubcap background colors

[BlueDevil]

What color is the ring and script C background supposed to be? 

I have seen red and black, ah U of Georgia colors

[BlueDevil]

BTW, I have wood wheels on the 72 and wires on the 75

[Gunsmoke]

With Chrysler's in that era coming in 10 or so different colors, my guess is that all hubcap "background/highlight" colors would be black, since it would complement any color scheme. Red would clash with several.

[lozrocks]

I don't know about the 72.

The 75 had no colours on the wood wheel hub cap. I have seen many cars with 'decorated' caps in both red and black, but to my knowledge they were originally unpainted.

[31 LaSalle]

The hub caps on my 72 convertible coupe highlighted in black

 

[Narve N]

Back in 1981 I bought a set of NOS wooden wheel caps from Burchill Antique Auto Parts for my Series 65 Touring restoration, these had red paint in the circle outside the Chrysler crest. The caps were never used and are now on a Series 75 Roadster with wooden wheels.

[keiser31]

I always thought that the red background was on the cars with Red Head engines. I could be wrong.

[viv w]

I bought some NOS wood wheel caps from Rob Burchill some years ago they are filled in with original black paint as shown in the below picture of my restored 26 series G70 wheels below. The hubcap shown here still has factory paint

 

I also have a series 62 with wire wheels and according to the parts book the series 62 and 72 had the same wheels and caps. I saw some NOS caps for series 62/72 for sale on ebay a few months back and they had factory black paint on them, I downloaded the ebay picture below for future reference.

 

I would think black was a standard color from the factory. Maybe different colors were used on Redhead cars or perhaps on custom cars.

By the way , even on the wood wheel caps there is areas where the paint is imperfect or has feathering on the edges, I guess with mass production there were blemishes that needed a bit of careful finishing,

Edited June 28, 2023 by viv w
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[lozrocks]

Sorry didn't read the wire wheel part for the 75.

I have two different caps for the 75. The aluminium caps that I have all have two red rings.

The stainless steel caps are all unpainted. Now that could be because the paint has worn off I'm not sure.