Hubcap Game Part EIGHT

Steve digs out another batch of familiar - and not so familiar - hub caps for discussion and laughs.

[@garymckee448]

I think that old Chevrolet panel truck is a door to a different dimension where there's nothing but hubcaps 😆

[@lilmike2710]

Likely 50k worth of old vintage hubcaps in there 😆

[@UberLummox]

The more you pull out, more keep multiplying!

[@Hotlog69]

That's what happened to my wheel covers!

[@samholdsworth420]

Like Narnia

[@jeffclark2725]

Well said,Do not try to adjust your set,

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Another great hubcaps video! Man Steve is a master of automotive history knowledge!👌😎👍

[@drdean9913]

Thanks Steve. Enjoy your videos with my morning coffee

[@SteveMagnante]

Glad you like them!

[@LongIslandMopars]

I think it would be amazing to have a museum that houses all the tooling that was used to stamp these out.

[@karlx-1]

I LOVE the hubcap game!! I wish the Ford 7 litre caps would be made into aluminum wheels.

[@ventura455]

Hubcap videos ROCK

[@RLTango]

Awesome insight! My dad put the Fratzog hub caps shown here on my 1965 Dodge Coronet Convertible when we rebuilt it in the 1990's. I never appreciated the desing as a turbine blade inlet. I've had to chase them down a few times when they pop off on bumps.

[@daynadiggle8169]

Back in the day there were two wheel cover businesses near where I live that made their living selling rims and covers . The biggest one was called HUBCAP WORLD . Both long gone now .

[@Jupitermustangmike]

My hometown made them eagle flag toppers at the foundry up the street ✌

[@Loonytunes1961]

Greetings from Cincinnati, Ohio✌️

[@ericesterby2895]

The wheel cover that had you stumped is from a 1959 Buick Electra 225. That’s what the tacked-on four-bar hub signifies.

[@lilmike2710]

They had Buicks in 1859? 🤣

[@ericesterby2895]

@@lilmike2710 Fat fingers. I corrected it. Thanks. 👍

[@markchandler90]

Time stamp 1:45 is 1959 Buick Electra

[@The_R-n-I_Guy]

We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you soon

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

👍👍👍👍

[@jimmccoskey8253]

I believe that wheel cover with the ring and 4 bar spinner is from a '60 Buick Electra. Thanks for all the videos...

[@mcqueenfanman]

1:30 I'm thinking that this came off a car named after an airplane. Edsel Corsair?

[@scottbogfoot]

My phone number in the 70s-80s had a bunch of 8's, 9's & 0's in it.... dialing our number sucked! 😂😂😂

[@robviousobviously5757]

ours ended in 9 9.. lol

[@The_R-n-I_Guy]

I love this series. then again I love to listen to the human encyclopedia that is Steve Magnate no matter what you're talking about. learning is fun. I wish I had the same attitude in school though

[@Novaman66]

62 Oldsmobile “Starfire” mystery olds cover.

[@marklarson9436]

We had a guy outside of town that collected hubcaps. The general consensus back in the day was that he was crazy. I'm thinking he was just ahead of him time. Cool stuff.

[@danh2134]

If he doesn't have an ebay store link then yes he's crazy

[@jamesblair9614]

That first wheel cover, if it’s 15”, I believe it was also used on a handful of 67 Mustangs, if the car was ordered with a special performance handling package. I think the price on the package was high enough to discourage most people from considering it. The package was used on Shelby’s, I don’t know if it was some or all. If I’m wrong, I’m sure I’ll be hearing from all the Ford guys.

[@danesderelicts]

Looks like you're running laps up there!

[@kennethmoore9475]

Nice video

[@berniebass3575]

Love it!!!!👍✌️

[@johngranato2673]

Time to "cap" the series

[@jerryroubos4609]

The hubcap that you were not sure about but thought might be a Mercury hubcap. Actually that hubcap was from a 1959 Buick Electra 225, optional on other 1959 Buicks.

[@markchandler90]

Time 1:45 is 1959 Buick Electra,

[@jeffclark2725]

A big wall is needed to put these up for display,its a shame to be stacked up like firewood in a van

[@The_R-n-I_Guy]

Olds Jetfire?

[@bluehillcemetery2887]

Morning fellow hubcap enthusiasts

[@SteveMagnante]

Morning!

[@Novaman66]

Steve, Do they make you put the caps back in the van later? LOL

[@mikechurch2359]

A few days ago I listened to Mike joy on dale Jr podcast he talked about Steve I ask them to bring Steve on there podcast lol

[@SteveMagnante]

Hi mike, I saw Mike on the Dale Jr. podcast. WOW I wouldn't have had a clue if folks didn't point it out to me. Mike's a great guy and I'm honored to work with him. my only complaint is that I am not a fan of the name "Doctor Datecode" with reference to me. I didn't create it and always say I'm not an expert. Rather I'm a fairly serious enthusiast. The "experts" are the guys and gals that DESIGNED and BUILT and SOLD and SERVICED these vehicles. I wish I had some way of tapping into some great "collective consciousness" so I could interview them in real time and have them tell me what's cool about whatever it is I'm checking into. But nope. I have to research the vehicles and hope I can relate some detail that "speaks loudly" but nobody seems to pay attention to. That's the joy of this work (no Mike Joy pun intended here). Anyhoo, its unfortunate that many of the EXPERTS that designed / built / sold / serviced these cars are long gone. This is why I listen to today's auto designers whenever I have the chance! -Steve Magnante

[@79USA1]

7:26 is 1960 Oldsmobile full size deluxe wheel cover. The wheel cover requires 5 spring clips that attach at the wheel edge (Where balance weights attach) to hold the wheel cover to the wheel. Neat fact is there is no valve stem hole in the cover until 1961 which attached the same way. to adjust the tire pressure you pulled the wheel cover forward then snapped it back after service.

[@61rampy65]

I could very well be wrong here, but wasn't Oldsmobile's "muscle car" for 62 the Starfire? I think I recall the Jetstar being the low dollar entry level Olds. Then later they had the Jetstar 1. I'm not sure how Olds itself didn't get confused back in those days.

[@1967davethewave]

There used to be a junkyard in my home town with a really nice owner. He was letting my friend and me look through his huge pile of hubcaps because I lost one off my dad's '65 Galaxy and wanted to replace it. My buddy found a set of 4 Chevy hubcaps that said "SS 396" on the centers. They were very high quality so I assume they were O.E. The guy at the yard wanted $40 bucks for them and to a couple of 16 year olds in 1984 that was too much to spend. I wish I would have bought them though. I've never seen another set.

[@SteveMagnante]

Hello 1967davethewave, those were probably 14-inch full wheel covers with a cone-like shape and half-dollar-ish sized plastic center medallion, right? Those were the 1968 optional Chevelle SS396 Chevelle Malibu wheel covers. They are somewhat uncommon in my experience but do show up at the occasional Chevelle show / meet on a car whose owner doesn't want to run the predictable 14-inch Rally Wheel. They are pretty cool, i agree. Another oddity / variation is the 1968-only practice of Chevrolet to fit "some" Chevelle Super Sports with front side marker emblems that read "SS396" in a similar stacked letters-atop-numbers layout (like your SS396 hub cap logos looked) and others with a more basic "396" in the same spot. It's good hearing from viewers about things like this because it spurs my memory. Thanks again for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante

[@1967davethewave]

@@SteveMagnante I really don't know if they were 14's but I assume they were and yes they were stacked like you said. I never realized how much effort went into hub caps, Thanks for the insight!!!!

[@kennethreiver985]

The second cap is I think 61 or 62 Buick Full size car

[@brianyoung9014]

63 falcon could have 260 V8

[@mattfarahsmillionmilelexus]

The Falcon cap is a '61-early '62 Futura.

[@johnwjr2905]

Steve. 59 or 60 Buick fo the cover stumping you

[@johnh8917]

I appreciate you giving life to these wheel covers. No one gives a shit about them anymore. All aluminum anymore. I think they gave a car it's identity. Some are pretty classy!

[@danh2134]

Aluminum wheels are better looking and functional. Wheel covers are an extra step in removing and installing tires , come off when hitting bumps/pot holes and when you needed to replace to wheel cover no one had it in stock

[@dowen1511]

Do it up to 10 parts I reckon 👍?

[@angeloavanti2538]

Give me flipper bars or give me death.😎

[@Mercmad]

What's a telephone dial ?😅😅

[@johnh8917]

😂😂😂

[@kennethreiver985]

The Olds cap is I think is a 59 has a weird setup where valve stem is hidden and had long clips that fasten it to rim . You snap up hub cap to put air in tires . They like to catch your fingers when installing them . Ask me how I know .

[@russell11fitzgerald]

Do you have any hubcaps from a 1967 Mercury Monterey with the glass inserts

[@taylorlengyel]

That one at stumped you is a 1959 Buick hubcap

[@michael14420]

My Father had those on his 65 New Yorker, not sure if they were also offered on a Newport. Still have 2 of them, the other 2 fell of on the Gowanus on his way to work in RedHook

[@Jupitermustangmike]

Falcoons

[@MichaelandCathy1999]

6:00 a.m. Montreal Coffee Junkyard Crawl That’s the way to start the day. 😂👍🇨🇦

[@Jupitermustangmike]

8th and last aw it's been great thanks man hahaha

[@benpluta6187]

The second one is a 59 Buick

[@darrenbrisson4336]

Mags you should buy and sell that 7 liter hubcap to Jay Leno he has one

[@vlady8me]

I think the movie Ben Hur had a a huge impact on hub caps. Came out in 1959.

[@MicroSoftner]

Haha getting rocks in the hubcaps drivng down the road!

[@Funtimes670]

Steve, have you ever been tested for a photographic memory? You can recall details of what you have seen in your life in a very precise way.

[@Fony_turgeson]

maybe when your done with the rims you put them back in the van to further preserve them?

[@johnwelsh4054]

The Falcon hubcap is exactly like the one's that was on grandma's 62 Falcon Futura that she bought new in the fall of 61. It was black with red vinyl interior, bucket seats, center console,all the knobs and stearing wheel were white,170 special six and Ford-o-matic the car I learned to drive in 1971.

[@torryoulund3360]

Find a moon and chrome ring, big in my day

[@tomthumb4767]

Hope you don't put a cap on this series anytime soon .

[@lilmike2710]

@ 1:30. That's a 1959 Buick Electra hubcap. I looked at countless Mercury hubcaps and they all looked reasonably close. Another commenter also pointed out it's true origin. 1959 Buick Electra. 😉 *Edit* : I misspelled "Buick". No such thing as a 1959 "Buck" Electra.

[@SteveMagnante]

You are correct

[@SuperOperator4]

Good stuff!

[@lonnyjaw]

Yeah Steve, around '85 I had a '78 Pontiac Sunbird. It was just the OPPOSITE of what we all know and love about Pontiac! What a lemon. It had those exact wheel covers too. It was a sad chapter of my car ownership history.

[@SteveMagnante]

Thanks for sharing

[@CR7659]

Buick, Olds and Pontiac all about 1953 had a similar cap to the one at about 3:00 - a factory phony wire wheel cap. The center was larger. They're fairly rare; I found one about 15 years ago and it went to Australia on eBay. It was a '53 Buick cap. If I remember right the center piece could be changed for an Olds or Pontiac. The pictured cap must be an early one, they're heavy and must have come off easily, as GM added a bolt into a cup that was held on by three flanged lugnuts. It also was an anti-theft deal as they used a key socket to go on and off. I did buy a legit '53 Skylark in rough shape out of the same yard but that's another story. 6:30-ish yes '52 Buick

[@randyauer7303]

Good stuff to know

[@darvader8242]

Not merc. 59buick

[@dustydon6419]

Steve I love what you do. It would be great if you had Dian Parkenson from The Price is Right ‘70’s era to model these hub caps. No offense intended but she’s prettier than you

[@nickbruni8041]

🤘🏼

[@steveib724]

Like going to boces with Steve lol 😆

[@UnfinishedProjectDartSport]

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