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Hubcaps revisited - Pics 200

posted by  scorron on  Wed Aug 2 10:32 CST 2006
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OK, diggit, fellow Bricksters. Remember when I was asking where I could get trim rings and hub caps and complaining bitterly that repros weren't made? No? Well I did. Anyway...

Found a set of rings and caps off of a guys '83 245 on eBay for sale, starting bid - $4. I bid. I won. They came.

Despite being packaged horribly after paying $14 for shipping, I'm pretty happy with the purchase because the trim rings were in real good shape, one hub cap was perfect, two decent, and only one trashed. I also discovered, much to my happinessity, that the trim rings are not in fact chrome plated, but stainless. Sweet. For the less metallurgically inclined, that means I can hammer/sand/polish as much as I need to to make them look like new (if I so choose) without going through chrome to brass plating or steel.

So I polished up two rings and two caps and stuck 'em on my car - which do you think looks better? Caps or covers? (I know, I know, it needs washed/waxed, etc. and the wheels need a coat of black paint if I'm gonna use the caps)




The photo site I use has reduced the quality it would seem, to the point that the caps look kinda grainy, but in real life, I've mirror polished them quite well. Finsihed up with jewelers rouge, if it's good enough for 24k gold I guess it's almost good enough for a Volvo.

Any thoughts? Should I repaint the center caps or mirror polish? Thanks for the indulgence.






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