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Hub Caps - practical uses as well as Garage decorations

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Searched to see if there was a thread to Hub Caps ... many of which serve a practical purpose on autos/trucks.. but I know I have a few hanging around the garage .. as decorations, reminders of the past, estate sale finds, or remainders of cars long gone but once paid for by your's truly....

Here is an estate find. I cannot find the make / manufacture after some Google searching for the winged radiator (best I can tell), micrometer upper left, triangle upper right, and maybe a Genie lamp in the upper middle ... but cannot make out much more..... Any idea who's this is? Found it this past weekend and got it for a buck... Not sure if valuable, worth cleaning up and hanging on the wall, or ??

Regardless.. let's see the one's you have handing around the garage / shop.... and stories that go with them...

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Didn't take this picture to show the hubcap but you can see it/them.

I have three spares hanging on the garage wall I had to buy in order to get the one I needed to match the '51-'52 Chevy car caps that were on my old '46 Chevy truck which had lost one.
 

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Re: the first images... the Columbia Motor Car Company (Hartford, Connecticut) had a micrometer and calipers as part of their logo, but no wings from what I can find... haven't seen any other manufacturer use a micrometer in their logo!
 
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Old dog dish hubcaps were used as fence post covers so the rain would not rot and birds would not perch, I cringe when I see old vw hubcaps like that.
 
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Dennis Leigh Henry said:
Searched to see if there was a thread to Hub Caps ... many of which serve a practical purpose on autos/trucks.. but I know I have a few hanging around the garage .. as decorations, reminders of the past, estate sale finds, or remainders of cars long gone but once paid for by your's truly....

Here is an estate find. I cannot find the make / manufacture after some Google searching for the winged radiator (best I can tell), micrometer upper left, triangle upper right, and maybe a Genie lamp in the upper middle ... but cannot make out much more..... Any idea who's this is? Found it this past weekend and got it for a buck... Not sure if valuable, worth cleaning up and hanging on the wall, or ??

Regardless.. let's see the one's you have handing around the garage / shop.... and stories that go with them...

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Your cap in the picture is an Oldsmobile hubcap from the early 1930's , I'd say 1934 being the latest year possible.
 
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Your cap in the picture is an Oldsmobile hubcap from the early 1930's , I'd say 1934 being the latest year possible.
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I found these pictures (both were snips from eBay adds) .. not specific to any particular period.. but they have the logo I appear to have..

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Thanks Ancient Iron for the tip... seems like my mystery is over.. :thumbup:
 
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I have a few extras I need to do something with.....
 

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When Interstate 5 was built in the late 1950s, it cut my grandparents' farm into two (they had to move the chicken coop over). So on the 1.5 miles of the farm along the freeway, my grandfather collected quite the assortment of wheel covers over the decades since.

As a kid, I had about a half-dozen wheel covers on rotation hanging up in my bedroom, and I didn't even know what cars they went to or how valuable some of them came to be until after I had gotten rid of them (eg 1962 Impala SS "spinner" in near mint condition). One cover that had a bad plastic center - I removed that, installed a round plate and put a lamp gooseneck out of it, and made it into a reading light so I could read books in bed at night.
 
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My Grandfather was a tinkerer by nature, machinist by trade. He worked for Packard out of Cleveland for a short time. Made a number of things from Packard parts. This lamp was a pair, my cousin still ha the other.
 

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They make great helmets for when the sky is falling.... Little velcro and a couple rivets.

The next war the french get into could produce a market for them

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Years ago here in the northern Detroit suburbs a newly divorced single mom needed to make money. So she started collecting hubcaps off the freeways and where ever she found them. Ultimately she was able to open a store. Twenty years later with here son now heading off to college she sold the business. A cool million in her pocket for retirement and twenty years of good living.
Can’t get much more practical use than that.
 
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I started as a apprentice in 1970 at a VW dealership so everything was air cooled,did a lot of motors,used the hub caps to hold screws,bolts,nuts as you dismantled motor.
 
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Dennis Leigh Henry said:
I found these pictures (both were snips from eBay adds) .. not specific to any particular period.. but they have the logo I appear to have..

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Thanks Ancient Iron for the tip... seems like my mystery is over.. :thumbup:
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I looked through my archives and found that those caps are probably 1932 or older ( I couldn't get a close up as to all the details) But they are definitely Oldsmobile.
Cool find I would just hang them on my garage wall. My father had a hubcap from a 1930 Chevy on our garage wall when I was a kid.
 
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Ancient Iron said:
I looked through my archives and found that those caps are probably 1932 or older ( I couldn't get a close up as to all the details) But they are definitely Oldsmobile.
Cool find I would just hang them on my garage wall. My father had a hubcap from a 1930 Chevy on our garage wall when I was a kid.
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Now... to find the rest of the car to go with it.....

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RegeSullivan said:
My Grandfather was a tinkerer by nature, machinist by trade. He worked for Packard out of Cleveland for a short time. Made a number of things from Packard parts. This lamp was a pair, my cousin still ha the other.
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your grand dad left you an awesome remembrance of him!
 
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