Thread: A little piece of history.

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Beautiful cars and a nice history. The thing that jumps out at me that I had forgotten was that at one time, say in 1953-1956 chromed steel wheels were the ultimate before mags were widely available. Today you seldom see chromed steel wheels. My taste goes further back to the small cap type painted wheels so for me nostalgia is painted steel wheels with small caps like 1940 again (distant memories) but I have to admit I still have a fond place in my auto-heart for '56 Olds Fiesta wheel covers and eventually I may sucumb to retro Fiesta covers but chromed steelies were "IT" in the early fifties, as I recall. In one of the other threads someone asked if the roadster in the new Indiana Jones movie should have had a flathead instead of what looks like a SBC, but the dateline was 1957 so it would have been possible to have a SBC in a deuce roadster in 1957, but there were very few and there were still many flatheads then. The reason I mention this is because that roadster had no hubcaps on steel wheels but they were painted. A sort of growing up maturing process was related to thinking chromed steel wheels were the ultimate and then finding that if they were scratched the scratches would rust! Just some rambling "history".

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

My '52 Chevy had painted, reversed-rim steelies with Moons, then later chrome "spiders" with beauty rings, and finally 56 Olds Fiesta caps.

Peabody . . . let's get in the Wayback machine . . .

My '55 Ford had '57 Dodge Lancer wheel covers.

For my 55 Ford I chiseled off the rivets that held the rims on the wheel centers, turned them around and welded them including the rivet holes ( tubeless tires were becoming the norm this was in 59-60 ) put 820-15s on back, cut the front coils a couple of loops and had some lean into it---course the valve stems were then on the inside !!!!Then I took out my dual quad Y-block and put in an E475 Edsel that I cut the firewall out and set engine back into dash 10% of whatever the wheel base was so I could run gas classes

Today-------


Jerry

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

That was Bakersfield, probably 68 or 69 ( going by Linda's age/looks)

actually i was thinking 66' when he beat warrern & coburn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dzz7EMl4P8