Love watching your hubcap series. I worked for Goodyear starting in 1971 for 8 years (was 16). I started as a tire changer. On almost every wheel cover, I still remember, at 67, how those came off and how to put back on. The worst was full size 1970's Cadillacs with the hundred or more tiny fingers that clipped inside the outer wheel edge. Most fender skirts were also a pain to take off
I gotta tell you! I have learned so much about hubcaps and wheel covers with Steve! That is making me start my own collection of them!👋😂👌👍great stuff Steve!
Still had one in these parts 10 or 12 yrs ago but it was on the other side of town a part ought not be in unless I have a reason and sight seeing isn’t a good enough reason 😳 so don’t know if it’s still there 🤷♂️
Remember seeing the bumper repair places??? When I was a kid, there was one in nearby Trotwood Ohio. It was a fenced in lot with a building, and with bumpers stacked six feet high all over the yard. I guess they straightened them there, and I'm pretty sure they did chroming, because my buddy had his bike frame chromed, and he told me it was done in Trotwood. I'm guessing most of those places were gone by the mid 1990s...
The front wheel covers always have grease in them because that’s where mechanics set the bearings down when pulling the rotors or drums off for service.
I enjoy watching this with my morning coffee 😂 I just love hub caps always have lol. Always thought I would have fence around my property covered in every kind of hub cap I could find . thanks Steve for comming up with such a fun segment of your shows 👍☺ .
When I see grease inside a hubcap, I figure someone did like I do and when doing wheel bearing work, and placed the seal/bearings/nut/washer/cotter pin and grease cap in the hubcap laying right there on the ground while working. Especially if the grease in the hubcap is all in one place. Now, if it's flung all around pretty evenly, I figure that was grease escaping from the grease cap, or someone left the grease cap off entirely.....which I have seen FAR too many times! LOL. Great show, man! Thank you, and keep up the awesome work!
I've always thought that the early 60's wheels weren't supposed to look like mags as much as they were to look like jet engine turbines, The new jet age was all the rage back then.
The Ford Falcon wheel cover was equipped on standard on Fairlane, Torino, 14" wheels. The Ford crest is in the center section until they switched to the Blue Oval branding. I'd be interested to see if you can pull out a Ford dog dish/poverty cap from the mid to late `60s.
These gave me an idea for a video episode, covering all the strange heralds and crests carmakers invented and the meanings behind them. The crest on the 63 Chrysler Newport for example was always a strange looking oddity. Thanks again Steve. 👍
10:19 The red white and blue centers were used on the Comet S22 and on the full size S55, with the bigger wheel cover of course. My 1963 S55 coupe had those covers on it.
Steve had trolled us with that thing for a couple weeks before my dumb ass realized that he was moving it around from car to car. 😂 Took me I don't know how many episodes before I figured out that he's been moving the thing around, trolling us with it.
I never in my life saw myself watching 10 to 15 minutes of Hubcap tuition :-) Yet here I am 9 episodes later. Alloy wheels next? Lots of interesting info there Steve.
Steve. The Plymouth hubcap was from the 64 fury’s but not the sport fury. The 64 sport fury had a spinner added to that exact hubcap. 63 was totally different
If I didn't know you and saw you and diesel head coming out of the woods covered in sweat and grease I'd grab the kids and flee! Tune in next week to see if Diesel Head & Steve finally get stumped on the Hub Cap Game! Final note in the 60s we called all wheel covers hubcaps and the little ones either dog dish or moon caps depending on the style. Cheers 🇨🇦
I've always thought that design on the Ford Fairlane cap looked like a cartoon raccoon face, even as a kid I was a pretty hardcore Mopar guy but thought any Ford with that emblem was kinda cool
Fun fact-that mid-50s Mercury cap was repurposed with a spinner in the center as the 1963-64 full sized Ford when equipped with a 427. They had 15" wheels as opposed to 14", and needed a cost-effective cover for such small volume.
Hello roger628, good call on the Ford 427 wheel covers. now that you say it I recognize the Mercury caps they used as the basis! Speaking of 427 wheels, as you know - like 1965 Shelby GT350 rims, they are special and have flat-edge slots where the center spider meets the wheel hoop - not the 90-degree flange seen on other steel wheels. Crazy fact: at Bandimere Drag Strip in Colorado (home of the NHRA Mile High Nats) there is a beer trailer that sits on FOUR 15x6 wheels that are the same as (early '63 406) 427 Galaxie 427 and '65 GT350 wheels! I know that certain heavy duty welding trailers also are known by FE fanatics to have been assembled with these very specific steel wheels. Steel wheels are a whole world of detail unto themselves! Perhaps a Wheel Game in the future? Bernardston Auto Wrecking does have a TON of steelies and O.E. styled steel rims! Thanks again for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
Remember years ago in a close suburb of Detroit. A place called Sid Savage they had thousands literally of hub caps and wheel covers. They would take cash or trades for them. Went there many times for missing ones on cars or complete sets. Much better than the Chinese made cheap ones today at auto parts shops
Hi Steve, FYI ... I had a 1964 R Galaxie 500 XL. The 427 passenger model had 15 inch wheels with special hubcaps (standard Galaxie had 14" wheels). They were basically a 50's style 15" mercury hubcap like you had with a spinner added to the center. You can tel the real 427 hubcap when you turn it over and there is no mercury head embossed.
Pretty sure not Edsel Hub cap similar but the Edsel emblem has a rounded top and the lines inside the emblem is continuous. I had a 1959. they had dog dishes on base that your and a full cover as an option and a same cover with spinner on the top of the line cars. The olds 98 is right on the mark I had a 71 with those covers
Looks like you're working hard enough to get dirty👍....If you have to get dirty to keep these great videos coming a name change might be in order.....junkyard 'roll'🤣
About the tri-colour Mercury cover. That bears a slight resemblance to the Mercedes-Benz Tri-star. Could it be that MB issued a cease and desist letter citing trademark infringement? It's a stretch of the imagination to think anyone could mistake the two but legal departments love jumping on things like this.
There was a bend in the road that people took too fast by my buddies house as a kid. His dad filled 2 walls in his shop with all the wheel covers that flew / rolled off the corner into his yard.
Oddly enough I kinda like the Edsel 🤷♂️ though I can’t remember why it didn’t get no traction 🤪 but at this date I’ll take anything from the 60’s n before 😂 .. funny thing I never gave hubcaps a second thought , back in the day I dented so many changing tires doing brake jobs etc .. lean back give it a kick to get that last clip / notch to click in 🤪🙄 …
I had always heard the Edsel looked like a Pontiac sucking on a lemon , not the Oldsmobile , I had always assumed it was because of the treatment Pontiac's center grill lol I could be wrong
KT Keller was ahead of his time. Crossovers are just going back to the high roofline bodystyle of the 30s and 40s, before everyone fell for the lower longer wider bodystyle that GM went with in the 50s.
Ok I'm going to be an old man here. Kids these days, don't about caps, have never rolled down a car window, don't know how to drive stick shift... My first car I owned was in in college a Dodge Omni GLH in red, a 5 speed. I miss that car. Cheers from Milwaukee Wisconsin 🇺🇲🧀🍻
Hello Gerald Stephens, Thanks for watching. I do the Hubcap Game once every 6 videos and most viewers enjoy the game by freezing / pausing their video feed and trying to guess what I'll say and what they think I'll say versus what's CORRECT. I can't promise I can name them all but as a car crazed kid growing up in the 1970 - 1980 time frame, I saw most of these wheel covers in motion on cars passing in traffic. I understand that some viewers prefer my Junkyard Crawl videos to focus on actual vehicles and that's what the majority do. But I still have at least another 100 wheel covers in that van and I just know there's a Tucker wheel cover in there some place. I just have to keep digging - once a week. Please do stay tuned. Regardless, Thanks for writing. -Steve Magnante
Love watching your hubcap series. I worked for Goodyear starting in 1971 for 8 years (was 16). I started as a tire changer. On almost every wheel cover, I still remember, at 67, how those came off and how to put back on. The worst was full size 1970's Cadillacs with the hundred or more tiny fingers that clipped inside the outer wheel edge. Most fender skirts were also a pain to take off
That's a lot of hubcaps😁 I'm sure there are some worth a pretty penny in that mess! 🙂🇺🇸✌🏼
Maybe even worth a whole dime.
@@richsackett3423 possibly even a quarter
I think so too!
I gotta tell you! I have learned so much about hubcaps and wheel covers with Steve! That is making me start my own collection of them!👋😂👌👍great stuff Steve!
Hard to believe how complex some of these are. Great info, Steve!!!
Thanks for watching!
I think it's time to start selling the Junkyard Crawl - Deer Head T - shirts , Steve ! CRAWL ON .
id buy a few shirts lol
@@MrR6guy I'd pay extra for Steve's autograph on the shirt !
Love the Hubcap game. Be well.❤
A couple of pretty rare ones in this one. You'd be hard pressed to find any DeSoto hubcaps. The mercury comet ones as well.
Time stamp 3:10 is 1955 Chrysler Windsor NOT Edsel. Corolla is 1979 Datsun 210.
Well done once again steve! Looking forward to the tenth installment! Take care and crawl on!
Coming soon!
I miss those roadside hub cap dealers i used to see as a kid and young adult back in the 60s and 70s and 80's..
Still had one in these parts 10 or 12 yrs ago but it was on the other side of town a part ought not be in unless I have a reason and sight seeing isn’t a good enough reason 😳 so don’t know if it’s still there 🤷♂️
Remember seeing the bumper repair places???
When I was a kid, there was one in nearby Trotwood Ohio. It was a fenced in lot with a building, and with bumpers stacked six feet high all over the yard. I guess they straightened them there, and I'm pretty sure they did chroming, because my buddy had his bike frame chromed, and he told me it was done in Trotwood. I'm guessing most of those places were gone by the mid 1990s...
The front wheel covers always have grease in them because that’s where mechanics set the bearings down when pulling the rotors or drums off for service.
I enjoy watching this with my morning coffee 😂 I just love hub caps always have lol. Always thought I would have fence around my property covered in every kind of hub cap I could find . thanks Steve for comming up with such a fun segment of your shows 👍☺ .
Thanks for watching!
Could almost do this carborators if ya found a pick up box of them .😂
5:29 I had those wheel covers on my 1968 LeSabre but with a different center. I think the 1967 covers were different.
When I see grease inside a hubcap, I figure someone did like I do and when doing wheel bearing work, and placed the seal/bearings/nut/washer/cotter pin and grease cap in the hubcap laying right there on the ground while working. Especially if the grease in the hubcap is all in one place. Now, if it's flung all around pretty evenly, I figure that was grease escaping from the grease cap, or someone left the grease cap off entirely.....which I have seen FAR too many times! LOL. Great show, man! Thank you, and keep up the awesome work!
Thanks Steve! Love these videos!!
The Mercury hubcap at the end is for a Comet S-22. The red white and blue was also for the S-55 Monterey. The top of the line.
I've always thought that the early 60's wheels weren't supposed to look like mags as much as they were to look like jet engine turbines, The new jet age was all the rage back then.
The Ford Falcon wheel cover was equipped on standard on Fairlane, Torino, 14" wheels. The Ford crest is in the center section until they switched to the Blue Oval branding. I'd be interested to see if you can pull out a Ford dog dish/poverty cap from the mid to late `60s.
Great hubcap knowledge gotta take a ride up there someday.
Thank you Steve
Keep them coming Steve
Another great video Steve professor get well soon
These gave me an idea for a video episode, covering all the strange heralds and crests carmakers invented and the meanings behind them. The crest on the 63 Chrysler Newport for example was always a strange looking oddity. Thanks again Steve. 👍
Cool idea!
So many small details pyt into hubcaps,all the mercury paint,Buick wildcats, Plymouth symbols these are art anymore, thumbs up
Best show ever!
10:19 The red white and blue centers were used on the Comet S22 and on the full size S55, with the bigger wheel cover of course. My 1963 S55 coupe had those covers on it.
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you soon
Steve, I love the way you dig in at the junk yard...grease on your hands up to your elbows and the back of your shirt. You obviously enjoy your work!
Love it
Excellent,coffee caps and a myopic deer head!
Oh yes!
Rudolph Diesel 👍 😳 never knew he had a name 😎
For the Hubcap Game, i thought Buck Woolery would've been a great name?
Steve had trolled us with that thing for a couple weeks before my dumb ass realized that he was moving it around from car to car. 😂 Took me I don't know how many episodes before I figured out that he's been moving the thing around, trolling us with it.
@@feelinfine1973 😂😂 👍 we have a winner! Eggcellent Batman!!!
@@lilmike2710 hahaha 👍 I like it makes me laugh open trunk hood van doors etc and there he is 🤦♂️😎 ole Rudolph Diesel Head 😀
Get well Steve!!!
I never in my life saw myself watching 10 to 15 minutes of Hubcap tuition :-) Yet here I am 9 episodes later. Alloy wheels next? Lots of interesting info there Steve.
Right on!
I get sad everytime you say " ok, 1final hubcap". Lol love this series
Good deal there Steve, love the hubcap game!
No Rudolph has that "Deer in the headlights look."
Glad to see Rudy back. Ditto on the T shirt
I bet this junkyard is getting more action since Steve has been doing his show there.
Steve. The Plymouth hubcap was from the 64 fury’s but not the sport fury. The 64 sport fury had a spinner added to that exact hubcap. 63 was totally different
Believe it or not that Buick cover was standard on GS models in 70. Very rarely seen though.
If I didn't know you and saw you and diesel head coming out of the woods covered in sweat and grease I'd grab the kids and flee!
Tune in next week to see if Diesel Head & Steve finally get stumped on the Hub Cap Game!
Final note in the 60s we called all wheel covers hubcaps and the little ones either dog dish or moon caps depending on the style. Cheers 🇨🇦
I've always thought that design on the Ford Fairlane cap looked like a cartoon raccoon face, even as a kid I was a pretty hardcore Mopar guy but thought any Ford with that emblem was kinda cool
Fun fact-that mid-50s Mercury cap was repurposed with a spinner in the center as the 1963-64 full sized Ford
when equipped with a 427. They had 15" wheels as opposed to 14", and needed a cost-effective cover for such small volume.
Hello roger628, good call on the Ford 427 wheel covers. now that you say it I recognize the Mercury caps they used as the basis! Speaking of 427 wheels, as you know - like 1965 Shelby GT350 rims, they are special and have flat-edge slots where the center spider meets the wheel hoop - not the 90-degree flange seen on other steel wheels. Crazy fact: at Bandimere Drag Strip in Colorado (home of the NHRA Mile High Nats) there is a beer trailer that sits on FOUR 15x6 wheels that are the same as (early '63 406) 427 Galaxie 427 and '65 GT350 wheels! I know that certain heavy duty welding trailers also are known by FE fanatics to have been assembled with these very specific steel wheels. Steel wheels are a whole world of detail unto themselves! Perhaps a Wheel Game in the future? Bernardston Auto Wrecking does have a TON of steelies and O.E. styled steel rims! Thanks again for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
Can't wait till the tenth installment!
I wonder if Steve gets any callouses on his finger or knuckle from dinging those caps!
Remember years ago in a close suburb of Detroit. A place called Sid Savage they had thousands literally of hub caps and wheel covers. They would take cash or trades for them. Went there many times for missing ones on cars or complete sets. Much better than the Chinese made cheap ones today at auto parts shops
OMG I was jonsing for more hub caps !!!!
My dad has a set of those Biscayne hubcaps.
Hi Steve, FYI ... I had a 1964 R Galaxie 500 XL. The 427 passenger model had 15 inch wheels with special hubcaps (standard Galaxie had 14" wheels). They were basically a 50's style 15" mercury hubcap like you had with a spinner added to the center. You can tel the real 427 hubcap when you turn it over and there is no mercury head embossed.
Thanks for the info!
@@SteveMagnante Hi Steve, the 1963 and 1964 R street cars got this cover. Note its a 1956 Mercury but with emblem delete.
Pretty sure not Edsel Hub cap similar but the Edsel emblem has a rounded top and the lines inside the emblem is continuous. I had a 1959. they had dog dishes on base that your and a full cover as an option and a same cover with spinner on the top of the line cars. The olds 98 is right on the mark I had a 71 with those covers
Enjoyed your video with my wake up coffee
Glad you enjoyed it
1968 Wildcat
You should take Diesel Head to the vet, he looks sickly.
Looks like you're working hard enough to get dirty👍....If you have to get dirty to keep these great videos coming a name change might be in order.....junkyard 'roll'🤣
About the tri-colour Mercury cover. That bears a slight resemblance to the Mercedes-Benz Tri-star. Could it be that MB issued a cease and desist letter citing trademark infringement?
It's a stretch of the imagination to think anyone could mistake the two but legal departments love jumping on things like this.
Hahaha shoulda sold squares for how many parts would there be in the hubcap game series 😆👍 .. or raffle tickets 🤷♂️ 🤔
There was a bend in the road that people took too fast by my buddies house as a kid.
His dad filled 2 walls in his shop with all the wheel covers that flew / rolled off the corner into his yard.
The imperial bird looks a lot like the famous "Choking Chicken" from Pontiac.
👍👍
Is Rudolf a grateful dead fan?
That Plymouth Mayflower one resembles an X-WING fighter from the early Star Wars movie! Anybody else see that?
Oddly enough I kinda like the Edsel 🤷♂️ though I can’t remember why it didn’t get no traction 🤪 but at this date I’ll take anything from the 60’s n before 😂 .. funny thing I never gave hubcaps a second thought , back in the day I dented so many changing tires doing brake jobs etc .. lean back give it a kick to get that last clip / notch to click in 🤪🙄 …
I had always heard the Edsel looked like a Pontiac sucking on a lemon , not the Oldsmobile , I had always
assumed it was because of the treatment Pontiac's center grill lol I could be wrong
The Hubcap game: I cry "UNCLE"
I know it is nit picking but the Comet wasn't a Mercury in 1960.
KT Keller was ahead of his time. Crossovers are just going back to the high roofline bodystyle of the 30s and 40s, before everyone fell for the lower longer wider bodystyle that GM went with in the 50s.
This is ASMR AF.
The hib Cap you said was Edsel,, recheck,, its from a Checker
Weekly dose of wheel covers
Hey steve!!! I need that imperial hub cap. It’s actually a ‘61 which I have and I need a better One. How can I obtain this little gem?
Cheers
Pony
He tells you how in every video. Bernardson auto wrecking, ask for Dale.
Davis and Dale had 3 wheels
That's a '64 B body dodge wheel cover, not a '65. Unless the '65 used the same one.
Hudson?
Hubcaps schmubcaps rip open them glove boxes and seats and get me that quarter
Oh Deer! Rudolph Dieselhead gets his 15 minutes of fame
I believe what you thought was an Edsel hubcap was an Chrysler or Imperial
No not Edsel
The centers of all but the small hubcap has an "E" in the center
Not Edsel 55 chrysler
I dont like aluminum wheels. They all get rashed and look like shit over time. Id rather have steelies and be able to pick my hubcaps again.
Twentieth!!!
Good morning vid with my bacon and eggs !
must be nice.....I only had toast🙃
Ok I'm going to be an old man here. Kids these days, don't about caps, have never rolled down a car window, don't know how to drive stick shift... My first car I owned was in in college a Dodge Omni GLH in red, a 5 speed. I miss that car. Cheers from Milwaukee Wisconsin 🇺🇲🧀🍻
As a content creator, you are on the hunt for material. I get that. But, really, enough with the hubcaps. What next? Door lock buttons? Visors?
Hello Gerald Stephens, Thanks for watching. I do the Hubcap Game once every 6 videos and most viewers enjoy the game by freezing / pausing their video feed and trying to guess what I'll say and what they think I'll say versus what's CORRECT. I can't promise I can name them all but as a car crazed kid growing up in the 1970 - 1980 time frame, I saw most of these wheel covers in motion on cars passing in traffic. I understand that some viewers prefer my Junkyard Crawl videos to focus on actual vehicles and that's what the majority do. But I still have at least another 100 wheel covers in that van and I just know there's a Tucker wheel cover in there some place. I just have to keep digging - once a week. Please do stay tuned. Regardless, Thanks for writing. -Steve Magnante
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