Wheel Cover Clips

From your friendly neighborhood Thunderbird parts supplier. Originally 5 per wheel

http://www.parts123.com/parts123/yb.dll ... Z50000051c

Hey Tim, how did they work out for you? Did you use 5 per wheel? I had heard that the T-Bird clips were tighter than the original DeSoto ones. However, that "could" be due to the fact that the DeSoto clips are over 50 years old AND they have been "stretched" for many years and used over and over again.

Jim

The new ones were as near to an exact replacement as one could imagine. The little rubber bumpers were different in design, but they worked just fine.

When we started on our restoration, the car had 3 original and one replacement wheelcover in the trunk. One of the original wheelcovers had been stolen "back in the day" when the car was used regularly. Whoever got that original wheelcover HAD to have been persistent and known how they were mounted, because the clips really do grip the wheelcover tightly to the wheel.

Does anyone know if these will work on a 53 DeSoto? My hubcaps love to rotate relative to the wheel and as a result my valve stem gets pushed over. I am afraid of spinning one off. These hubcaps end up being expensive out in the market. I tried to post a photo of the hubcap but it took too long for 172 KB so I quit. I thought this site was taking 172 KB pretty easily but ...

Paul, try loading your image again.

Sometimes, the process seems to "hang up". Seemingly all progress comes to a halt. When that happens to me, I make sure to wait 30 seconds or so, and then I close the "progress window". I then click the "back " arrow to go back to my submission page, and go ahead and submit my response. My image is almost always loaded.

I don't think that the clips work on a conventional wheelcover.

Paul
Remember we had this discussion before??? There is a chrome sleeve that fits over the valve stem and prevents the cap from spinning. It was aMoPar accessory and at one time Bernbaum carried them. I had them on my 51 and still do on my 50 Imperial.....the caps never move.
Chris

Thank you for your help, I have ordered the clips and should have them later this week. I will let you know how they work

Brian

Concerning, rotating hubcaps:
Chris, I remember having discussions about this before but none of the suggestions worked or could work. Concerning the sleeves, no one had them. One place had them but were out of them. So I am still searching.

Tim, thank you for the tip on loading photos. Presently, I do not need to load them unless someone wants to see original 53 hubcaps. I have seen variations on these but I do not believe they are correct.

Paul -- sorry to resurrect a two-year-old thread, but here goes:

I have 4, original looking wheel covers on my 53 Firedome. The centers show no evidence of ever being painted. The 53 brochure shows red centers with stainless Hernandos on the wheel covers. Are or were your originals painted in the center?

Anyone know the short cut to perfect paint, if they are supposed to have it? How about mask off the center, give Hernando a nice coat of Vaseline, and spray the centers? After they dry, clean the Vaseline and red paint off ole Hernando.

Or how about photograph the center, ask your son-in-law to trace the photo and make a vector file of the center and Hernando. Then have him cut them out of flexible red vinyl with adhesive back on his laser cutter?

I don't have a steady-enough hand to just brush them.