Restoring Road Wheels

I believe a couple of years they had several rivets that held the 15” road wheels together, but most years of them were welded. I do remember seeing the rivets (the large industrial hot rivet pounded flat style) in a few of them – which I thought was a bit odd.
BudW
 
That would explain the chrome center with the black hoop.
Then after they started welding the wheels they were all gray. 14"
 
I made a set of 14x7 Abody small bolt pattern rally wheel's using Pontiac hoops that were riveted and the centers from a set of Abody rally wheel's. I plug welded the centers with the rivet holes, it worked grait.
 
Well, the Road Wheels that I have are painted gray, and that is likely what I will repaint them whenever I get time to do it. In the meantime, the old black steel wheels and factory hubcaps are back on. It's a different look, and nice for a change, although I do think I prefer the Road Wheels. I don't think I will go with white lettered tires again though. Blackwalls will do nicely.

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I like the slotted 15 inch New Yorker Cordoba wheels a lot. I used to get them from the junkyard and use them to civilianize the cop cars from auction. They look good on just about anything
 
I like poverty caps on anything other than 14" wheel's. Like I've said before I'm going with 15x4 and 15x8s on the Plymouth painted body color.
Edit: if the caps don't fit over the long studs I just won't run them.
 
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Poverty caps.....we always called them loin caps. All the cover is your nuts. :)
 
Maybe a regional thing. Here it's poverty caps. I always think, when seeing a car with the poverty caps (dog dishes, loin caps LOL) it's either a base model car with a six cylinder and no options OR, it's a big block with only go fast options. Actually, my dad's '68 Coronet 440 (RIP in 2018) came new with poverty caps but it was a 318, auto, disc brakes, etc with twin blue stripe tires and the car was blue (B7 I think?). Looked cool to me, especially when we went to the dealer to pick it up when I was 4 years old!
Obviously not the actual car but it was this style cap.
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