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pinballwiz
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 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:55 pm Post subject: Cogwheel hubcap. Original or repop? |
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Need help with this one. Picked up a set of cogwheel hubcaps recently and was wondering if they are original or repops. Was told they come out of a 356 bone yard. Nothing in the yard was newer than mid 50's.
They are heavy but no markings anywhere.
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RareAir
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All the original Pre '49 hub caps I've seen always had a single hole (aligned perfectly @ the 6 o'clock postion) for a hub cap remval tool. That one looks to have 2 holes at the 1 o'clock postion
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pinballwiz
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Well if they are repops, anybody know when they started making them? I know they are not the same as what is out there now.
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drscope
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| All the original Pre '49 hub caps I've seen always had a single hole (aligned perfectly @ the 6 o'clock postion) for a hub cap remval tool. That one looks to have 2 holes at the 1 o'clock postion |
Maybe those are just perfect rust holes.
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splitjunkie
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a cogwheel would be pre '46 would it not?
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| a cogwheel would be pre '46 would it not? |
Pre mid-'46 I think. |
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Ivan Fuller
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| I saw repros before I got my 47 in about 1990 - both styles were available. |
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thenastyfasty
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i have an original big logo hubcap in the garage, its realy thin and realy light, i doubt if it is original and as you say heavy because if they are 1946 steel would have been scarce
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eurodub
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i have one of those hubcaps as well. mine is repro and i think these are 100% repro too. i keep it as wall art, near the split dash above my bed 
the originals are way too different.
the area on the hubcap near the cogwheel logo is flat on an original, not bubbled like on repros above.
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pinballwiz
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Thanks a bunch for all the replies and help! 
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1960Turkis
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: Cogwheel hubcap. Original or repop? |
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Unfortunatly some of the pictures in this topic are gone, so let me ask this one more time  Can you tell these are repro's, because the part around the cog wheel is not flat enough? Or am I looking at something else here?
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DDub
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: Cogwheel hubcap. Original or repop? |
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| I remember seeing new repros like this in the '80's. |
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usariemen
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 2:01 pm Post subject: Re: Cogwheel hubcap. Original or repop? |
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| 1960Turkis wrote: |
Unfortunatly some of the pictures in this topic are gone, so let me ask this one more time Can you tell these are repro's, because the part around the cog wheel is not flat enough? Or am I looking at something else here?
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Beside that you can really see a difference to the pic of old originals.
Do you really think there are four original old ones beside each other looking like this? No way.
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RareAir
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 9:09 am Post subject: Re: Cogwheel hubcap. Original or repop? |
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| 1960Turkis wrote: |
Unfortunatly some of the pictures in this topic are gone, so let me ask this one more time Can you tell these are repro's, because the part around the cog wheel is not flat enough? Or am I looking at something else here?
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The Thing Shop in Arizona marketed those in the '80-'90s. I purchased a set for my '47 before I could get some originals from Ed Economy here in Southern California
I later sold my reproduction caps for $200/set
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