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ghiafreek
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 Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:05 pm Post subject: stock hubcaps or wire covers |
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My ghia came with the wire wheels covers. Just curious what your thoughts are on which look better.
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jason_hamilton
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Stock hubcaps.
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ovghiaguy
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject: stock hubcaps |
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| the hubcaps look better. those wire jobs belong on a buick or something |
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retrowagen
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Stock hubcaps with stock trim rings. Those wire hubcaps are a JC Whitney special!
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John Moxon 
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ghiafreek
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:01 am Post subject: |
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I love the look of the stock hubcaps with the standard beauty rings...but strangely drawn to the J C Whitney specials too....hmmmm  |
Yes, very weird. When I saw the pics before I bought it I thought 'ugly'. The wheels have strangely grown on me. My family is split. |
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lemke
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:18 am Post subject: |
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Nothing looks better on a Ghia then the stock hub cabs and the (rare $) Lemmerz trim rings. Reminds me of a Porsche 356.
Just my 2 ¢.
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EddieMK2
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:31 am Post subject: |
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I agree,stock looks better!...don't need the family split
Nice ghia by the way.
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Basketcase
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| retrowagen wrote: |
| Stock hubcaps with stock trim rings. Those wire hubcaps are a JC Whitney special! |
that was what I was thinking. |
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aerosilver
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:06 am Post subject: |
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Well i quite like 'em 
Be a little different to the norm. |
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retrowagen
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You Brits don't realise that this exact style was standard on some of the most awful looking Buick and Oldsmobile cars of the late 1970's/early 1980's... I can't see them enhancing the elegant looks of any Karmann Ghia (let alone a lowlight Cabriolet!) in any way. 
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Altema
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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Although the wire covers look "ok", the originals look classier and more expensive in my opinion.
Paul |
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retrowagen
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Noooooooooooooooooooooo! I'm definitely having some bad disco-era flashbacks.
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mlhsquared
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I like them both. There's no law that says you can't run both sets, switching them out when you see fit. Hell, I'd run rusty, crusty OG four lugs with no caps as long as I got to drive my Ghia. Just my opinion. 
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oorwullie
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i was going to take a set of those wire caps from a cadillac that was getting junked but just couldn't get them off.  |
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cseay1
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Karly
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| I'm more into the stock hubcap compared to the wire wheel covers... and even more so if the center VW symbol is painted. |
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cseay1
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| oorwullie wrote: |
| i was going to take a set of those wire caps from a cadillac that was getting junked but just couldn't get them off. |
Most of the GM wire wheel covers bolt on with a security nut that requires a special tool to remove. You have to first pop off the emblem in the center of the cover, then use the tool to remove the security nut which is attached to a threaded adapter that bolts to the wheel itself. See the top right of the image.
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Kmolenda
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| They look like my corvair wire wheels with GM knockoffs. A bad look on a Corvair and a Ghia... Just my opinion.. |
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mountainkowboy
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With the "rounded" style of the KG body I think that wires just don't look right. Absolutely great on a TR-4 or an Alpine, but there not anywhere near as rounded as the KG.
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