 Late style steelies: center caps, ... what do they look like? |
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| type4org |
 Oct 15 2006, 12:36 PM
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You need PLAID!  Group: Members Posts: 231 Joined: 13-June 06 From: Oldenburg (Oldb), Germany Member No.: 6,212  |
In a few days I'll get a beautiful refinished set of late-style steelies for my '76. I'm about to put a for sale ad in for the current Rivieras if anyone is interested, by the way. My question is about center caps: Would anyone have a nice close-up of the center caps and wheel bolt caps these wheels got at the factory?
This is the wheel I mean:  |
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| Porsche Rescue |
Oct 15 2006, 04:11 PM
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Saving and Enjoying Old Porsches Group: Members Posts: 2,978 Joined: 31-December 02 From: Bend, Oregon Member No.: 64 Region Association: None |
I am also in the process of swapping late steel wheels for aftermarket alloys on my '76. I have no lug covers to show. I am waiting on some from an online VW parts source. Supposedly on back order, I hope.
Here are some shots of a center cap, plain black, smooth surface. These are also used on VW's with "styled steel sport wheels". Attached image(s)  
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| type4org |
Oct 15 2006, 04:29 PM
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You need PLAID! Group: Members Posts: 231 Joined: 13-June 06 From: Oldenburg (Oldb), Germany Member No.: 6,212 |
QUOTE(Porsche Rescue @ Oct 15 2006, 06:11 PM)  I am also in the process of swapping late steel wheels for aftermarket alloys on my '76. I have no lug covers to show. I am waiting on some from an online VW parts source. Supposedly on back order, I hope. Here are some shots of a center cap, plain black, smooth surface. These are also used on VW's with "styled steel sport wheels". Thanks a lot for the pictures. It looks like those are the same as the seller I bought my steelies from is sending along. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif) Those wheels were used by VW on many occasions, I see them a lot on Beetle Cabrios, and there were quite a few special edition bugs that had them, the last one (at least for the German market) being the 2400-strong "50 year" edition, which also represented the very last batch of bugs to be imported to Germany by Volkswagen. This was in October 1985 if I remember correctly. Those (and many of the other bugs with those wheels) used special center caps that stuck out further and carried the Wolfsburg crest. A good friend of mine has one of these "50 years" bugs, never driven, in his climate-controlled garage. I don't have them here right now, but in my 914s glove compartment I found a VW parts baggie with a bunch of brand new lug bolt covers, probably ordered by the first owner in the seventies. |
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