Re: Hubcaps

Posted by Packard Don On 2025/2/13 13:18:41

Packard had a several ways of attaching wheel covers and one was to use the clips and the other was to use the three lumps around the center which the cover I showed above used. If a wheel was shared across models, it might have both the clips and the lumps but yours has ONLY the lumps and the wheels you have never had clips as the holes are not there so, unless the type of cover I showed was used in 1950 - and I'm not sure that it was - then you have the wrong wheels. Your wheels look identical to those ob my 1956 Clipper Custom which used full covers.

For the sake of completeness, there was a third way to attach the cover used on some 1951 and later models, which was for full wheel covers that attached using their own clips to the inside of the outer rim. Those are inappropriate for 1950 and earlier, though.