Slight Twist on '59 Cadillac Wheel Cover

[Walter Youshock]

Well, eric just brought the car to my house to see.  It's truly incredible.  The wheelcovers look great but I know they're incorrect.  Yet they do "belong".  They actually DETRACT  from the over-the-top '59 style and draw your vision Down.

As an owner of a Mountain Laurel  '57, I was derided for the color choice.  It wasn't my first.  I wanted a 2-tone Thebes and glade green coupe but this car came up with 24,510 miles so I bought it. 

The car is what it is.  Color, style and all.  It represents a time in America when Cadillac was the plus-ultimate of all things quality.  We'll never see that again.  So, yes, it's iconic and it now represents the best of the best in automotive excellence and the height of what was popular at the time.

Imagine throwing away a 2 or 3 year old car because the COLOR no longer was popular.  That's what happened with mine in 1960 or '61.

[59-in-pieces]

Eric,
You joker, I LOL on your description of how YOU got your caps painted.
You can see from the pic I attached, both the 59 and 60 Eldo caps are moving towards painted caps.
The Hub part of both years caps shared the black paint between the vertical ribs.
However, the 59 did not have painted rings around the center medallions, while the 60 did have black rings around the center medallions.
So the 60 was further moving in the direction of painted accents, as Ken says on the optional regular caps.
I still think your caps are stunning.
Have fun,
Steve B.

[Eric DeVirgilis CLC# 8621]

Thanks fellas.

As far as I'm concerned, GM really dropped the ball on this one.

Here are a few more. I changed the camera settings to help with the attachments. (Must be set to the smallest size to attach more than one.)

*Watch out letting Wally drive your car! He loves testing the trans kick down! 

[76eldo]

I like the way it looks.

Changing hubcaps for show is simple and easy.

BR

[Walter Youshock]

I was making sure those hubcaps weren't going to fly off the wheels!

[Eric DeVirgilis CLC# 8621]

I was making sure those hubcaps weren't going to fly off the wheels!

You were checking the hubcaps while I was checking my pulse. 

[Jon S]

I know these would look terrible in Versailles Green. 1958's wouldn't cut the color coordinated theme IMHO

[Eric DeVirgilis CLC# 8621]

57/58 have a lot of trim that 59/60 do not and while the latter is a transition generation, 1958 is solidly a 1950s design.

While painted 1958 caps might look okay by themselves, they probably would not work on car - particularly due to the sheer quantity of brightwork on the 1958 Cadillac. 

As 1959 was arguably the first year a Cadillac had less chrome than the year preceding - is all the more reason the painted covers seem to work very well on the '59.

[Jon S]

57/58 have a lot of trim that 59/60 do not and while the latter is a transition generation, 1958 is still solidly a 1950s design.

While painted 1958 caps might look okay by themselves, they probably would not work on car - particularly due to the sheer quantity of brightwork on the 1958 Cadillac. 

As 1959 was arguably the first year a Cadillac had less chrome than the year preceding - is all the more reason the painted covers seem to work very well on the '59.

Eric - I agree - That is what I was trying to say . . .  1959 - yes; 1958 - no.  (but I'm still into authenticity).

Yours look great!

[Eric DeVirgilis CLC# 8621]

Thanks Jon.

As a side note - very few realize the standard wheel cover on 1980- 1985 Fleetwood Brougham d'Elegance was also painted.

It was the same as the standard Brougham cap except the vaned area was color keyed to body color. Kind of a hat tip to 61/62.

Since d'Elegance buyers tended to order wire wheel covers or wire wheels, rarely were standard d'Elegance covers seen then, much less today.