Project getting close to the finish line

Hi Tom,
Looks Great. Good to hear that you are feeling better. I am debating on a wheel color for my !936 restoration. The body is Deep Maroon and I was considering a sand color. What color are your wheels?
Bruce
 
Well, all finished with new brake cylinders and she is stopping fine now. Took it for a nice drive from my shop to home, about 4 miles...drove in and my wife said, you are missing a hubcap! We went back along the same roads but no luck on finding it, ordered another one from Macs and my paint guy will have another small job to do:mad: I put a dab of silicone on the wheel tabs for the other three so hopefully they will stay on. Car looks great in the sunshine today, grateful to have it completed, now time to enjoy:D
 

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What a nice lookin' car! With the price of '36 hubcaps being what it is, I'd consider something more substantial than "a dab of silicone" to keep them on. Does anyone sell quality replacement spring clips?
 
Tom's36coupe said:
Tubman, good question....several tabs are not very tight holding. Looks like they are riveted on?
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Have found some of the replacement tabs are not correct spring type steel.
They tend to bend and loss of tension yo hold hub caps.
I ended up fitting some old ones removed from a spare rim.
Phil NZ
 
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