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13/08/2020 6:51 am
PIC .. LOL - Wheel Covers that was dubbed Checkerboard Spinners
From Dick's post #49755 about the '54 Chevy.
The white areas had a checkerboard pattern
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13/08/2020 8:30 am
These particular spinners are from a 56 Olds - cool in the day
13/08/2020 8:46 am
Had no clue Ron. And Mac's still sells them
I liked them as easy to clean and as you said, they were cool! Thanks
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13/08/2020 9:00 am
Growing up in the fifties, I am aware of these aftermarket wheel covers. I just never heard them called checkerboards.
13/08/2020 10:16 am
Same here.
John Bono
North Jersey
13/08/2020 10:19 am
PIC: Here is the original 1956 Oldsmobile Fiesta Spinner Hubcap.....
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John Bono
North Jersey
13/08/2020 11:09 am
Back in the '50s, we always thought that those "checkerboards" (though we never heard them called that) were rip-offs of the Olds spinners, with the Olds Saturn planets removed from them and replaced with the squares. They were found at Western Auto, Pep Boys, and in J.C. Whitney catalogs. More popular in our area were the Dodge Lancer spinners from '57 and '58, although some guys did buy real Olds spinner 'caps and repaint the round section with the planets to match their cars.