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For those who have the coveted 66 hubcaps, you know that when you restore them or polish them the black "FORD" on the rear caps and the stripes on all of them often get removed or do not look as good a new.
We have restored some of these caps and have never found a good way to cleanly paint onto the highly polished surface so that it has clean lines and will also adhere like the original paint did.
Therefore, we used vinyl when we did my dad's 66 U13 years ago. It looks great, but at the time, we used gloss black vinyl and I have since thought that satin black is more accurate and would look a bit better.
I just made some in satin black and put a set on a recently polished 66 cap I had. For the first set of these I have installed, I think they went on pretty well for not taking but about 10 minutes or so on this test piece.
If anyone is interested, send me a PM.
Rear Hubcap kit (does one cap): $12 for one, or $20 for a pair.
Front hubcap kit (does one cap): $6 for one, or $10 for a pair.
Complete set: $30 and will include one extra "FORD" and two extra stripes in case you mess one up during install.
We have restored some of these caps and have never found a good way to cleanly paint onto the highly polished surface so that it has clean lines and will also adhere like the original paint did.
Therefore, we used vinyl when we did my dad's 66 U13 years ago. It looks great, but at the time, we used gloss black vinyl and I have since thought that satin black is more accurate and would look a bit better.
I just made some in satin black and put a set on a recently polished 66 cap I had. For the first set of these I have installed, I think they went on pretty well for not taking but about 10 minutes or so on this test piece.
If anyone is interested, send me a PM.
Rear Hubcap kit (does one cap): $12 for one, or $20 for a pair.
Front hubcap kit (does one cap): $6 for one, or $10 for a pair.
Complete set: $30 and will include one extra "FORD" and two extra stripes in case you mess one up during install.
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