NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑28 Jul 2018, 22:24When did the chromium hub cap turn into a wheel trim.
Thinking back to one of the most popular cars of the period, the ubiquitous Ford Escort, the Mk3's had Chrome Hubcaps
https://mathewsons.co.uk/vehicle-auctio ... -1600-ghia
(I always really liked those wheels and the base model Steelies with the round holes suited it really well too)
....but, by the time the Mk4 came along, it was all wheeltrims
...similarly, the now rare early 'Jelly Mould' Sierra from a 'Y' plate was all plastic wheeltrims
perhaps around the early 1980's?
An aside as previously mentioned on other threads: personally, I loathe the current fashion for fancy grey wheels on otherwise drab-ly styled moderns. I eyeballed a recent Mustang just today, in a deep red metallic (very similar to the 405 Le Mans colour), it could've looked lovely with simple wheels in a bright colour to 'lift' the huge expanses of metal, but instead it had fussy grey wheels; which just made the rather unadventurous interpretation of the original styling look drab and a bit like it should've been owned by a spotty teenager.
NB: if anyone's wondering, there will be updates coming in the next few days on my welding project documented elsewhere, but I'm having a few days off from it at the mo.