Found em! Mythical 15” mag style covers.

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I’ve been looking for a nice set of the Hotwheels mag style covers in 15” for a while now. Picked up a clean set today.

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Guys leaving the Long Beach hi po swap meet.

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These are the no name center type. These I believe were used mostly on Ford pickups. The rare variant of both of these wheel covers are for the 67 & 68 Shelby Mustangs w Shelby centers.

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Shelby offered a real wheel version of the later cover for his earlier cars made by cragar I believe. I’ve seen these in 14” and they do make a modern version in 15” now but I prefer the wheel covers.

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Nice find. That style wheel cover was offered by Dodge, Plymouth, Ford, and Chevrolet and were all made by the same manufacturer that supplied the wire wheel covers for most of the US auto manufacturers in the mid to late 60's. Dodge and Plymouth versions were 14" only and had Dodge or Plymouth emblems in the center. Chevrolet's versions were made in 13" and 14" sizes and had the Chevrolet emblem in the center. Ford's version of the same wheel cover was offered in 14" and 15" sizes and came with either the Ford emblem, or the Cobra emblem (on 68 Shelby Mustangs) or came with the plain center. The advantage of the plain center ones is that they are identical to the ones used by all the other manufacturers but with the plain center, they can be used on any Plymouth, Dodge, Chevy or Ford and look correct. I believe the plain center 15" were pretty rare and may have only been used as rarely seen options on the 68-69 Ford Galaxie XL (and you are probably right about the Ford pickup application as well). They look right at home on a Plymouth as well.
 
Nice caps, interesting they have a blank center with no name or symbol.

I have those on my 1967 Dodge road runner

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Nice caps, interesting they have a blank center with no name or symbol.

I have those on my 1967 Dodge road runner

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I swear I had a 15” set w Plymouth or Dodge centers back in the 90’s. Maybe someone disassembled them and swapped the center out - who knows??? These are not perfect but they are as good as I need for drivers. The fist blank ones I ever bought were from my neighbor in Az. They were on a ford truck he bought it new. $10 each.

Nice Road Runner by the way. The rumor was that ad gave some guy in product planning a stroke!!!
 
Are those original centers or something someone made later?

Here is a set of the Dealer only 67 Plymouth ones (rare)
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Alan
 
Love those red lines. Hopefully you still let me in the Hotwheels club without mine. I’m afraid to price those tires LoL!!!
 
Are those original centers or something someone made later?

Here is a set of the Dealer only 67 Plymouth ones (rare)
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Alan
Yes these are OEM ford truck covers. I’ve also seen no name on galaxies but only in old pictures. They came in Ford & Shelby script and no name centers from Ford. The Chevys are completely different and you can see the rim thru cut outs on the wheel cover.
 
Nice! What are you doing with the fake Magnum covers? If you're going to sell them I may be interested...
I’m finally gonna be able to go thru them and get them back to how they should look. They’re a real handsome cover when the paint isn’t cooked off.

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I still like them. I’m just taking a break from them until I get them fixed up.
 
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