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I am wondering what the difference with the blue or yellow bow ties?
Did certain years get the yellow and certain get the blue? Different base colors get blue or yellow? Any thoughts would be great.

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69-72 were blue bow tie and chrome over brass material prone to splitting. 73-76 were yellow bow tie and stainless steel much more durable.

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That’s good info. Does that apply to the 12” hubcaps as well?

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Yes

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I believe 75 was the last year for this style of PO3 (not that it matters, you know what you’re looking for!). I kind of prefer the stainless ones and then just paint the bow tie, for the reasons Scott mentioned above.

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As mentioned the blue bowties were earlier. Good luck finding them at any sort of a reasonable price. I have them on my 71 but I had to look hard and long to find them. I could have found Jimmy Hoffa easier.

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The more I look into this the more I think of just running my truck without caps. It's not gonna be a very good looking truck anyways; it's gonna be a work truck DD; and it seems too easy for thieves to steal them considering what they may be worth. Truck will never be parked in a garage and will sit in parking lots regularly.
Don't think it's worth it. Oh and I need GMC covers for a '72. I'm sure those are just growing on trees...

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For 1/2 tons you can find car hubcaps. They aren't always as expense and often much easier to find. On my '67 short bed GMC I will be running 8" steel wheels with '65-'72 Pontiac dog dishes. Seems appropriate for a GMC and there is no logo, just Pontiac Motor Division stamped in an inner ring in small size. For Chevys you have all the Chevy car caps. Car caps on trucks, or cars swapping between models is one of the earliest forms of personalization with cars and trucks. In the lead sled customs era it was the thing to do with wheelcovers. In the hot rod world it was a common thing for using dog dish

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I won't lie, trucks with caps do look more "complete" but they don't look too bad capless. I totally understand your concern with theft considering the ease of removal and crazy prices caps command these days.

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Oh forgot to add I myself have a 1ton SRW, good luck to the OP on their cap finding journey.

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I picked up these '54 hubcaps at swap meets just to dress up my rollers on the SWB project. I think I bought 3 then later found the fourth. I didn't pay much at all. People are wanting more for everything these days, but I still think you can find car caps for for less than these originals. You have to pay a lot for crappy caps for these trucks.
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I'm running open wheels on my '72 K2500 because all I have are N.O.S. caps and my truck is not yet worthy. Also, that is how you saw most trucks back in the day when they installed wider wheels. Usually they were just left with the black that came on them. Wider steel wheels were more a necessity for going to wider tires than about dressing up.
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I have some of the correct blue bowtie ones on mine. Got lucky and found a reasonably priced group. Sometimes you can get lucky on ebay.

Are these the style you are looking for?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/13406549677...IAAOSwB75iPkdE

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I have a set original blue bowties painted caps and I purchased a set of SS yellow bowties last year . The only difference is the center section on the the later models are concave as apposed to convexed on the blue bowtie caps. They still fit but are different.

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I like your truck as is. If you ever run out of room I could probably clear a spot in my driveway for it. :D

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...Tims_Truck.jpg

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i prefer the 73-75 GMC caps better on my 8-luggers. Not only because they are stainless or because I think the concave looks better than convex. On GMCs the 69-72s the convex center is painted black, on 73-75s it isn't painted at all.
Sorry Paul, I have more room than ever these days. My son has one vehicle and I have three total, including the '67 project. I used to have nine or more sitting here. I don't know how they all fit. This county allows us one unregistered vehicle, and a major part of a vehicle counts as one. That could be a chassis, a cab, or probably just a bed. For the first time since I've lived here I am finally legal. I have a cab that counts as the unregistered, but maybe not since it's under cover

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The SS are much nicer .

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Looks great! A pickup truck that stills looks like a pickup truck. The traditional pickup box is all about function.

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I agree on all that. If I had that truck I would leave it just that way, or bring one like it back to that Base to Bells & Whistles, I like then all!

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Here is a set we are just finishing up for one of the board members. Stainless with concave center, but blue bowties. Maybe not for the purist, but this style is what is going on my 72 C20 as I believe they look better than the older style, and are more durable, but know that is just opinion. Yes, some balk at the prices these fetch, but consider just cost to get decent "cores", the materials and hours labor it takes to bring them into this condition.

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chevmn those things are beautiful. I think I might be afraid to drive around with those on my wheels. I've seen you post up some really nice ones but I didn't realize you restored them.

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My son and I do a few now as time permit. I began a quest to find a set for my truck I am working on, and bought one set, restored those, then found a better set, and it sort of got out of hand, but you might say I am always on the lookout for that better one or a set, and it never ends, and do a few P01's, and a few 1/2 ton dog dish, then made some tooling to do K20 fronts once in a while. As some have mentioned, just purchasing a set to restore has gotten quite tough, then add in the materials, hours of labor, etc, it is not not always for everyone. Most are simply not willing to pay todays shop rates for restoring a hub cap, but I can assure you it takes the same type skill level on some of them. But, we are not trying to make a living or do full time, nor charge body shop rates (this set likely has 8-10 hours labor).

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If I ever get my truck in shape to justify something like that I may hit you up. We’re actually heading to Iberia for my nieces graduation this weekend. Small world.

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If you blink you might miss the small town of about 400 or so if I recall :-) I actually live about 4 miles south.

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Yeah that's why Iberia caught my eye. Most of my clan is scattered through that area, from around hwy K up to Tavern Creek.

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Seriously? I live off K, and am looking at the Big Tavern as I type this. Very close to Circle A, adjoining my property

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I’m looking for a set of caps and 16”x8” rims for my 72 k20 Cheyenne Super. PM me pricing and availability. Thx
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Wheels are getting tough...I waited 4 months and they went up $42 each during that
Time., keep an eye out on the parts board here .. I just bought a pretty good set from a board member...and yes I'm a hubcap hoarder.they say the first step is admitting your addiction...

I have them on both my K20s

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Let's keep the sales and WTBs in the parts area and the discussion here

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16x7 should be fairly easy to find at salvage from the early 90's F250s, and vans (Ford Accuride). This is what I bought for my project, and while I got lucky, they were about $20 each from local salvage. Not long ago I ran into a single at the local pick-a-part yard sitting close to the door and grabbed it as a spare for about same price. Wish I would have had sandblasted and powder coated before I mounted the tires now. May still do that if this project drags on much longer.

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I am myself, partial to poverty caps. Painted or SS doesn't matter. Heck I even like the 68-69 camaro caps on these trucks. I have beater caps on my shop truck and I bought a "Sunday" set to hang on to. They get bought up quick.

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All the caps are getting harder to find . The set for my 72 I bought in Tenn at SETN i didnt even try to haggle but they were a good price anyway . These i bought as soon as they came up for sale on this board 4 1968 NOS c20 hub caps not cheap but saved me days of restoration on the ones I have on the truck

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Those are purdy😁😁
I thought I was crazy a few years ago paying $250
For 4 NOS half ton caps but turned out to be
a buy compared to today's prices

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Seeing all these lovely hubcaps makes me want to doll mine up. But then I'd be looking harder at the paint and the body, etc., and it would be downhill from there.

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Heres my Sunday set. Hanging on the wall where they do nobody any good.

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There appears to be a new renaissance of attitudes towards appearances. IMO, the original "look" is in after decades of "whatever tickles you fancy", majority of hubcaps were tossed aside in the first days of ownership, usually for some current fad , wagon wheels, cyclone wheels, slot type wheels etc. and good hubcaps were sold cheap at swap meets and online. Different story lately, there is now a demand for good hubcaps. Hubcaps are an extension of body styling applied to the wheels. Here is a '68 C 20 ( not mine) with original chrome hubcaps, hard to beat the look, especially when hubcaps and paint on wheels are both in great condition, they compliment each other, IMO, the look is priceless. The way things are going with supply and demand on good hubcaps, some might want to stay with "whatever" at this point in the game.

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Hard to believe they still aren’t being reproduced.

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Probably due to tooling cost, and most of all GM licensing for the bowtie. Even if they were, they would likely be in the neighborhood of the earlier models that are reproduced. At $400 each, or $1600 a set plus tax and shipping, the nice OEM start to look more attractive.

https://www.brotherstrucks.com/1964-...tinfo/HCC5C66/

Those have gone up since last time I looked, but were in neighborhood of $1000 a set couple years ago.