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Technical => Body/Appearance/Interior => Topic started by: slowfoxbird on February 14, 2006, 09:04:55 PM

Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: slowfoxbird on February 14, 2006, 09:04:55 PM
I am wondering if anyone knows of some Thunderbird centercaps that will fit this wheel style.  I got an awesome deal on them, but if I have to live with the running horses, I guess that will be ok until I get the set of wheels I really want.
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/slowfoxbird/stolenpic.jpg)
Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: Nate on February 14, 2006, 09:53:32 PM
HEY YOU!!! you stole my wheel, and my question... LOL    i have them on my car now and i still have the dam running horses on their. i heard about a place that makes blanks but i have yet to find it, also, i have tried sn95 centers, tc centers, and a bunch of others with no luck. i think i rember something about aerostar ones tho,...

im still looking, but if you find anything pm me.
Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: nirvanagod on February 14, 2006, 10:19:43 PM
This may be a rather stupid and pricey solution, but have you guys thought of having them machined? I'm sure that there would be enough material there that you could mill them down to the level of the horse.
Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: Nate on February 14, 2006, 10:25:31 PM
Quote from: nirvanagod
This may be a rather stupid and pricey solution, but have you guys thought of having them machined? I'm sure that there would be enough material there that you could mill them down to the level of the horse.



no can do, the horse is pressed into the cap, if you flip it you can see the inverted horse. the cheap solution i came up with is filling it with body filler, then trying to replicate the circular groves like the rest of the cap has, kinda like a record.
Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: slowfoxbird on February 15, 2006, 02:56:03 PM
Hmm, body filler would be possible, becuase mine are actually the painted wheels.  I just stole that pic off of ebay cause it was the best example.  I could fill it in, repaint, and then put a vynl (sp?) sticker of the 'Bird in the center!  How about that idea?
Title: What about this type
Post by: niizhmkwa on February 24, 2006, 07:48:53 PM
center caps  will these work on those rims  let me know
Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: slowfoxbird on February 24, 2006, 08:48:12 PM
Well, niizhmkwa, I would have to know what those centercaps are off of so that I can try them.
Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: Nate on February 24, 2006, 09:30:57 PM
they look like the ford centers off the mustang 10 holes, if so, they dont fit, along with mn12 centers ect.
Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: slowfoxbird on February 24, 2006, 09:49:28 PM
Yeah, I think the body filler, and a repaint is going to be the easiest thing to do.
Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: Drewstang on February 26, 2006, 03:00:12 AM
The Pony wheel from Mustangs will fit those rims. You can find them in blanks with no emblem, but getting them to look polished like the rim would be the hard part.
Title: Wheel centercaps?
Post by: Outlawz24 on February 27, 2006, 12:25:39 AM
why not have the thunderbird emblem cut through into the cap slightly larger then the pony? What i mean is basicly cut the pony out and have a hole through the cap in the shape of a thunderbird emblem...would look pretty trick of someone were to figure out how to backlight the hole after...
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