Wheel Trims UK

[DavidB]

I can't believe this isn't a piss take - but there's probably hundreds of videos of these young people going round finding wheel trims.

The scrap yard video is amazing, they sound exactly like me and my mates when we found a massive stash of jazz mags in Storeton Woods. 😆 It's nice to see some kids are into more than instagram and that there tickety tock.

 

[mk2_craig]

Ah man, even without playing the video I can see the one I’m missing on the Renner 19.

[Richard_FM]

I follow someone on Flickr who collects them & other bits of cars he finds.

[morrisoxide]

They sound a bit like over exaggeration bearded tit explorer.

Reminds me of my Dad going around sharp corners too fast and losing Mk2 & 3 Cav wheel trims before cable ties where common.  My Brother and I would be forced into the brambles to look for the trim, only to find a pile of not quite the right Vaux trims. When he got a Fiat Brava (because Cavs got pinched a lot) he insisted on a spare set of trims that we didn't need because they never fell off.

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

ummm is it sad that i'm sat here thinking "i'm sure i know that scrapyard"?! 🤪🤣🤣

[warren t claim]

I'm sure I read somewhere that Saab made a plastic wheel trim  that looked just like their classic 80s alloy wheel.

[Schaefft]

This reminds me of 10 year old me finding a bag of lighters randomly one day. My lighter collection was never the same after that day to the great concern of my grandad. I can totally understand why this would be mind blowing to them.

[HMC]

When I was 10 I found a mk3 cav Sri wheel trim in a hedge and had it in pride of place on my bedroom bookshelf, next to a square MG centre cap from one of those those mg maestro slotted alloys.

[sierraman]

In the indoor market at St Austell they had a wheel trim shop selling sets of used hubcaps. Amongst those ghastly fleeces with murals of wolves on them. 

[Stanky]

Wasn't there someone on here who got sent a pristine replacement hubcap by an Autistic lad who was really into hubcaps, had a huge collection and when he spotted local cars with missing hubcaps would bag up one of his collection with a note explaining and leave it at the owners house for them to have a complete set again? Did it totally FOC with no expectations or demands, it was just his 'thing'?

Seemed like a really wholesome and productive activity for him to focus his energy on.

EDIT - This lad: https://blog.theautismsite.greatergood.com/free-hubcaps/

[chodweaver]

That's cheered me up no end!
Thanks@Stanky

[MiniMinorMk3]

When I was a teenager, I used to hang hub caps on my bedroom wall. None of the shitey plastic ones, just nice old chrome ones from Fords, Jags, VWs etc. My best find was a big stainless jobbie that must have fallen of a coach. Bit like the ones pictured below

[lesapandre]

Charming vid - encyclopaedic knowledge.

I collect odd car bits I come across for cars I'd like some day. Recently got a 1962 Studebaker hub cap at a car boot sale in France.

Speculate on what story it had - off a scrapped Studebaker import or did somebody bring it back from the US or did it fly off and get lost in the distant past - there was just the one. Who knows but how did it end up at a cb in a field in France - a long way from South Bend USA.

[MiniMort]

I remember my primary school for some reason had a collection of wheel trims from various cars. Not exactly sure what purpose they served - maybe they were used for some kind of decoration but young me took great delight in trying to identify them all. Only one that sticks in my mind is one for a Mk2 Polo CL…

[Noel Tidybeard]

iirc my step-bro had 4 different wheel trims on his renner5 that were all hedgerow finds🤣