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d500neil
Posted 2010-05-10 2:33 PM (#222597 - in reply to #219816)
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Heh, heh: HEATERS were optional (because they were pricey, and PLY/Others could advertise a lower base price
without them, and SOME cars were sold without heaters in them)...but 'hubcaps' (doggies) were STANDARD items
because EVERYBODY expected to get a car with something installed over the wheels----at least until 1969.5.....







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Posted 2010-05-10 5:18 PM (#222617 - in reply to #219816)
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My unrestored '59 DeSoto has two-tone rims. Here's a pic of the spare showing the two colors (white and "trunk gray")

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Posted 2010-05-10 5:43 PM (#222624 - in reply to #219816)
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Hiya, David!

Yeah, this motif is just about the Corporate-Standard wheel finishment.

Take a look at yours, though; doesn't it look like the gray was applied on TOP of the white???

That makes NO sense to me---white on top of gray primer; sure, but 'primer' on top of "paint" ????



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1960DesotoAdventurer
Posted 2010-05-10 5:49 PM (#222626 - in reply to #220843)
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Doctor DeSoto - 2010-04-29 12:00 AM

slimwhitman - 2010-04-26 6:44 PM

This is a great thread. I hope we come to some conclusions with it. I seem to see a lot of contradictions. For the record, my original '60 Adventurer with full wheel covers has satin black wheels.

I know a VERY few '60 Fireflites were built with dogdish caps. Does anyone know if all of those cars also came with satin black wheels?


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My 60 Fireflite coupe was a special order car, owned by the dealer's son. It had dog dish hubcaps on 15" wheels that
were P&A black. I SO wish I still had this car. Had I only realized how crazy-weird it was ! Given our ability to decode
these cars now, it would be very interesting to learn how the car left the factory and what gear it picked up in the dealer
service dept. It was (and remains) the only 60 DeSoto I have ever seen with back-up light delete block-off plates.



DoctorDeSoto,
Any chance you have a photo of the 60 Fireflite you could post here? I'd love to see what the block off plates for the back up lights looked like!
I didnt know you could order them without back up lights!
Now I am curious,didnt every 1957 Plymouth leave the factory with backup lenses? If they were standard on the plymouth,a low price vehicle,why would they be an extra cost option on the DeSoto?
What about the '58's? I know the moved the back up light to the lower bumper panel that year,but did they all get one,or was it an option?

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1960DesotoAdventurer
Posted 2010-05-10 5:53 PM (#222627 - in reply to #222597)
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Heh, heh: HEATERS were optional (because they were pricey, and PLY/Others could advertise a lower base price
without them, and SOME cars were sold without heaters in them)...but 'hubcaps' (doggies) were STANDARD items
because EVERYBODY expected to get a car with something installed over the wheels----at least until 1969.5.....







If you didnt buy a heater,how would you defrost your winshield on cold or rainy days?
didnt it eventually become a standard that all cars had to have a heater?
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Posted 2010-05-10 6:08 PM (#222630 - in reply to #222596)
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d500neil - 2010-05-10 12:29 PM
Mike, you're saying that only the 58 Belvie and the Sport Suburban had standard (full-width) wheel covers on them.

The other models came OEM with the dog-dishes.


I am assuming the Fury had standard wheel covers too, but yes - in 1958, the Belvedere, Sport Suburban, and Fury would have come from the factory with wheel covers. A Savoy or Plaza could have either hub caps (standard) or wheel covers (optional).

The exceptions are probably out there somewhere, but from what I read of the factory literature - this is what I would expect.

In 1958 Dodge passenger car land, Royals and Custom Royals came from the factory with wheel covers. Coronets could have either hub caps (standard) or wheel covers (optional).
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1960DesotoAdventurer
Posted 2010-05-10 6:08 PM (#222631 - in reply to #221160)
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Doctor DeSoto - 2010-05-01 12:59 PM

Thanks Ed. I was thinking the 57's were not Argent, but my brain is getting fuzzy.

So, out of curiosity, did Argent prevail with DeSoto in 59-60-61 ? 20 years after dealing with cars that were intended
only for parts and were largely swapped around, as far as wheels go, have left me unsure.

I kept the dog dishies from my 60 when I sold it ... the buyer did not want them. I later found an extra in a wrecking
yard in Omak. I would love to build a super el cheapo 57 Firedome someday in those colors of Danny's recent post. I
dropped the ball and let a wasted rusty convertible in those colors get away from me in PA years ago that was bare bones.

Ed, you wouldn't happen to know what happened to that car, would you ?

I have never see a 61 with dog dishies, but I assume they kept using the new-for-57 hubcaps through to the end, as they
were definitely used through 60.


What do 1960 DeSoto dog dish hubcaps look like?
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d500neil
Posted 2010-05-10 8:22 PM (#222652 - in reply to #219816)
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60DeSAdv, if you lived anywhere but in the Desert SoWest, you'd probably opt for the heater/defroster option.

We've seen several cars on these here 'boards', that did/do-not have the optional heaters in them.

In the "Plymouth/DeSoto Story" (-book), I'll bet that there might be a photo or two of a Doggied-up Soto.





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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2010-05-10 10:33 PM (#222683 - in reply to #222631)
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I will dig out one of my dog dishies and take a photo. DeSoto used the same cap from 57 to 60 (and likely 61 too, ...
but I have never seen an original 61 wearing them). It is unmarked, but has a distinctive shape and painted black rings.
Come to thinkof it, look back in this thread at the 57 FireSweep ad showing the seafoam green sedan with body colored
wheels and dog dishies ..... those are them !

The back up light block-offs were simple sheetmetal "plugs" that were spot welded in place and sealed with Au-Vee-Co (sic?)
before painting. I do have plenty of photos of this car, but none are digital and I am in the Dark Ages for all this fancy-pants
scanner jazz to copy them.

Just as an aside, somewhere above in this thread it was mentioned that the black wheels were "satin" in finish. Likely this
was P&A (parts and accessories) Black, ... a special paint for underhood components and such .... generators, brakets, inner
fenders, grille blackout, etc.
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Posted 2010-05-10 10:38 PM (#222688 - in reply to #222627)
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My 60 Fireflite had no heater. Bought new in Bellingham, Washington, just a few miles from the Canadian border !

It also had clear glass, rubber floor mats, no radio, no back up lights, or wheelcovers.

It did have a crossram 383 and a 3-onda-floor, 3.23 posi, 15" wheels, and 12" brakes.

I suspect this was no ordinary commuter.
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Posted 2010-05-11 9:44 AM (#222737 - in reply to #222624)
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d500neil - 2010-05-10 5:43 PM Hiya, David! Yeah, this motif is just about the Corporate-Standard wheel finishment. Take a look at yours, though; doesn't it look like the gray was applied on TOP of the white??? That makes NO sense to me---white on top of gray primer; sure, but 'primer' on top of "paint" ????

Vice versa.  The center and all of the rear are gray.  The rim has a hastily applied white section.

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Posted 2010-05-11 3:51 PM (#222797 - in reply to #219816)
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Thanks, Dave; white-over gray(primer) would certainly seem to be the logical protocol, but some cars, like
Robert B's wheel-pic, on page-1 of this thread, appear to show the 'gray' being applied over the white....

Hopefully, Brent can dig-up his OEM dog-dish wheel, and can determine if the body color was applied over
all-gray(primer) or whether the body color was applied over a mass-bulk-painted Corporate-white outer
wheel area.

So, the questions remain:

1) Was the factory provided with pre-painted (White-over-gray) wheels, by the subcontrator?

2) Was the factory provided with ANY paint, or primer, applied onto the wheels that it received from the subcontractor?

3) Was the body-color applied over the Corp-White paint, or was it applied over the gray primer?

4) Was there a special dedicated wheel-painting booth (with its own stash of wheels on-hand, or, were the wheels-to-be-painted shipped individually to that booth) ?

The body-colored wheels were sent away to be mounted and balanced, before they joined up with the bare chassis assembly
station, at absolutely the correct moment when the subject chassis arrived at that station.

There were way too many variables, regarding the tire-type(Rayon/Nylon) and size-style, to have any pre-made-up wheels be
lying around, waiting for a random chassis to arrive, at the chassis assembly station.








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Posted 2010-05-11 6:49 PM (#222828 - in reply to #220186)
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Jim Hoek - 2010-04-25 4:15 PM

 

The following on behalf of Neil.

 

How do 'you' prove a negative-condition or situation
(i.e.: NO 1957-1958 Dodge non-Dog-Dish cars had OEM body-colored wheels)?......

Here's a lot of photos from my stash of 1957-1958 Dodge Reporter newspapers, and several photographs:

1st pic shows an OEM 57 wheel , which shows that the gray color was over-sprayed onto the Eggshell....why THAT second color was applied: I dunno! The tire is 8.00x14"

Next are a progression  of 1957 Dodges.

Then comes a red 1958 CRL vert

The next car is a Coronet, but note its photo caption that says that it was "made available by Dodge P.R. dept.
If ANY car would have been doll'ed-up with body-colored wheels, it would be a car that was owned by Dodge P.R .

Then, there's a green(?) 58 Coro vert.

And then: a fancy-dancy 58 Regal Lancer (with the OEM "Eggshell" wheels on it).

Sid will like the next one: a BLACK 57 CRL, with after-market fender skirts (but, still with them white wheels on it).

Them, another-few 58 Dodges ...white verts don't 'count', as far as having white wheels on them.

Then, there's a few 57 "Show cars".

A 57 black-wall car, on the assembly-line.

A 58 CRL vert (in white)...

But, next: a 58 Custom Sierra wagon, with "Spinners".

Then, a 58 Cori(?) D500

Then, a few 57's, but several black-wall cars seen.

Then: a dark-colored 57 CRL MOVIE-car, with the wheelcovers removed, showing the gray inner wheel areas.

Finally, I've attached an Ebay-screen-photo, showing a dark- colored 57 Coro vert, which is a STRIPPER model, as it has the standard 1-color paint, plain glass, NO radio and no right-side rear view mirror....posed in a local "publicity"
photo 'Cheer-leader' photograph, but, the car has had the 'lower-level' plain wheelcovers attached to it.

My belief is that this car was an OEM dog-dish car (see next
photo..) and that the plain wheel covers were added----if you are "Jazzing-up" the car, from  OEM plain-covers, you would, obviously install the SPINNERS, so, the plain-covers would be an appropriate up-grade to the doggies, especially on a stripper-model.

The other possibility is that the wheels were painted, but, since the wheels are the same COLOR as the body, it is more likely that the doggies were replaced with the plain-covers.

And, finally, I adduce: Charles Phoenix's "Slide of the Week"
which shows a plain-color 1960 Plymouth convertible, which has Dog- Dish hubcaps, with body-colored wheels on it.






WoW!
Women sure were beautiful back then!

That lady in picture 0093 (too bad the photo cropped off her face) and the one in 0099................ to qoute the great Art Carney "VaVaVaVoom!"

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Posted 2010-05-11 8:13 PM (#222843 - in reply to #222797)
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Hopefully, Brent can dig-up his OEM dog-dish wheel, and can determine if the body color was applied over
all-gray(primer) or whether the body color was applied over a mass-bulk-painted Corporate-white outer
wheel area.


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I am going to be no help at all on the WHEELS. I saved the hubcaps, but the wheels are 20 years gone now !

I question whether my wheels were factory installed, or dealer installed. They were 15" and the four on the car were
P&A black and looked to be well done ..... meaning as crusty and awful as they were after sitting in a holly hedge for
many years, they were rusty, but not peeling to show another color underneath. I noticed this because the spare in
the trunk was beige ! Go figger !
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Posted 2010-05-11 11:36 PM (#222886 - in reply to #219816)
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Thanks but, until I see bettrer doc I'll stick w Ross Roy!
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Posted 2010-05-12 11:50 AM (#222947 - in reply to #222797)
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Thanks, Dave; white-over gray(primer) would certainly seem to be the logical protocol, but some cars, like
Robert B's wheel-pic, on page-1 of this thread, appear to show the 'gray' being applied over the white....



I took a closer look at mine .... like Dave says, the whole wheel was painted grey primer and then the white paint was applied (over the primer) to the outer section.
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Vice versa.  The center and all of the rear are gray.  The rim has a hastily applied white section.



That is exactly how the one rim I have is painted.

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Posted 2010-05-12 6:40 PM (#223044 - in reply to #219816)
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Well, thank you, guys---that certainly makes sense; the paint was applied over the (gray) primer.







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Posted 2010-05-16 4:42 PM (#223653 - in reply to #223044)
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Posted 2010-05-20 10:39 PM (#224415 - in reply to #223653)
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Neil asked me to post this, the 1960 Polara Wagon from Mr. Hobbs Vacation with painted body color rims.




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Posted 2010-05-21 6:21 PM (#224546 - in reply to #224415)
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Here is a picture of my 57 Chrysler being picked up, brand new, from the Detroit factory. The wheels are all black and looking at them today, yup, they are all black.

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Posted 2010-05-26 2:26 PM (#225312 - in reply to #219816)
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Neil, seriously, open a photobucket account FOR FREE and load the photos yourself. It is not that hard. In fact, it is easier that translating your posts into English.
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Posted 2010-05-26 2:48 PM (#225314 - in reply to #225312)
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Be careful what you ask for.....

Sir Clive is my filter.

The wheel is from a 1956 Dodge D500, and its suspension, brakes, and wheels are being
sold for only $100.00, as listed elsewhere on our website.










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Very late to the party but I offer this, from the trunk of a very minty low mileage 56 CR

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Here is one in a 57 that is probably original. I have the same thing in my 57 which I believe is original, but mine could of come from a 58 Desoto that was in the same collection, I will never be able to know for sure. We have a 56 in the family that was bought new as well as my 57. I plan to check it when I can. It is a plain jane coronet. Just wanted to give what info I can.



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Here is the original spare I have that could have came from my 57 or a 58 Desoto. (each where in the same collection so I can not be 100% sure. I find it very odd that the grey seems to be clearly painted over the white not the other way around. I also am putting an picture of the owners manual showing a white wheel. I realize it could be airbrushed over, but seems odd that they would go to that extent in the owners manual to show a white wheel in a black and white image. But still that doesn't mean cars from different date did not get different colored wheels. I also have a couple of old pictures of the car when it was more in its prime and probably had the original wheels on it. Of course to throw a wrench it it, it does not have the original spinner hubcaps on it. They where stolen and for a short while the car had the standard ones. I am not sure of this end short of the wheel like the spinners, or go to the edge, but if they end short like the spinners I think the car may have had white wheels originally.



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Posted 2017-04-25 1:55 PM (#538857 - in reply to #219816)
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Painted they are! white... so they match the white walls... case closed
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Posted 2017-04-26 1:17 PM (#538931 - in reply to #219816)
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REREAD the wheels thread AGAIN, as a Dodge dealers son around the "garage" a lot w/ full wheel covers had white/gray wheels hubcap cars were main body color. Dealers dared to change tires from car to car, take off or add wheel covers, yes, even change seats to get the sale!! Even in the 50's technology had advanced far enough to spray bomb wheels which many of us did when buying a used car. D500 Jim showed ample pics of iin the flesh in time photos. MOVE ON!!!!
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Posted 2017-04-26 7:57 PM (#538957 - in reply to #219816)
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Horace, when you say hub cap cars you mean dog dish style right? I am sure mine didnt come with body color, it was either black, or white and grey. It came with spinners originally.
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The proper term is hub cap but it has been bas***dized to dish. You're lucky to have a spinner car, they were regularly stolen. A guy who worked@ the garage owned a 58 CR station wagon white w/ red fins/top w/ spinners. He played in a band @ night so they were stolen. he replaced them but again they were stolen so onto full wheel cover for him.. What is you car & color I had a Black D500 Coronet Lancer 2dr stick then an all red C/R lancer which had been all charcoa before I bought my Pheonix D500
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some on this Dodge:

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Posted 2017-04-27 10:27 PM (#539026 - in reply to #219816)
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Funny you say that, my uncle was at a local garage or gas station with this car shortly after it was bought and a guy said he liked those hub caps. So apparently my uncle told him where it would be at some point and told him to help himself to them and got them covered by insurance. That is why in some of the pictures on here they where not on the car because he ran the regular ones for a while until he got new spinners. I think in all my parts I have another set and a half or two of them. Its odd because some are painted black on the inner circle and some are not. And I cant remember if all of the Knight heads are gold but I am thinking only some are. Here is a picture of the car. Here is a picture of it I took today. I really wish I had painted the wheels white now. I think it would looks so much better with out the black ring between the spinner and the white wall. Can any one tell me why sometimes this page lets me post pictures 500kb and others its 250?

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Posted 2017-04-28 3:21 PM (#539059 - in reply to #219816)
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Black center 58 stainless center 57 I always wondered about the bumper guards nice looking but worthless
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mstrug - 2017-04-27 9:12 PM

some on this Dodge:

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Some on this one too!!
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I think the wheels in the eBay action are probably what mine had new. I messaged the guy to try to get those wheels if the are correct date codes. The red looks awesome but I am trying to keep my car 100% original, and it seems so rare that any of them came with the sadle color wheels. I am going to put an standard cover on a wheel today or tomorrow, if it is the same diameter as a spinner I think I know based on the picture of the car in DC in black and white above that my car came with white wheels just like the eBay car.
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Space Trukin Wagon
Posted 2017-04-30 11:21 PM (#539184 - in reply to #219816)
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Original wheel and spare wheel from a 1960 Dodge



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Space Trukin Wagon
Posted 2017-04-30 11:24 PM (#539185 - in reply to #539184)
Subject: RE: Colored Rims



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Another original spare wheel painted with color by factory. This one from a 1961 Dodge



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horace
Posted 2017-05-02 2:27 PM (#539290 - in reply to #219816)
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In 60 the game changed black wheels for full wheel covers & spinners but colored on hub caps. Keep in mind a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then so new & used car dealers changed wheels & tires to "get the deal done". Car dealers were aggressive & accommodating back in the day compared to present time. Case in point when we were buying a used Challenger last year getting a stripe or replacing mufflers & resonators was tiring, however those 2 dealers received a pass on the sale!
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mstrug
Posted 2017-05-26 6:58 PM (#540954 - in reply to #219816)
Subject: Re: Colored Rims



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57 dodge in an ad for Texaco:

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