paul,i know rares sold them but i dont know who made them as i wasnt much interested in that repro to genuine stuff differences back then...from memory the stickers were also slightly different....
just out of interest do you have any pics of the original 1971 gts centre caps?..basically first few months of production only...if not ill put some up.
I thought that the loins looked a little bit different when I looked at them last night
but I put it down to the bad lighting at the time.
No I don't have any pictures of the early ones.
I have been told about them but I have never seen one.
I would be interested to see just what they look like.
Cheers Paul.
Last edited by HQ SS; 18-06-2011 at 12:28 PM.
Paul..feel free to use these pictures..these are on my hq gts350 coupe which is a 6/71..die cast gts centre caps used for only around first 6 months of production..
I've got a nos one that im trying to find amongst all my crap so i can give you a decent inside and outside shot..
Last edited by Alien DNA; 01-06-2018 at 05:03 PM.
Thanks for that, its good to see one in the flesh as such.
They must be as rare as rocking horse shite if they were made for such a short time.
Cheers Paul.
Found it......
Byron gave me this cap which is nos but has some pitting..story goes that these caps would fall off because to keep them on you had to peen over the inner edge which is die cast so it would crack and break..
I found the 4 correct 71 gts rims and 3 caps with a full set of nuts on ebay around 4 years before i found my hq gts..me thinks around 2001..i paid $300 dollars for them which at the time was expensive but i wanted the 3 caps as i knew what they were and how rare...the 4th cap i also found on ebay but it was advertised as a gemini ? cap..cheap it was...and then byron gave me this one when i bought the 350 coupe which as it turned out was missing its original wheels...happy days..
To keep these caps on the rims i have used gasket ultra blue as i dont want to loose any...
Last edited by Alien DNA; 01-06-2018 at 05:05 PM.
Great pictures, wow that sure does show the difference between them now.
Peening then on would a fun job to do and also it means basically breaking it off if you had to put the rim on a tyre machine.
I see that the loin looks to be the same as the next ones so no small changes on that side of things.
Cheers Paul.
these might be worth the effort to someone
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....=STRK:MEWAX:IT
This probably will be a really stupid question to most but why do those centre caps have no clips on the back? :errf:
thanks for that link al...they look daggy but i can see value in a couple of them so i sniped the auction...Originally Posted by hqgts
just looking at the auction bidders on ebay and the guy i beat also had a snipe happening as the bid time is exact to mine...i figured i would pay 201 for them and it worked coz he didnt snipe enough..
Last edited by ozbox; 20-06-2011 at 05:26 PM.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks