![]() ![]() Rather than criss cross one other, spokes on these wheel covers now ran parallel to each other – perfectly straight travelling outward from center hub to edge. They continued unchanged on the Corvair through 1963, and on the Avanti through 1964.ġ963: A new style of wire wheel cover debuts simultaneously on the 1963 Buick Riviera, Chevrolet Impala SS, Ford Fairlaine, and Ford Falcon. While both car models were new with innovative styling, the wire wheel covers they came with used the same criss-crossing spoke pattern that had been popular in the previous decade. The timeline below will chart the changes from year to year during the 1960s…ġ962: Chevrolet’s Corvair (introduced for 1960) and the Studebaker Avanti (introduced mid-1962) were the first new cars of this decade offered with wire wheel covers. Slideshow and high-resolution still pictures showing how 1960s wire wheel cover designs progressed through the decade are further below. The second phase of wire wheel cover design had begun… Three short years later in 1963, factory wire wheel covers were making a comeback, all featuring a completely new look with parallel spokes and “spinner caps” that emphasized sportiness first and luxury second. Style=”display:inline-block width:728px height:90px” So as the 1950s turned into 1960, wire wheel covers fell out of vogue for a short period. Popular as they had been in the mid-’50s, automakers began to drop wire wheel covers from their option sheets as the decade approached its end – feeling their now classic look (or “old-fashioned” as some described it) did not go with sleeker, wider, longer, lower finned body styling that began about 1957. Similar to the way the earliest automobiles resembled horse-driven carraiges because no other starting point of reference existed, the first generation of 1950s wire wheel covers featured criss-crossing spokes that resembled actual wire wheels from 1920s and 30s automobiles. During the previous decade, American automakers equipped them on everything from Buicks and Oldsmobiles to sleek sports cars such as the Kaiser Darrin and Nash-Healey Lemans. (1967 AMC Marlin shown)īy 1960, wire wheel covers had become a fixture on American roads. Two- or three-prong spinners similar to ones on MGs, Jaguars, and other sports cars were fitted on many to create a performance look. ![]() Beginning in the early-1960s, straight parallel spokes replaced criss-crossing ones that had been popular in the 1950s. ![]()
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