police car wheel question

OK well the auction I was watching is over... but for future reference can anyone answer my question anyhow? I had a set of MoPar dog dishes that I thought would work, but they didn't quite fit right; lost one after about 5 miles and then another one a couple miles later. I think they were just about 9" in diameter but don't hold me to that. Please tell me that I'm not limited to *only* the caps with the holes in them... just not the look I'm going for.

thanks,

nate

MoPar also offered wheel centers for their rallye wheels that would likely fit your rims. IIRC, they are a bolt-on affair - i.e., slip them on with the wheel, then put the lug nuts on over them to hold them down. I don't recall any part numbers, but I think they came in both black and argent, although each color had the same p/n so you never knew what color you were going to get. You may even still be able to get them from DC.

Do a google image search for mopar rally wheels. The centers look like the ones you see here

. Youmight also check with Stockton Wheel and it looks like these guys have something that might work for$65 each, about 2/3 the way down the page. You can also find them here . I'm pretty sure they'd fit on the cop wheels, and they sure look a lot better than the dog-dish hubcaps. I've got a set of the cop wheels also, but never have gotten around to getting hubcaps for 'em, since they've been in storage for the last 20 years.

HTH

If you're talking about 80's M-body copcar wheels, then there are a number of alternatives to the "siren" cap with the ring of holes around the outside. Pretty much any Mopar dog-dish from the 70s should work. There are plain brushed dishes (like the 'siren' style without the holes), versions with the Dodge Fratzog in the center, versions with the Plymouth Sailing Ship icon in the center, etc. Some are pretty hard to come by, but they're out there. I run the ones with the Dodge Fratzog sourrounded by a red circle on my '66 Polara

I think are actually from circa 1969-70. The easiest to come by are definitely the "siren" style because they were used on the 80s copcars, but I do see the plain brushed version more often than anything else but the siren dishes.

Yes, I believe they are the M-body wheels. Once I get home I'll post a link to some pics of the car so you can see what I'm talking about. In an ideal world I'd be running some kind of plain, no-logo stainless dog dishes and trim rings.

Actually, what would be cool is if I could use the '55 Stude dog dishes, so it would look stock except for the big fatty tires and cooling slots, but they are considerably larger in diameter than the nubs on the wheel. I did try the caps you refer to above (the plain brushed DD's similar to what you call the "siren" style) and two of them popped off almost immediately; they apparently were just a hair too small in diameter, which confuses me.

nate

Personally, I'd go with the black or argent wheel centers, black or argent lug nuts and black or argent trim rings, but I'm the 'sleeper' kind...

here's a few pics...

The front wheels in those pics are Ford; I found another pair of cop car wheels because the plan all along was to run dog dishes (I figure drum brakes need all the cooling they can get.)

nate

Hmmm. That is odd. There are 4 "nubs" on the copcar wheels, TWO of them have deeper slots than the other two. Normal dog dish installation procedure is to hook the DD under one of the nubs with a deep slot, then whack it onto the other one with a deep slot. If the dish is distorted, it might not hold well.