Chevy Pickup Trucks by MotorBooks International, 1996, p41 has a picture of a
red 55 NAPCO that looks like it's optioned out and that the owner took great
lengths to make it original. It has black painted wheels with white hubcaps
on it, and the fronts have the center out of them but look stamped not cut.
However the hub caps look like they are off of a later model--67-72?
Mark Noakes
58/56 Suburban
Knoxville, TN
In a message dated 2/18/99 2:35:55 AM, you wrote:
<<Good question! I don't know. I have a photo of a 59 Chevy Suburban 4X4
that is a factory promotional still. The truck does have locking hubs, and
the only hubcaps on it are on the rear. I have also seen a set of GMC
"baby moons" that were on a 3/4-ton AD NAPCO Powr-Pak (1954 I think) that
had the center of the front caps drilled/milled out to clear the hubs. It
looked a little rough to be a factory thing, but it may have been. My
brochures aren't any help, they only show trucks with the hubcaps over the
top. I suppose you could just pop the hubcap off when you needed to engage
the hubs. Some models (there are at least four different manufacturers) of
the locking hubs are probably short enough to clear the hubcap. My GMC
advertisement shows all the trucks with hubcaps over the front wheel too.
Does anyone else have some insight into this? Bob Adler maybe?
Kevin Lake 56 napco/burb GMC >>
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