[boodlefoof]

So everyone, I'm planning ahead a bit again...

To go along with my overall plan to have my '63 Tempest look (to the casual observer) like something that (more-or-less) could have come from the factory, I want to run some black-painted steel wheels with the factory poverty caps. While I have the caps, the original wheels are long gone... and, even if I did have the original wheels, my bolt pattern has now changed to 5 x 4.75''.

I'm considering trying to find some steel wheels with a 5 x 4.75'' bolt pattern that I can then modify to accept the factory caps. At first impression, it seems to me as though one could simply weld a ring to the front of another steel wheel, which ring provides the correct outside diamter for the hubcap to grab on to.

Has anybody here done this or something like it?