Early69 RS SS 396 Camaro with goofy hubcaps

[Charley Lillard]

What is a XJ ?

[Charley Lillard]

Waiting to hear from Gary...

[Steve Shauger]

John,

The original owner installed gauges aftermarket tach and gauges and bet those wires are for the amp gauge. I owned the car 16 years but not 100% sure... about 95%

[NorCam]

Steve, not to digress, but do you still own that Cortez Silver 69 at this time?

[Steve Shauger]

Originally Posted by NorCam

Steve, not to digress, but do you still own that Cortez Silver 69 at this time?

No that was part of the deal to buy this site. Charley owns that car. I don't know what was I thinking

[Charley Lillard]

I'm looking for a YJ made August 68 or close. None found yet.

[camarojoe]

Probably weren't any 14x7 rally wheels available yet, (which is why you can't find any dated that early) so any SS cars that had rally wheels ordered instead got silver painted 14x7 XT's with dog dish caps and trim rings...which was the closest the factory could provide for a 'rally" type wheel treatment without actually having the 14x7 rally wheels available, and to keep production moving. The dealer knew the guy wanted rallys and added the derby tops to the dog dish caps before delivery hoping the buyer wouldn't notice they weren't the rally wheels he ordered.

I believe the silver wheels, trim rings, and dog dish caps all are original to this blue car, nothing was stolen, and no "Cortez Silver SS car with XT wheels" was part of the mix...but there is no way they screwed those derby tops to the hubcaps on the assembly line. You're kidding yourself if you think they had someone at the factory taking rally wheel center cap parts and screwing them to dog dish hubcaps. That was done at the dealership. That's also why no other cars with this setup have ever been found, photographed, or heard about.

[Charley Lillard]

I agree it most likely came with the trim rings and dog dish caps. But owner states it came new with the goofy caps. The goofy caps are mounted perfectly with no extra holes drilled where they messed up etc. We will never know for sure what happened.

[Steve Shauger]

Just to add, the wheels were definitely painted argent silver, NOT cortez silver. I've always believed it came as pictured below and think it looks better than with rallys!

[camarojoe]

Originally Posted by Steve Shauger

Just to add, the wheels were definitely painted argent silver, NOT cortez silver. I've always believed it came as pictured below and think it looks better than with rallys!

Yep, that's how the car looked until someone at the dealership added the derby tops to the poverty caps before delivery to try to make them look like the rallys the owner ordered and was expecting when he got there to pick up his new car.