A hubcap or hub cap is a decorative disk on an automobile wheel that covers at minimum the central portion of the wheel, called the hub. An automobile hubcap covers the wheel hub and the lug nuts to r
A threaded brass hubcap on a cart wheel with artillery style hub
Various automobile hubcaps
Display of 1920s automobile hubcaps and a removal tool
Center small hubcap with automaker's logo
The spinner on automobile wheels refers to knock-off hub nuts or center caps. They may be the actual, or intended to simulate, the design used on antique vehicles or vintage sports cars.
Hubcap
…with a lip halfway to the middle and the center would say "Hudson", "Hudson Eight", or "Terraplane". This configuration differs from the "knock-off" spinners found on some racing cars and cars equipped with true wire wheels. While the knock-off spinner resembles an early hubcap, its threads also retain the…
Two bladed spinner on a wire wheel
1967 AMC simulated wire wheel cover with spinner
Dodge four-bladed "spinner" wheel cover