May issue

What kind of hubcaps that are on the 50 chevy on the cover?  

Hi I think this is what you looking for

baby moon hubcaps
DEFINITION:
These brilliantly chromed solid steel baby moons (baby moon hub caps) are center caps that fit a standard steel wheel for older Pre-1990 American  cars and trucks!  

Having time on my hands I thought I'd expend on this subject (need a job, or a wife, to keep me off the internet!)

The item was called "Baby Moon" but the reason is a part of U.S. social history in regards to the car culture during the time period the item was introduced.

Many people associate the item to Dean Moon, best known for his "Moon" spun aluminum FULL wheel covers. Before his product you would see flat wheel covers on "lakes" cars that were either cut from flat sheet stock or modified from the washing machine lids of the time period.

Many people, when seeing one of Dean's covers that had thought it looked like a full moon on a clear night (the aluminum oxide would take on various colors of grey). Dean, having the family name "Moon", got free advertising.

However he did not have any connection to the "baby moon", most of those were produced by Cal Custom and were chrome plated steel.

So the term "baby moon" had nothing to do with Moon's full sized cover Instead the name comes from people thinking the small caps looked like you were being "mooned" by a baby. Well, back here in the Mid West during that time period the terms "mooned", "mooning", being mooned", were not generally known by our "polite society".

Which is why the more common name for the item,"B.A.'s" was confusing to us living towards the "Right Coast". "B.A." means, well, the caps were small and they had had the shape/texture of a "baby's ..."

Having visited the LA-LA land area during the summers of 62 and 64 I had heard the expression and took it back to the Mid West where it "shocked" people.

Related: The guys in the west coast car culture of that time often sported "cropped" hair cuts, in other words their hair was long on the sides and simply pulled straight back and cut. The given name for that hair style was "D.A."

Why? Because the ends of the pulled back side hair looked like the folded wings/flight feathers which could be seen on a duck's...

Times have really changed since the mid 60's, the Mid West isn't as "polite" as it was back then but memories of "B.A.'s" and D.A.'s" have faded from memory.