He who is first shall be last, the poor man got the better truck

Poor people didn't get 70s trucks until the 80s.

The poverty truck was great! Less parts means less repairs.

If you were poor in the 70s you weren’t buying this truck until it was 5 or more years old. It’s not the poor man’s truck, it’s the cheap guy’s truck

Only someone who was never poor would say something like that.

Oh, the days when trucks were for working. If you were poor in the 70's your truck was from the 50's.

Worked at a Ford dealership in the 1970's. Never heard of the term "poverty wheel" ! Most trucks were trucks, not luxury soccer mom vehicles customers buy because they have more money than common sense !

When trucks were considered trucks. Nothing luxury or complicated.

Dad's truck. 1978 F250 with towing package. Inline 6 with three on the tree. Turd brown and cap on the bed. Transported an entire Boyscout group. Great truck

Nobody, but nobody ever called those poverty wheels.

The inline 6 300 was hard to kill. It didn't even have a timing chain, just straight gear to gear.

Base trucks also didn’t have the chrome trim which means the bodywork was less likely to have road salt build up which means less likely to rot out

we used to call them dog dish hubcaps

Poor + owned a pickup = not poor

I have a 78 f150 and it has those same wheels on it. About three months ago I lost a hubcap on the road but luckily a day later I found it again

As an owner of 3 Ford Trucks, 1966, 1972 and 1977, and several others. Its always nice to see 70's Era trucks that others cherish.

“Poverty wheel?” I sold cars in NYC during the 70’s & 80’s and I’ve never heard of that. I must have been living under a rock

I had an 83 bought new 300 straight 6 in a ford bronco and it was the best 4 wheel truck i ever had with plenty of torque and good on gas ! dammmm I miss that truck!

The basic package fords didnt rust out as fast. All the trim along the body had holes that rotted out faster in Maine.

Those poverty wheels will outlast the Play-Doh wheels they put on Mercedes and Teslas now.

Makes sense. My dad said he grew up poor. With my grandpa's truck staying in the family, it explains why he had the random hub cap.

Mr. Majestic couldn't keep his hub caps on.

The 300/240 i6 on fords was pretty much the best. So good they put it in f350s... Dump trucks... Unlike the 302 v8 and others

These days, there's no such thing as a best truck. Theyre all garbage.

My Dad bought a basic Ford F100 no radio 3 on the tree straight 6 240 l believe. Bought new for 2700 dollars.

I always loved the 10 hole aluminum wheels that ford offered back then.

Poverty caps did a better job of actually staying on and with trim rings they looked pretty good.

Best trucks ever built also. Last forever. My uncle still has his and all original with original miles on the engine. I believe he is up to 700k miles slightly smokes but still runs great.

The days of steel wheels matching the main body color!

I've owned a 78 3/4 T- 460 CID , 76 3/4 T 390 CID w/ bellybox , 78 1/2 T w/460 CID and two 89s. Reliable trucks , easy to repair !

Never heard em called poverty wheels. We just called em steel wheels with caps and rings. The chevy camaro had the coolest ones if you had the center caps and beauty rings

My '91 F150 had steels with crap hubcaps. Eventually, I ended up with the FoMoCo center caps and later the beauty rings. I actually prefer these to aluminum rims!!

We always called these dog dish hubcaps. Worked great for food and water bowls!!! LOL

I have a modern version of this, a 2012 F150 XL long bed. It has such amazing features such as rubber floormats, hand crank windows, and steel wheels that have some of the paint left. It has no backseat, no turbocharger, no keyless entry, no power locks, no satellite radio, no CD player, and no carpet.

This channel is comedy gold.

When my dad was a kid he had a robin egg blue 1978 f250 2wd inline six manual with granny low single cab long bed. Still looking for one.

"being poor was a good thing" 😂okay

That cog pattern almost makes the wheel look futuristic, or like when we were kids and drew mechanical devices that don't make sense but works fine for decorations.

I loved 70s Ford trucks. I learned to drive a stick on a '72 F-100, 302 with a 3 on the tree.

Got my '72 C10 when my neighbor passed. RIP Mr. Charlie. Restored it with a 350 mild cam, 700r4 for pulling the pontoon. Brother has a new truck and asked me when I was getting one. I said never.

I never heard that term "poverty wheels" and I grew up in the 70s.

As a kid, finding a hubcap on the side of the road was like finding a pot of gold

Never heard it called the poverty wheel, we called them dog dishes

My 79 f100 short bed had em. They were the flat ones that say ford motor company, and they were painted not chrome. Only option my truck had was a 302, and a heater. It was radio delete no ac,

Hey that dog dish cap was the best part of an old ford truck. The only thing that didn’t rust

My dad had a 73 camper special with a refrigerator box on the back. Drove it for catering when I worked for him. F250 is my favorite.

Trucks and cars in the 70s were actually made to last. ❤

Poor people couldn't afford a new truck. Being cheap was what got you the best wheels.

That center cap was actually an upgrade. The truck behind this one doesn't have the center cap, that was the lower priced version.

Not about being poor, just not spending extra money

damn that's where my dog dishes went to !!!

No, the "poorest man" in the 70s didn't have a truck. This was the working man's truck. These sound like words from someone who's never known struggle and has no clue what poor actually means.

My dad had those hubcaps on a ‘91 f250 (bricknose) straight 6 manual. One came off when he got hit by a lady in a civic, and her car ran it over and squashed it. He made sure to get it from the road, banged it back out, and put it back on. Only damage on his truck from that wreck was the now-dented hubcap, and one big scuff of blue paint from the civic on his front bumper. The civic got totaled. I learned how to drive stick in that truck before I could reach the pedals properly. There’s a picture of maybe 4 year old me in the driver’s seat with my head barely sticking above the driver’s side window.

I remember seeing those on lots of Chevy and Ford vans, pickup trucks, etc as a little kid in the early ‘90s too! Miss them.

It does look better, just wrong brand man! Especially those old fords, their parking breaks were horrible for reliability

we rode bicycles and had a life.

I had a 78 F-150 crew cab 4x4. It was quite expensive for the time. I believe it was $16k back then. It was a 351 with a 4 speed manual.

That is the same style as came on my 74 roadrunner, they're painted body color and everyone loves them. The Road Runner was always a base level, no frills, go-fast car... Period. 😊

if your were poor in the 70's you were driving a clapped out 1960's land yacht that you hoped the frame didn't break in two and you didn't die from affixation

When i was a kid i thought those dog dish hubcaps looked like goofy the cartoon character.....man i was a weird child lol 😂

I miss my 1977 black on black F100 short bed!

Bros never had to struggle a day in his life and it shows

Funny story: I was 8 and we were buying the first and only new family car we ever got; 1965 Impala wagon, 283 Powerglide base except I suggested the full hubcap option to set the car apart from the dog-dish base look. It changed the overall look and was a running family story for years to come; a styling feather in my cap. I think white walls too. That ever-so-popular Chevy 'blue' and black vinyl.

The poorest man didn't get a truck at all, He took the bus.

Come, meet the man who is poor, yet rich. ✌️🤘

Yeezy been saying that that look was dope for years

My dad had a 1977 Ford F150. Got my arm caught down in the post holes on the bedside. Lol parents couldn't get me to close my hand to slip my arm out. Dad went to my uncles house up the road to get a sawzall to cut me out. Luckily my mom got to me close my hand to get me out before dad got back. For him and the trucks sake. Lo!! Still remember the high beam switch on the floor. Can't begin to count the tons of wood that truck hauled to keep us warm in the winter. In my mind this is what a truck is. Screw these new tanks.

Being poor was actually a good thing because 60 years later people look at the hub caps you had and think “yeah that looks pretty cool”.

If they weren’t popular in their own time, how is that lucky today 😂🎉🎉

You know you're rich when you say being poor is actually a good thing

I’d give anything to have those days back.

Life long car guy, stop making shit up. No one has EVER said "povery wheels"

A similar thing happened in Britain in the 70's. Fords were fitted with Rostyle wheels, which were steel with square slots around the rim and painted black and silver. They were ten a penny in the 70's and 80's and were often thrown away in favour of flashy alloys. Trying to find a rust free set nowadays is like trying to find hens' teeth.

that's what a dream driveway looks like

Being poor is a good thing because it means you probably work and contribute to society. "Jimmy you better study hard or your gonna end up like him" yeah jimmies dads job isn't real, he works in middle management and does nothing, the guy he's shit talking is the back bone of our society. If every CEO disappeared and no one could replace them without disappearing too we would be fine, if that happened with garbage collectors or truck drivers or janitors we wouldn't last a week.

I really miss my 1960’s model dodge step-side. With the ‘Metal dashboard’ & the AM radio that worked great.

I never heard of it being called the “poverty wheel”. When you bought your ten year old rust bucket the first thing you did was buy wheels. Dog dish hubcaps were hated. But only rich people had four matching wheels because you didn’t have money to buy four matching new ones and tires all at the same time. The new Broncos with the steely look alloys are recalling nostalgia for a sentiment that was never there. Base wheels were too skinny and the cars and trucks were horrible to drive. The tires folded under when you tried to drive hard through corners. Poverty sucked then and still sucks today.

Thank you Ford Motor Co.

Man, those are some mighty find looking trucks ya got there my friend. Great video

The good'ol dog bowls, that's what gran'papy calleded thems anyway

We got them in 1991 too. They ran for a long while. Base models arent just because we’re poor. Most of the time its because we are only buying what we need and want nothing more. I still havent bought anything more than a XL.

People are ahead of that these days. The rarest are the factory transit wheels that the dealer is supposed to swap out and send back.

"Back in my day, if you were living in poverty, there was a brand new truck you could afford. Nowadays, if you buy a new truck, it puts you in poverty."

Being poor was never a good thing. The cope is wild

The OG five star ⭐️. Still my favorite alloy mag style of the 90’s

Those weren’t poverty hubcaps, they were complementary dog bowls.

Dog dish hub caps Myself and friend rebuilt a couple x-tended cabs, usually F 250's during early 2000's The best one I bought used, owned for almost a decade was a 1979, rust free, F450 XLT, dually crew cab with all the toys A BigFoot camper onto it, ran it hard, that beast never whimpered all around N. America Should never havr sold it

3 pedals, a gear drive inline six, and a 1 ton chassis was all you needed to get almost any job done.

Out of touch people with money cosplaying poor people nowadays

Needs the beauty rings with them.

You didn't have one of these trucks till you spent a weekend in the driveway on your back replacing the clutch.

Old man in louisiana referred to that truck as a "Hot Water-6", since it only had a 6 cylinder and a heater.

I wasn't poor in the 70s but thanks to a wife, who was quite good with OPM (other people's money... namely mine), I managed to end up poor by the 1980s. After learning a few hard lessons in trust, fiduciary responsibilities, and fidelity, I managed to claw my way back to a respectable standard of living. But after my "Big D" and into the 1990s, I was privy to experience these "poverty wheels" and glad to acquire a couple of them. Their former glory long faded, these old girls had plenty to give in service and reliability and easy and inexpensive to maintain. They got me through some hard times and I am not ashamed to have been associated with them and the stigma of the poverty they symbolized. These technological wonders we now drive actually cost more than my first house, two cars, a motorcycle, and fishing boat all put together. I have spent from $65,000 to $94,000 for my trucks since the last ten years... Let's just say it's not the best deals I've ever made. Heck my first wife may have been cheaper? Well maybe 😅😅😅.

You can use some SOS pads to get the blue off the white walls

Those caps always belonged on a van in my mind.

I love this style always have . Had it on my sixty nine Ford Ranger long bed. Two fourth six cylinder three on the tree loved that truck

Now you got middle class kids cosplaying as poor people

Having steelies made you fearless - replacements were cheap - fixing them was quite easy, too. Sprucing them up was the cheapest spray paint you could buy.

Those hubcaps were so ugly. But I respect the fact you like them!

Being poor is never a good thing, but I get it, the truck is loved , now and then ;)