A hubcap is a decorative disk on a wheel that covers all of the lug nuts that attach a wheel to an automobile. Often a hubcap will bear the trademark or symbol of the maker of the automobile or the maker of the hubcap. Early hubcaps were often make of chrome, and many had decorative, albeit non-functional spokes. Hubcaps were immortalized in the Art Deco styling of the spire of the Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan.
