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These were cast one at a time at the Atlas Alloy foundry, down the road from the Canonsburg dealership...
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While scrounging parts for our Y-Vega, I've ran across a few of those covers *without* the Yenko crest...everything else was absolutely identical, except for that corner. I've got a picture or two somewhere on one of our computers if I can find it. So, do you suppose Atlas did these non-Yenko covers also, or did Atlas copy another company's design?
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What you found was probably not from Atlas Foundry, but actually the type of cover Yenko used to create the casting for his. He removed a few fins on one, recessed a Yenko body emblem, and created a one-piece casting from it. Atlas also used other wheels as the "molds" to duplicate in creation of the "Atlas" wheels. Atlas Foundry "duplicated" things Yenko made and brought them, rather than creating parts from scratch... they actually weren't even specifically in the automotive parts business, aside from what Yenko brought to them to make. Did the ones you had have the recessed area in the center like the Yenko one? I could swear I have pics of one without the flat spot in the center, but any of them I've ever seen in person had the rectangular flat spot in the center. Dog, I don't know anything about the truck or the painting on the side... I'd guess it was probably something to poke fun at the competition...Don loved to do that!
