Hubcap Jones

Hubcap Jones is a character role-played by MikeTheBard.
==General Information==
Hubcap Jones is a popular musician in the city and the first music star of Los Santos. He has won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the NoPixel Music Awards in 2022. 
== Background==
Hubcap Jones is the lead singer of the band Love Fist, Hubcap is a septuagenarian who has been on tour for 50+ years. He is married to his wife Karen, whom he wed when they were both young (he was 20 and Karen was 18). They are in an open relationship and Karen lives in London, England, but visits Hubcap in California occasionally. Hubcap enjoys performing live concerts all around the city of Los Santos, including Dean's World and Tequi-la-la. Hubcap had a love for all drugs, and was often seen smoking a joint or enjoying harder drugs. He has had a few years of relative sobriety lately, however.
While giving Barry Benson a drive around the city, he showed him locations and gave unknowingly outdated advice on how to break in to homes, while watching out for either house alarms or dogs, stating that he once dabbled in crime. His criminal activity in Los Santos slowly ramped up from borrowing local cars to robbing the vault and hitting the oil rig with several gangs.
Hubcap is very loving towards his fans to the point where he will sign just about anything a fan asks to be sign. Anytime Hubcap signs or texts anyone/anything thing he will write long messages that contain at least the following: "This is Hubcap Jones" "Love, Hubcap Jones" "P.S. " and "Again this is Hubcap Jones."
Hubcap has A LOT of children, he has so many, that he doesn't know about most of them! If you find someone with the last name Jones, there is a BIG chance it's one of Hubcap's children. He has connected with 12 children, 6 grandkids and 1 great grandchild, so far in Los Santos.
He loves animals and goes as far to try not to hurt any, if at all possible. During an interview for a pet shop position he stated he wants to hug all the kitties and puppies, as well as saying that he has done cocaine with a ferret and other animals.
His band Love Fist has over 800.000 songs! Hubcap is sadly the only living member left from the band. He has stated the deceased members of Love Fist are buried in his cocaine vault. In September 2022, while in a fugue state after falling off a cliff, Hubcap admitted to his grown children and grandson that he killed them. "I killed my bandmates. I'm the lead singer of Love Fist now, fuckface!" He has no memory of saying this.
==Gang Affiliations==
Hubcap's journey in crime began with becoming an associate of the BBMC. He quickly developed a close relationship with the Bondi Boys, being invited along on boosts and bank jobs. He grew particularly close to Edbert Ropeburn and Chip Wheeler, as well as his son Barry Benson and grandson TJ Walker. After a devastating ordeal when his son Barry shot the leader of the BBMC, Irwin Dundee, someone whom Hubcap also considered a son and offered to give his life to save, Hubcap decided he would not be satisfied until he was wearing denim. He considered the BBMC his family. After ten long weeks of training for 11 hours a day, learning to drive, developing his crime skills, backing up the BBMC in gun fights with cops, he was denied a jacket by three no votes, Finn, Stevie and Collin. It sent shockwaves through the BBMC and fractured trust and loyalties deeply. Barry attempted to talk to the three and get his father another hangaround phase, and although he was able to win over Collin and Stevie, Finn was a hard no. Despite the no votes, Hubcap maintained his friendship with the club although he moved out of Vespucci and into the BATH house in the countryside with his son Barry, daughter Andi, and grandson TJ. He also finished his time in Los Santos before the great exodus (3.0 finale) by riding as the Tailgunner in the convoy of club cars and hellions with the BBMC as the rode through the city toward one final battle with the LSPD. Saving Chip from arrest during the battle, Chip welcomed Hubcap home and told him he found his way back to where he was supposed to be, with the BBMC. 
A month after leaving his BBMC hangaround phase, Hubcap was riding in a car with a group of friends when a BSK member stepped in front of their vehicle. They stopped to talk to him and he spilled the tea that BSK is planning on attacking the Lost and stealing sprays because of an old feud due to the Lost stealing BSK's meth lab. Hubcap, being a friend of Rudi Rinsen's, leader of the Lost MC, scheduled a meeting and told Rudi about what BSK was planning. During the meeting, Hubcap expressed how lost he had been since the BBMC turned him down, and asked if he could find a home in the Lost. Rudi presented this idea to the rest of the club, and Al, the Chaplain, threw his weight and reputation behind the idea of jacketing Hubcap immediately. Once Hubcap was a prospect, he quickly learned what a bad spot the club was in, not simply financially but in an organizational sense. Hubcap began planning how best to help the club succeed. After getting patched, two months later, during his first Church as a patch member, Hubcap delivered a presentation about how to revitalize the Lost including and plans to expand recruitment and priorities to increase profit for the club. It was a resounding success with the majority of the club supporting his ideas, at least on the surface. Hubcap began recruiting and brough in Willy, Andy and Oshiera. During this time he learned that James DeLuca, another Lost prospect, is actually his biological son. He quickly impressed the rest of the club who voted him in as Road Captain and high command. It turned out however, that the club did not intend to honor his high command position that they voted on. Hubcap accepted this at first, as it wasn't his main priority, he simply wanted to help the club succeed and reclaim some glory. Half a year after becoming Road Captain, tensions formed between members of the Lost. Hubcap attempted to counsel members through their issues with each other. The rift was greater than he thought however, and it split wide open when two members of the Lost, Sassa and Lottie, conspired behind his back and called the BBMC to the Lost club house to find out why he was never prospected. It was revealed during this meeting and subsequent talks with other Lost members after, that they both had harboured contempt and resentment for his quick rise through the ranks and his new ideas for the club's success. After their treachery was revealed, VP Gary suggested Hubcap stay out of it until a Lost executive court takes place, so Hubcap maintained his distance from the club, waiting to hear about the details of the court. It took nearly six weeks for either of them to face punishment, during which time Hubcap became disillusioned with the leadership of the Lost. Hubcap waited for leadership to call him and sent a message with the new Chaplain, and his former Tailgunner, Oshiera for leadership to contact him but no message was ever received. Hubcap left the Lost without being blooded out. He was part of an exodus of members that resulted in several members leaving and several more never returning to the city. 
Hubcap was partially responsible for the foundation of the Piss Babies. While driving around the city near the Alta Street apartments one day, Hubcap ran across two new citizens of Los Santos who had just flown into the city, Armani Macaroni and Andino Vidal. While driving around shit-stirring and committing petty crimes, Hubcap declared that he was going to call the two the Piss Babiez. And thus the gang was born. They made Hubcap an honorary member months later when he saw an advertisement in the yellow pages placed by Drake and called him. 
== Vehicles==
Zion Classic
 
Given to Hubcap as a Father's Day gift by his son Barry Benson, who converted it for him as a gift after his previous Zion Classive, a vin scratch, was impounded and crushed.
Sultan MK III
 
The Sultan MK III was originally bought for the club from PDM for $140,000 under Barry's name. The club quickly decided to make the car their main job and getaway vehicle, and painted it midnight blue with an ultra blue pearl to match the rest of their cars. In order help pay off club loans, Barry sold the Sultan for $150,000 to then-hangaround Finley Milton. Finn used the vehicle reliably for jobs as a hangaround, and painted it Bondi blue after he was prospected. Some time after Lil Cap became a hangaround, Finn sold him the car for $137,000 to use on jobs. After he became a prospect, he traded the car with Hubcap for a Declasse Tulip for a club car.
==Quotes==
* "Anyways...."
*"Yes, Tomathy?"
*"Shelly, no more pranking!"
*"You got cocaine?"
*"I love cocaine!"
*"Barry, Barry quite contrary. How does your garden grow?" - When answering a phone call from Barry
*"Barry, Barry cows make dairy..."
*"Barry is a good boy."
==Gallery==
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