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Vintage tires
Is there any interest in vintage tires? The picture below are my original steel rims for my 68 bird with the tires that were on it when I bought it back in 96. I am going to remove the tires and refinish the rims since I am thinking of putting them back on. I think the tires are from the 70s. I really don't need them cluttering my garage so if these have no interest, they will just go to tire disposal. Granted they are not an OEM tire but just cool vintage.
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1968 Firebird 400HO convertible 1971 Trans Am 4-speed, white/blue |
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They aren't safe to drive on and they aren't OE for a trailer queen that isn't driven. I'd say they are worthless, other than wall art.
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Well maybe someone living near “Surrounded By Reality“ will come by and take them off your hands for a fairgrounds cruiser.
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1964 Tempest Coupe LS3/4L70E/3.42 1964 Le Mans Convertible 421 HO/TH350/2.56 2002 WS6 Convertible LS1/4L60E/3.23 |
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Day Two fans are out there. If I had a weathered but original paint mid-70s car I'd be all over those. A-Team replica builders would love to find a set of Truck TAs.
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They look great but I've had an old tire that looked good blow out at speed and I can tell that you I wouldn't touch 'em or a car that I planned to drive more than 25 mph. It was on a '68 bug and it beat the hell out of that fender. Fortunately, it was on the rear. I expect the results would have been worse if it had been on the front.
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Greg Reid Palmetto, Georgia |
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Yes, they are pretty much petrified are I would definitely never try to drive on them. They would be just vintage wall art.
Surrounded by reality is Madison, WI area.
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1968 Firebird 400HO convertible 1971 Trans Am 4-speed, white/blue |
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I’d do a search and see if they were ever on anything from the factory, even still someone would buy them even just to roll a car around but there’s an a$$ for every seat it’s just how much will that a$$ pay. I had a tire lose its tread on my 69 convertible I had just put my NOS rocker moldings on temporarily until I found a seatbelt driver set . Needless to say it destroyed my rocker molding on That side . Litterlally drove it ONCE w those on it.
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If they’re period correct for a hot rod or custom car someone will want them, being safe for highway use isn’t a big issue when you’re just trailering a car to shows or just slowly driving around the fairgrounds.
Here’s a set of General Dual 90 triple thin stripe whitewalls that came on a set of Hurst wheels I bought about 10 years ago. Those tires were definitely the first and only set of tires ever mounted on those wheels so they were close to 50 years old when I removed them. I sold that set of half-century old tires for $600. The guy who bought them knew I was selling them for display only but he said he was going to cruise around some shows with them on his car.
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1964 Tempest Coupe LS3/4L70E/3.42 1964 Le Mans Convertible 421 HO/TH350/2.56 2002 WS6 Convertible LS1/4L60E/3.23 |
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Use for rollers around the shop? Or throw caution to the wind and use them for smoker tires? I bought some old bias ply tires and plan to burn them down. My 69 GTO quarters are rusty so who cares if they blow. I want to send some smoke signals.
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Perfect for that kind of stuff and therefore deserve more than the dumpster. Love those triple whitelines by the way.
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Greg Reid Palmetto, Georgia |
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I've always thought BF Goodrich should come out with a Radial T/A that uses the original sidewall letter font, for people who are trying to recreate an accurate 'day two' look from the early 1970s.
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I had an old TA radial blow out while static in garage, on one of my 68 Birds.
No damage but scary when it happens late at night.
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Had a set of Dunlops on my GTO from back in the 80's. The car had not seen a lot of miles in recent years; tires looked great. One day about 8 years ago or so I happened to look at the car and the tread had just peeled off the tire and was lying on the garage floor. Sure, age was extreme, but Sobering thoughts, none the less.
George
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They can't even make a tire that the letters don't turn brown.
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I barely drove on these 30 year old tires. The rubber turned into goo just sitting on the garage floor.
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One of the 4 Firestone 721 steel belted radials, that are basically new, but made in 1976 and never driven, just blew the tread off sitting in the pile. Looking closely at the tread on the other 'good' tires you can see belt shift as you follow the tread around.
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I started a "sidewall" collection years ago. They dont take up much space and many are so vintage cool..
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I've still got 4 bfg t/a 235/70=14 mounted on 14x7 rally 2s that I bought new in 1988. Just stopped using them 2 years ago. They look great and still have about 1/2 tread. I can't bring myself to throw them out. I bought 15" rims with bfg t/a now.
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72 lemans,455 e-head, UD 255/263 solid flat,3.73 gears,,,10" 4400 converter,, 6.68 at 101.8 mph,,1.44 60 ft.2007 (cam 271/278 roller)9"CC.4.11gear 6.41 at 106.32 mph 1.42 60 ft.(2009) SOLD,SOLD 1970 GTO 455 4 speed #matching,, 3.31 posi.Stock manifolds. # 64 heads.A factory mint tuquoise ,69' judge stripe car. 8.64 @ 87.3 mph on slippery street tires.Bad 2.25 60ft.Owned since 86' |
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If the new tires I just bought last another 30 years I’ll be 100 years old. For what it’s worth I bought my 1969 Grand Prix from a private owner 50 years ago this weekend in 1973. |
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