Red line tires
 

I'm considering buying a set of G70 x 14 red lines from Coker. Looking at the radials with bias ply look. Does anyone have any experience with these? Pros? cons? What do you clean red lines with?
Thanks

Red line
 

I own two sets of the Wide-Oval FR70-14 red line radials and love them. I clean them with Wesley's. They seem to drive and handle much better than the bias ply tires. Enjoy!!

I have the Coker Firestone Wide Oval red line radials. Much better than the Coker Firestone Wide Oval white line bias-ply tires they replaced. I bought the car with the bias-ply white lines and I understand why the owner put them on the car. He was interested in concours shows and the car was shown a lot and the car's order form had on it that the original tires were the white lines. However, I will drive it more than show and the tires were 10+ years old so since Coker did not make a white line radial I got the red lines, which look great on a black car. Radials in general drive, handle, ride better than bias-ply. Maybe safer too, but I don't know. i just use the car wash soap. Meguiars, or Simple Green if I see that they are dirty.

Red line tires
 

Thanks for the advice.

I run the bias belted firestones and Goodyear’s on a few of my GTO’s and birds. Definitely inferior drive characteristics compared to radials but given the very low use they get I wanted to get the most authentic look and feel of 69.

One thing I noticed about bias tires, they are like a fire alarm for any wear in the front end, any looseness in a ball joint or tie rod becomes instantly noticeable. The same flaw is hidden by the forgiving nature of radials until much later in the deterioration process.

What was your car originally spec'd with? G70 x 14 or G77 x 14? F70x14 are potentially too short. Mine was G77 x 14 redlines from factory. They offer GR70x14 which are only 1.9% smaller. F70 would be too short.

F70’s look funny on GTO’s, the overall diameter just looks too small, gives that compact spare look.

My car had F70x14 Firestone Wide Oval White Line Originally. These look fine to my eye. They look like the car should look.

I am looking at the owners manual right now. Optional sizes were:
7.75x14 white side wall,
7.75x14 8 ply rating. These must have been Black walls as they don’t say red or white.
7.75x14 red line.
F70x14 Firestone Wide Oval Red Lines were standard.

I hope this helps.

What was standard tire on a 69 Firebird and if you ordered a RAIV or a spring handling package did that change tire type without it showing up as as added charge or order on the PHS?

I thought we were talking about GTO’s.

F70 is the correct size for Firebird which had much smaller wheel opening.