Granted, I was just a boy when these cars were new, but I never saw a '66 or '67 "back in the day" that still had its redlines on it. They wore out so fast & or were replaced by bigger tires so soon that they were a very rare sight on the road. When I got my first '66 in 1971, I went for the shined up blackwall look. Anyone remember that blacktop stuff from turtlewax that was like black shoe polish for the tires? I was mad when they stopped making that stuff! I eventually succumbed to the raised white letter craze & now have them on both of my '66 GTOs. It's a shame because I have only a few hundred miles on a set of vintage BFG RWL tires on my show car, but I'm going to have to get "correct" & go with a set of repro redlines before I take the car to a national meet.
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By diligent effort I seem to be prolonging my adolescence to total absurdity. John D. MacDonald
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