[njsteve]

Yup, the old survivor curse strikes again!

[njsteve]

I was getting the old girl ready for a photo shoot today and took it for a half mile drive when suddenly the car starts wobbling. Yup you guessed it. Another one of the NOS 1973 Firestone 500 tires exploded. This was one I got off craigslist a few years ago. I had an NOS spare tire and rim from a 1974 T/A in the garage so I bolted that on the car and we were good to go. Those Firestone 500s are real widow-makers. I was only going 15 MPH at the time. I can't imagine what people went through with these things when they were new, back in the 1970's and Firestone denied that there was any problem whatsoever.

Here's what it looked like while still inflated. It continued snapping the steel cords and shredding as I was taking the photo.

[njsteve]

And after I deflated it. BTW, those are steel cords sticking out of there, not polyester.

[njsteve]

The photographer got some good shots on a nice day.

[eaglesan13]

Steve,

What size tires are on the car in this picture?

[njsteve]

Those are my extra set of street tires: 255/60x15 BFG Radial T/As. If I won the lottery I'd buy a set of those new radial Firestone Wide Ovals.

[eaglesan13]

Thanks, I'm going to do the same thing with my 71 trans am. I'm almost done restoring the KR's and have a new set of Goodyear Polyglass tires to go on them, but I want to put some new t/a's on the honeycombs.

Originally Posted by njsteve

Those are my extra set of street tires: 255/60x15.