[rt400]

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

[DANTIP]

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!!

[Pershing]

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.

[rt400]

Thanks for the advice.

[north]

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.

[68gtoMN]

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.

[north]

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

[Pershing]

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.

[turbo69bird]

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?

[north]

I thought we were talking about GTO’s.

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