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Remember that these are short run reproductions of basically handmade tires and they have a shelf life based on the DOT date codes. The cost per unit is very high to produce because of the small quantities made. The manufacturers will wait until enough tires are ordered to make production...

35 years in the tire business. Retired Bridgestone/Firestone store manager. 15 k is the nation wide average and properly maintained premium tires/suspensions will go 60-70 average. Key word average. some go more, some go less. Point was tire age. very few people check their tires for wear, air...

An old tire is more important then an old belt. Compare the cost of tires as opposed to the body damage, potential death/injuries. Like Clint said " Do you feel lucky ?" Drive more if you want your money's worth. Tires are only designed to last 6 years average mileage. 15K a year average. 60-70...

Bias ply tires and radial tires have completely different construction. The tires width measurement is not on the tread but a sidewall section measurement. Radial tires by design have the tread area and the sidewall area acting independently from each other. The radial tire maintains tread...

All car manufacturers had multiple suppliers, still do. You can find out the most common but to find out what your particular car came with would require the window sticker from your car. The build sheet would only tell you the size and whether b/w, w/w, or rwl. But not the model or width of a...

The short answer is all different. widths. There was no standard. They varied between brands and models. Info would be on the window sticker ( Munroney sticker) for that exact car.

American Racing is still in business. contact them for new lugs and any info on your wheels.

225/60-15 on all 4?, 215/65-15 better choice for daily driving. Any modern tire will outperform the original tires by many times the suspensions design. 65 series tire will have one more inch of sidewall height to improve ride quality.

Sure helps to know what they are going on. What the wheel sizes and tire sizes will be. How fast and what surface they will be driven on....

A picture of the complete tire helps as well. Most likely 1977. Almost 45 years old. They were too old 30 years ago to be safely used for driving. At that age and condition they should not even be remounted as it would no longer be safe to air the tire up to reseat the beads. They would...

Great time to call that Chevy guy...

They were designed for commercial trucks that needed to be able to have a tire replaced anywhere. Side of the road with just a few tools. Catastrophic explosions were mostly caused by the rings being damaged by inexperienced tire changers and that would prevent them from properly engaging the...

The stud and lug nuts job is to clamp the wheel to the hub. Back before OSHA in the early seventies we used Hunter on the car balancers before the computers came along. Very dangerous on used tires. You could have rocks, etc. come off at high speeds and shoot across the shop and unless you were...

It depends on what you mean by "fit". Yes it will mount up and hold air, but the designed rim width for a 235 MM section width tire is 7" and rims wider than 7" tend to be reverse offset ( Negative ) tire is pushed out of fender , more prone to rubbing.

Don't get too mad, but this is a perfect example of blaming the parts when someone didn't bother to do their homework first. Remember the saying about measure twice, cut once. This is what they meant. Service Manuals were available long before Youtube and the internet. Have a paint question, ask...

Don't get too mad, but this is a perfect example of blaming the parts when someone didn't bother to do their homework first. Remember the saying about measure twice, cut once. This is what they meant. Service Manuals were available long before Youtube and the internet. Have a paint question...

Good tire, Cooper also makes the same tire under the "Mickey Thompson" brand with Mickey Thompson lettering. Look better and are more period correct. Mickey Thompson started making performance tires in the 60's and were on a lot of cars before the T/A tire was invented...

DOT date codes were not phased in until 1971. Prior to that Goodyear used an internal code system. In 1970-71 it had 8 digits. Like yours. The 8 digit system from January 1970 until the mid 71 year. After that it went to 11 digits and will have 3 numbers at the end of the DOT code. Week and...

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I said "more" period correct. Everybody puts BFG T/A radials on everything thinking they were available back then. Weren't available in many sizes until the mid seventies. Mickey Thompsons came out in the mid sixties. First ones were not DOT approved (actual racing tires) but many used them...