Re: No One-Sixty Was Harmed - Streetrod

Posted by Don Shields On 2015/5/17 22:21:35

I'm most intrigued by the statement that the spare tires are vulnerable to damage when stored in the sidemount wells. I owned a '41 160 sedan and I never had any sidemount tire damage. I think what really happened is this car is fitted with 15 inch P-metric radials which are a much fatter doughnut than the original 16 inch bias plies were. They probably had problems squeezing those tires into the wells, necessitating the trunk-mounted spare. They also left the sidemount cover trim band off for some unexplained reason.