Re: Best Modern Radial Tire Size for a 1941 Clipper

Posted by su8overdrive On 2012/5/20 21:34:38

Monsignor Graber -- Bridgestone R230 LT radials come in our correct 7.00 x 15 bias ply size.

With these and Yokohama 7.00 x 15 radials still available, it astonishes me why some folks persist in using 235/75R15s intended for 5,500-lb. Stupid Useless Vehicles. Metric-sized radials look hideous on a vintage or Classic car.

BTW, for our '30s Senior-driving friends, Bridgestone, and i believe, Yokohama, also offer a 7.50 x 16 radial.

Unless they somehow "need" whitewalls. I'm for leaving whitewalls to the GMobile concours d'nonelegance crowd. Blackwalled Packards were esteemed in England and at embassies around the globe.

I often think many Packard owners who still don't get it would be better served by the 1941 Cadillac Club of America, formerly known as the CCCA; or the AACA, that considers anything out of the Kelley Blue Book "antique," or one of the other organizations hijacked by the downhome brigade. I just flipped through the current Classic Car, quarterly of the CCCA. Page after page of overrestored monstrosities with whitewalls, and, of course, fog or driving lights you never saw in the day. Aaaand requisite gargoyle hood ornament, despite photographs of late '30s Packard Twelve and Super Eight convertibles in big city showrooms shod with black shoes and adorned simply with the standard baled feather hood ornament so you'd see the car.

The only thing worse than Packard's inept marketing of their world-class junior cars 1938-on, contrasted with Rolls-Royce/Bentley's skillful purvey of their increasingly rationalized "small horsepower models," is our perpetuating Packard's clumsiness. But this brings us back to my closing May 09th comments on the General Forum "This ad would've made all the difference."