Re: Garage tires for a '48 22nd series

Posted by su8overdrive On 2023/10/21 19:24:41

The 1948-50 tubs, as Consumer Reports, Uncle Tom McCahill and others pointed out, were dangerously under-tired even with jumbo 8.20/15 balloons. But if you can use 7.00/15, the size on 1941-47 Century/Roadmaster, Cadillac Series 62/60S, Chrysler Saratoga/New Yorker, Hudson Commodore Eight, initial and 1942-47 127"wb Packard Clipper, the below is what Diamond Back charges a hefty price for after vulcanizing a not wide enough "wide" white.

Historically incorrect 1946-47 CCCA, AACA, PAC "100-point" cars so shod because we all know that, as with gloss instead of semi-gloss engine accessories, glitz and frail male ego trump historic accuracy.

For what combat vet fathers of the modern war novel Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut dismissed as "flag patriots," be assured Yokohama is a Canadian company, even as the identical spec Bridgestones on my '47 Super are Japanese. Michelin also made this exact sort through the early aughts.

BTW, Packard did not produce tires, batteries, generators, motor oil, grease, brake fluid, so might be good to focus on the rest of the car, not reinvent the wheel, front disc conversions, increased carburetion simply as the patience required to get these fine-threaded automobiles right is lacking in so many erstwhile buffs today.

Note some of the sizes below correct for those with earlier Packards:

RY01 Available SizesPattern No. RY01
inch Size Ply Li/Ss Tube Type Rim Width
16 6.50R16 10 109/107M T / T 4.5 ~ 5.5
6.50R16 12 111/109M T / T 4.5 ~ 5.5
7.00R16 10 113/111M T / T 5.5
7.00R16 12 116/114M T / T 5.5
7.50R16 10 119/117M T / T 5.5 ~ 6.0
7.50R16 12 121/120M T / T 5.5 ~ 6.0
15 7.00R15 10 111/109M T / T 5.5
7.00R15 12 114/112M T / T 5.5
7.50R15 12 12PR T / T 6.0

Approved rim width from JATMA yearbook 2009. T/ T =Tube Type
*The RY01 is not available in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Meanwhile, let's support Yokohama's 7.00/15 bias-sized radials, because if they bow out as did Michelin and Bridgestone, those of us with the above mentioned 1941-47 road cars are relegated to hobby bias plies people in the third world wouldn't accept. And the metric 215/225/235-15 stupid useless vehicle tires many use do not look right.