Re: Tire Shopping for a '54 Clipper

Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2015/1/10 0:30:41

That's a lot of miles! I notice you did go with the 225 rather than 235, as I was speculating about. I believe your '50 has the same 5 1/2" rims as my '54. The tires look nice. I wonder what the explanation would be regarding the harder turning at a stop with the first tires as opposed to the Coopers.

If Diamond Back gets tires from Cooper, maybe I can talk them into a one-off set of "Untouchables" for mine. I find it hard to part with that name on the sidewall. It is probably my favorite tire nickname except maybe for "Firehawk", a set of which I had on my '95 T-Bird. Thunderbird/Firehawk/Firestone> too cool. Raised white letters 'n' everything. Back when boy-racer stuff was more my thing.

Thanks for posting. I like this thread partly because it serves the same purpose for me as a winter seed catalog--shopping for car stuff while looking forward to the weather geting nice again.