Re: Radial tyre size

Posted by Dave Kenney On 2008/5/5 8:12:01

You could turn the tires inside out and just show them as blackwalls which would appear more period correct that the thin whitewall. My opinion is that white wall tires on prewar and early postwar Packards is overdone on modern restored cars and in the case of the 1946-47 Clippers also incorrect. I have had both whitewalls and blackwall tires on my '47 Super Clipper and in my opinion the car looks far more elegant and stately without whitewalls. Packard body styling in most years was so beautiful that I find whitewall tires a distraction from appreciating the lines of the car body but most owners seem to think the opposite. Packards do not need that embellishment to look good and indeed most Packard owners who could afford these fine cars when new probably considered the addition of whitewall tires as rather bourgeois.