Re: Radials, Belted and judging....

Posted by PackardV8 On 2011/6/11 9:22:11

From post #1 above:
"My recollection, which has a visible amount of haze, is that radials were available in the late fifties as replacements".

Maybe. Just like Internet was available in the early 1970's too but very few people knew about it let alone had much resource or access.

POPULAR WIDE SPREAD availability/promotion of radials didn;t start until about 1967. Then only on the high end cars or as OPTIONAL on some cars. I bought bias ply tires that were still widely available well into the early 1980's.

THAT IS TO SAY that BOTH bias belted AND radials were equaly available in the 1967 to 1980 time frame.