Re: My 1969 GTO Tire Blowout
Posted by Leeedy On 2020/6/8 9:14:29
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Tom (Packin31) wrote:
Leeedy,
For the directional of the tires rotation by LH/RH of installation I am not sure. Will need to take a look at the tires and see.
For putting the raised white to the inside does that make a difference on how the tires will run?
When I do go purchase new tires (which will be all four including the spare) I am not going to buy the LH/RH type tires. I am one that rotates tires at every oil change or before the driving season for my cars that are stored over the winter months.
You had yourself a nice 68 there. Cool option with he dual side dumps. I like it.
What color was your 68? From the Picture it looks to be yellow?
If you like I could post over on the GTO forum to see if any forum members knows the whereabouts of it?
Thanks to all of you for your concerns and feedback. I really do appreciate it.
Be safe all....
It is not a matter of the sidewall being in or out, but rather the tread design. But it IS important to remember that the tire manufacturer presumes that RWL sidewalls will be mounted on wheels as intended. So flipping those tires backwards (I guess the latest trendy thing is the Euro-look blackwall) just tosses a wrench into the works.
When I was Project Manager at Mazda in the 1980s, we introduced a uni-directional tread radial on RX-7. AND uni-directional alloy wheels. There were all kinds of things that happened as a result. Almost nobody paid attention to the details and facts-or read the owner's manual.
Very first thing: a photographer decided he liked the way a RH wheel and tire looked, so? He had one mounted on the LH front. Then took a photo and put it on the cover of a magazine! People tried to imitate the magazine cover or wondered why theirs didn't "look that way." Rotater folks tried rotating RH tires and wheels onto LH mountings and vice-versa. Things got crazy. One magazine guy complained that a car "handled funny"... only for me to discover the tires were mounted on backwards! This is what happens when new technologies are introduced and people try using old methods and business as usual. Tires stopped being just tires a long time ago.
Thanks for the compliments. My GTO was indeed yellow... the name of the color was "Mayfair Maize". Interior and top were black and pinstripes (real painted ones) were red. Wheelhouse liners were red too.
The "Exhaust Splitters" (while normally an extra-cost Pontiac accessory) were not an option on GTOs for the first time in 1968. This was because the factory exhaust had radically changed for 1968. So the only option that year was for a chrome "trumpet" tip that looked too much to me like Mustang GT. So? I had Milt Schornack and the guys at Royal Pontiac make a set of special exhaust splitters just for me. As far as I know, I had the only 1968 GTO with exhaust splitters.
The mirrors you see here were prototypes not available. Got them from a friend who worked in design at Ford when they were being tossed out. I had them specially painted by the dealer to match my GTO.
I also had my GTO Bobcatted at Royal, but I never installed the special "Royal Bobcat" stickers and window decal (all of which I still have along with my Royal license plate frames and paperwork. I even have my "Protect-O-Plate).
I don't know anything about the GTO forum you mention, but I would love to find my GTO and have it back again. I very reluctantly sold it while in college. The gas and insurance were astronomical at the time.
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