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Driving a muscle car with radials is like ------- with a condom on. You just don't get the full experience! Lewd analogies aside, I drove/raced my 70 LS5 Chevelle for 13,000 with Wide Ovals, my Yenko Deuce for about 2000-3000 miles also with Wide Ovals, and my 70 396 Chevelle for also about 3,000-4000 miles with Goodyear bias plys. NEVER had a problem. The car was engineered to have bias ply tires so that is the way it should be driven. People who say otherwise must not be truly
driving the car the way it should be. If you want a nice smooth ride, then drive a Lexus.
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If that's truly the case doesn't that throw the whole "day 2" (tires, carbs, traction bars, valve covers with breathers and etc) concept out the window? Those mods and more deviated from how the car was originally engineered.
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Maybe Darren. Maybe the way I said it as, being engineered that way, was not exactly the way I was thinking about it. For me personally when I drove my muscle cars I wanted the "full experience." I had most of my cars day 2'ed and would NEVER use any sort of modern style equipment. The rims, tires, valve covers, breathers, basically everything you mentioned, I had day 2 parts from that exact era. When I say "that is the way the car was engineered," I mean that the car was engineered with those tires in mind and approved by the federal government for road use. If they are "not safe" or "squirrely" then maybe they would not be approved for use now of days. Hell, dinosaurs like the Mayor of Donahue and Cumby drove them like that when they were new, in the snow, etc., and had minimal problems I would imagine, as their cars are still with them. Millions of people drove cars with bias ply tires on them back in the day and many of those people are still here to tell us about it.