Re: Goodyear tires
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JoeC: I remember reading something about Chevy Engineering being slow to approve the polyglas tires for high speed applications. Chevy stuck with the old design nylon cord Wide Thread GT and Speedway tires on the hi performance cars and Corvette until the Polyglas tires had been real-world tested by the other manufactures. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Joe is absolutely correct on this aspect. In fact, Corvettes never used fiberglass belted tires for this very reason. Duntov was quoted as saying that the Corvette required a tire capable of 140 mph speeds and the nylon belted tires were the only ones that met his criteria. Nylon belted tires were used in Corvette applications until they were replaced by radial tires for the 1973 model year.
Regards,
Stan Falenski
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