Day 2 tires--- what are you looking for?

[whitetop]

Chandler, back in the day we did not have all the tire choices we have today. If you want a specific tire imprint on your car you might not get it with vintage bias tires and might have to use a modern radial tire.

Basically all you had back in the day if you wanted a larger size tire in terms of width was F60, G60 and L60's-there was nothing made in between those two sizes unless you went to the 50 series but then you loose height. Our tire choices back then then kinda reminds me of the old Wendy's commercial on Russian "evening wear and swim wear"..the older guys will remember that commercial.

Just as in limited tire back then, wheels were also very limited. you had two offsets back in the day, stock and deep dish(reversed) in custom wheels and this is if you were lucky. Many aluminum wheels such as slots just came in one offset. An American or Ansen 15 x 8.5 slot for instance just came in one offset back then-deep dish. That is why shackles and air shocks came about. Today you can get any offset you want from each wheel available..some wheels have 5-8 different offsets available.

Sammy is right, the 6 & 7" rims were common in the late 60's and early 70's due to the fact street tire choices in larger widths were extremely limited. Guys who wanted something wider went with mostly slicks or cheater slicks or super wide Indy car race tires. The L60 series tires were not released until 1971.

Pos-A- Traction also had some wider street tires in the late 60's in a larger width based upon the tall L70-14/15 tire core. I think the tread width was around 8"