Original owner says car came with polyglass tires.

[Mr70]

Les
Send me your tire codes.I can decipher.
Rick

[Les Quam]

Dave and I are trying to figure out the great tire mystery that goes along with this car as we speak. All the owners say the originals stayed with the car. When Jim Hughes got the car he removed the original wheels and tires which are old polyglass sized Goodyears thinking they were old tires but not original to the car and set them aside and installed repop wheels and tires so he could drive and enjoy the car. Jim never spoke to the original owner to learn the no size factory original Firestones were swapped at the dealer with sized goodyear polyglass tires and were original to the car when it left the dealership. I learned this morning that when Dave bought the car the car had the repop wheels and tires on it with the originals put into the trailer to go to Charley's then to Dave's. Dave upon receiving the car removed the repop tires that Jim put on and put on new correct original repop no size tires. I have emails into Dave and Charley asking if Dave ever got the original wheels and tires because they both may not have been told by Jim or the truck driver that the extras were the originals? Anyway Dave has a set of old originals in his warehouse but believes them to be built long after 1969. Dave knows his stuff so he is surely correct the question is whether Dave knows the wheels and tires in the trailer were the ones on the car when Jim Hughes bought it from Jerry B? So if we can locate the tires put into the trailer up at Jim's and sent to Charley's we can get some numbers to see if they possibly could have been the originals installed back at the dealership in June 1969.

[Les Quam]

Correction, the tires that the original owner left the dealership on in June of 1969 say "Goodyear wide tread GT" and have NO size on them so they would be correct for the car in 1969 at least according to the Mustang guys.

[Charley Lillard]

Dave has found the wheels-tires.

[Les Quam]

[Donnie]

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Dave has found the wheels-tires.

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So, are they going to be reunited with the car?

[Charley Lillard]

yes

[csx289]

More breaking news- Les has determined that he did indeed eat corn a few days ago and this explains the presence of corn kernels during todays stool checking procedure. Date codes of said kernels will be forthcoming to confirm if they are NOS or in fact assembly line correct original corn kernels. This coupled with the carbon dating and forensics report from the lab will prove within 99.998% the exact origin of said corn. While not fully conclusive, Les has resolved to live with the uncertanty of this forthcoming vauge 99.998% affirmation that he indeed was the person who consumed the corn at the Las Vegas county fair last Friday night that is supposedly the same corn that recently passed through his system.

The original owner of the corn, farmer Robert O. MacDonald, could not be reached for comment or to provide period photographs of this years bumper crop of delicious corn.

[tom406]

I appraised the car when Jim had it and it did come from Jerry B with what were said to be the original tires, and those tires are some vintage Goodyear Wide Tread GT, size F 70-15. Even if the date codes come up right, I would wonder if they weren't dealer swapped from a Yenko Chevelle or something. Check the dates on the wheels, compare them to the car and the tires. We've all come across wheel swaps done at the dealer for buyer's request or to replace stolen ones.

There wouldn't be any reason for a Camaro plant to have that size tire in stock (Although I guess you could argue the same about the L-72 engines and BE rears..)

Its a bit troubling to hear about the misplaced tires (glad they're found). PLEASE tell me it still has all of that cool documentation Jerry dug up and Jim preserved.

(Hopefully Dave C. is using this treasure hunting opportunity to fill the trunks of the auction cars with all of the "stuff" he has for them.)

Good luck on your fact-finding mission, Les.

TOM

[Stuart Adams]

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Dave has found the wheels-tires.

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That is very cool.