Original Goodyear Poly glas tires

[camarojoe]

That statement doesn't tell me they using Goodyear Polyglas tires. No mention of brand, model of tire, etc... nor does it say what they were belted with. Show me an original 1969 photo of a 69 Camaro with Polyglas tires...

The 69 Indy 500 was in May, LATE May... yet from every photo I have ever seen, all cars at the track with goodyears on them, including the actual pace cars wore Wide Treads, NOT polyglas. You would think if they were actually installing these tires in April, the Indianapolis pace car would have them.

[TimG]

The build sheets do not always indicate the actual tire that came on a car. I have a build sheet for a '67 Corvette with redline tires on it, the car did not arrive with these tires on it as per the window sticker. The final list of actual options is reflected on the window sticker.
My '69 Pace Car that I bought from the original owner came with Wide Tread tires. The dealer/owner tried to get the factory to put Polyglas tires on the car and they would not as per my conversation with him. When I bought the car from him in 1981 I asked why the spare and the tires on the car were different and he told me that he took the crapy original tires off the car immediately and put on the good Polyglas tires. The actual tires on '69 Pace Cars have "Speedway Special" or something like this on the back side.

[Supercar_Kid]

I have several vintage photos that were taken on race weekend at Indy in '69. Not a Polyglas tire on a Pace Car in sight...but a few are definitely identifiable as having wore small lettered Firestone Wide Ovals. (Not to be confused with the large lettered "Wide O Oval" lettering introduced for '70) Perhaps that's what the shipper sheet is referencing on that ZL-1 and COPO. Could have also been Firestone Sport Car 200s...does anyone know if they were they fiberglas belted?

[William]

By virtue of the paperwork trail so near and dear to all of us there is no question fiberglass belted F70 x 14 RWL tires were a late option on 1969 Camaros.

The PR mess I mentioned involved Uniroyal. Firestone and Goodyear were also suppliers to Chevrolet and certainly could have supplied these tires. Goodyear Polyglas tires were available in '69; they were std on the '69 Hurst Olds.

We may never know for certain. The original owner of ZL1 #68 must still be around. Ask him what was on the car.

[camarojoe]

I'm not arguing that belted tires were available in 69, nor am I arguing if Polyglas tires were produced in 69, as its quite known they were used by Mopar and even other GM divisions... My argument is that you will not find any Chevrolet cars using Goodyear Polyglas tires until 1970.

[Supercar_Kid]

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By virtue of the paperwork trail so near and dear to all of us there is no question fiberglass belted F70 x 14 RWL tires were a late option on 1969 Camaros.

[/ QUOTE ] Were the 1969 Uniroyal Tiger Paws or Firestone Sport Car 200s fiberglas belted or only nylon? I see the shipper references "FG Belted" tires but what says that means they had to be of the Goodyear "Polyglas" variety? This is an interesting debate for sure.

[William]

As 1969 Camaros were built into the '70 model year I believe it is possible some had Goodyear Polyglas tires just as other '70 models did.

The Sport Car 200 was an odd tire, sold only through Firestones' Racing Division as a friend learned when he cut one on his new Z/28. Both it and the Uniroyal Tiger Paw were cheap bias-ply tires that were gone in 20,000 miles.

"FG belted" does not mean Goodyear. We do not seem to know what it means.

[Belair62]

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[/ QUOTE ] What does this mean ???

[Mr70]

It looks like:
5=total tires
PL4=F70X14 Bias Belted Ply white lettered(This is an RPO code shown not in the 1969 Chevrolet dealer Ordering Catalog,but rather in the 1970)
JD=?
FG=FiberGlass belted Tire

[70-SS/RS-L78]

These were used on 70 Camaro SS.
I am interested...