Tiger Paw Tire

[Mr70]

For the 1970 Chevelles,they used F70X14:
*Firestone Wide Oval
*Goodyear polyglas
*Uniroyal Tiger Paw
*General 700
There is a member here who still has his original General tires..

[William]

"If you have a build sheet or other factory doc that specifically calls out belted RWL (in one form or another) for a 69 Chevelle, Nova or Camaro, please prove me wrong."

I have a ws copy for COPO N693864 showing:
5PL4AD F70X14 FG BELTED WH LET TIRES

[Mr. T]

Now another Yenko.net member is the high bidder at $326.80 for the Tiger Paw. The next 3 days might be real interesting.

[Jeff Murphy]

[ QUOTE ]
"If you have a build sheet or other factory doc that specifically calls out belted RWL (in one form or another) for a 69 Chevelle, Nova or Camaro, please prove me wrong."

I have a ws copy for COPO N693864 showing:
5PL4AD F70X14 FG BELTED WH LET TIRES

[/ QUOTE ]

I have the same for COPO N661189:

5PL4JD F70X14 FG BELTED WH LET TIRES

So what would the right FG Beleted RWL tire application be for a the above two cars? Polyglas? My original owner says his car came with Firestones - would they be Wide Oval RWL?

Bill, how's about selling me that Dale emblem you don't need

[mrrec]

This site never ceases to amaze me. Already we seem to have two COPO Camaros built with RWL belted tires. I asked to be proven wrong, and was obliged! I haven't looked up the build dates of these two cars, but I'm guessing they are late model year builds - that would make sense.

I would think the proper tire for these SPECIFIC cars would be Polyglas, Firestone, Uniroyal and perhaps the General. The Polyglas is the only correct repro. The 1969 Firestone Wide Oval had the "Wide Oval" letters much smaller than the 1970 and up version being reproduced.

So the trend here is 1969 RWL belted tires only on the COPO cars. Someone prove a non COPO Camaro, Chevelle or Nova with RWL belteds and we'll blow this theory, too.

Mr. Moderator, can we move this thread to the Tech heading??

Dave

[Jeff Murphy]

My car is 3rd week June. Were the small letter '69 Wide Ovals also belted?

[Mr70]

I don't have a tire here in front of me to look at,but for the 1969 available F70X14 tires,only the RPO-PY4 White Stripe & PY5 Red Stripe were Belted Tires.
The RPO-PL5 White lettered,PW7 White Stripe & PW8 Red Stripe were NOT Belted Tires.

[Kurt S]

Dave,
Happy to help with that theory.
I know of 6 69 Camaros that came with PL4. 3 of those are COPO's and 3 are L65's (350 2bbl).
All May and later....

[LVCamaro]

Kurt,
Are you including my '69 RS COPO Camaro in your "3 COPO" count?

SS

[mrrec]

Steve:

You have docs showing PL4 RWL belted on your RS COPO? Tiger Paws? Build date, please.

Dave