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Tires - Bill Peck - 03-11-2017 Still working on getting ready to run the geezer class at Sandy Hook in May. I'm wondering about tires. I have 2 sets of Goodyear Blue Streaks that appear to be serviceable (in fact 3 of them are unused), but I'm thinking that they may be worth more to someone who's doing a restoration than for me to go out and burn them up. I would be happy to part with them to a good home (for a fair price, of course), but that would leave me needing new tires. I found the Vintage Speed website. Is there another source that I'm missing? RE: Tires - ted johnson - 03-11-2017 Gus Gustaffson's Vintage Speed tires are quite good, and Gus is a good guy worth supporting. The Cheng Shin tires sold by many shops are very good as well. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice! Ted RE: Tires - Al Hasenfratz - 03-11-2017 Agree with Ted, have Vintage Speed on G/P, good tires . Al RE: Tires - steveohara - 03-14-2017 what sizes? RE: Tires - David Luciani - 03-14-2017 sell the goodyears they are worth a good bit to a restorer or guy who prefers running them. you can buy brand new gus tires and still have enough money for a good dinner with the change!! chern shins or gus tires both very good. chens used to be cheap now not so much. gus tires should get our support imho. RE: Tires - Bill Peck - 03-18-2017 (03-14-2017, 08:42 AM)David Luciani Wrote: sell the goodyears they are worth a good bit to a restorer or guy who prefers running them. Sorry. The sizes are: N.O.S. - one 11 x 6.00 - 5 & two 11 x 4.50 - 5. Used - three 11 x 6.00 - 5 & two 11 x 4.50 - 5. One of the 6.00's has a whimpy bead that won't hold air without a tube. That's why I had to use one of the new ones (running tubeless) for one race. The rest of the used ones have four race meets on them (as I recall, but that was a long time ago and my memory isn't what it used to be). The rubber depth on the new ones is 5/32". The used 6.00 with one race also has 5/32, in fact you can still see the mold line (which makes sense since the one race was was a sportsman sit-up on the Louden road course where there's not a lot of high G corners). The other two 6.00's have 4/32. The used 4.50's have 4/32 to 5/32. So now I just have to figure out what a fair price is so I can list them for sale. |