----------------- It depends on the era. Early and mid-'60's, 10.00X15's or 10.00X16's pretty much what was being run - especially in the higher and/or supercharged gas classes. The 'lower letter' and non-supercharged gas-class cars usually a bit smaller tire - usually 8.00 or 9.00X15's. In both cases, the tire brands of choice were usually M&H's, Goodyears, and maybe to bit lesser extent. Firestones or sometimes Caslers even. By the late '60's though, tires were getting better and also bigger - with the the lower gas-class cars mostly moving up to at least 10-inch wide tires and the higher-letter cars going to 11 and 12-inch wide tires. Mart3406 ============
Most of the supercharged gassers ran piecrust slicks until late 65, when Goodyear introduced their wrinkle wall design. Many of A/GS guys switched to the new 10.50-16 Goodyears at that point. However, I have seen pictures of cars running as large as 11.00-16 piecrust slicks during that time. By 66, both Goodyear and M&H were promoting wrinkle wall designs, and the piecrust slicks were rapidly disappearing from the top level gas classes. By the end of 66, most of top guys were running 11.50-16 slicks. By late 67, 12.00-16's were popping up, and by late 68, M&H had introduced the 13.00-16. This information comes from vintage photos and ads published in various car magazines and papers like Drag News. Hope this helps. Mark
In Don Montgomery's Supercharged Gassers book, he says that most of the blown gassers were running the same tire as top fuelers were. Kind of makes sense that they would run the biggest tire available, since traction was still marginal for the cars at the time. Larry T
11.00 x 16 Goodyears or 10.00 x 15 Firestones and 10.65 x 15 M&H is what I recall seeing a lot of when I was a kid attending Gas Coupe and Sedan Nationals with my older brother.
here is reciept for my cragers in 69 as you can see i increased the rim width from 8 t0 10 as the tires available changed
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