vintage tires that need to be reproduced

when im looking at mags or pis from the 50/60s i like to look at the tires people used to run... tread styles,, side walls,, whitewalls,, blackwalls,, doublewhites,, triplewhites.,,, checkerbords.... i wish we had that kind of variety today.....
so what tires need to be reproduced???? whats on your list???? add a pic if you can....
GoodYear Double Eagles gets my #1 vote....

 

goodyear blue streak dragway specials! also the 4.50-15 blue streak sports car specials for frontrunners

 

I vote for the blue streaks too.

 

Goodyear Illuminated Tires

 

Cool! I'd like a set of 13x33's for the dragster!! Fronts too of course!

 

blue streaks would be cool.....

 

I was working out a deal on a set of those 1st pictured but lost the info and been going nuts to find the guys number again...I love them

 

hell I wish BFG would just make the T/A radials in RWL in 295/60=15 and 195/70-15.tried to buy them for my 56 and was told it was a national back order and no idea when to expect them maybe mid 2010......and they say sales are dowm WTF ya gotta make em to sell em!!!!!!!!!!

 

I never owned a set, and they may have been crap, I don't know...but I always loved the look of MT Indy Profile S/S.

 

Someone NEEDS to redo the Firestone double diamond dirt track tires. The ones that coker does are too narrow for a lot of 60's builds.

Frank

 

I was given a set of those mounted on rims. No cracks, and good tread. A little bit stiff, but ill smoke em off.

 

i think these are good years.... check out the edge of the tires....
i got these of ebayyears ago....

 

How about some Dominion Royal Masters wide whites

 

Man, those illuminated tires are crazy? Anyone have any idea how in the hell those things worked?

 

Atlas Bucrons from the 50's & 60's and POS-A-TRACTION 70,60,& 50 series from the late 70's and 80's.

 

Atlas Bucrons x2...

 

Diamond treads in 17 inches ..................... And still looking for some nos

 

this guy does have quite a few vintage good years, not sure if the exact ones are there, but I know I've seen blue streaks for sale for cobra and lola kit cars..

http://www.rogerkrausracing.net

 

hell yes...9.50x16's

 

I'm getting soft in my old age. I want some 16" radials that look just like Firestone bias plys, pie crust and all, and ones that'll balance with less than an ounce per corner.

 

Hell yes Larry. Just what I'm talking about. HELLO COKER!!!!!!

Frank

 

I second the Inglewood Pos-A-Traction in an L-70 would be great.

 

U.S. Royal Masters... Hands down.
I'm surprised that Coker still hasn't done these yet...

 

US Royal Masters! with the radial ribbed side walls inside and outside of the white wall. These were THE tire for show car customs of the very late '50s and early '60s. They were the first "narrow" whitewalls appearing as OEM on the '57 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham. US Royal had about six sizes of them that I know of. Many famous show cars had them and the restorations and clones of those cars don't look right without them. El Matador '40 Ford radical custom comes to mind.

 

U S ROYAL MASTERS

The ribbed narrow white wall version like on most of the top end Customs around 1960±

Check pics of the Jade Idol or the Matador for them.

Only legal reason I can think of for not making them is that U S ROYAL was 'merged" with another company and is now UNIROYAL

 

Here in SoCal the Citadel along the 5 fwy was the old US Royal tire factory. I rememeber when they finally shut it down. It was the last factory making bias tires and when the demand ceased as radials became more popular they closed rather than retool.

If anyone cares the HON furniture factory in South Gate was the old Firestone tire plant. They used to blow the lunch whistle everyday at 12:00 and I could hear it at my house.

Pos-A-Traction was still in business the last time I went by. But I think all they do now is distribute imported cheap tires.

 

WOW.... thanks..... i was looking for a good pic of those to post.....
btw,,, doesnt the El Matador have radials on it now...

 

btw,,,, have i mentioned GOODYEAR DOUBLE EAGLE !!!

i wonder who owns the molds to some of these different tires....
like if goodyear still owns the molds for the "double egale" and if some one had a large chunk of cash,, if they would make a run of them...

 

any others

 

Atlas Bucrons... the best racing tire ever made for the street...