I'm not a big fan of wide whites. I like skinnys or medium whites like the one you ground on. either way would look good,
The front one isn't fucked up, it's the sun reflecting. I'm happy with the way they turned out. We'll see how they hold up. The rear tires are 215/75, and the fronts are 205/70. I like the raked look. Still gotta replace the spider caps. Thank you to everybody who voted and who offered up their . Squablow, Thanks again for the tip about smoothing out the sidewall, it was a nice finishing touch.
So Malarky. We're those skinny whites that you ground down into what we see here? I have a set of skinny whites. The thin white is raised a little bit. How do I ground those down to look like yours. They look perfect.
Yes they were skinny, and thanks. Watch the video in this thread. I pretty much followed that procedure except I stepped down in grit many times from a 60 grit grinding/finishing disc to medium then fine scotch-brite pads with a backer pad on a 4 1/2" angle grinder. Experiment on some junk tires first.
Looks great, but I don't think you can lose either way. I put the wide whites on my 65 over 6 years ago, and people thought it wouldn't look right. I tend to disagree.
I won't tell you that my family has been with Goodyear and Firestone since 1920. When a tire company engineers a tire to be a wide whitewall, the whitewall is already molded in the casting as the size it will be, so that the integrity of the sidewall is not reduced to achieve a wider whitewall than was designed. Do some research before you start modifying tires that hold up the weight of your car as they were designed.
Thanks guys for the positive comments. 1badnov- That wagon looks just right. Great lines on that thing.
That sounds about right, but FWIW.... I used to have a set of ground ww's on a lowrider that I had. Those tires saw all kinds of abuse from 3-wheel motion to hopping! I never had a problem with those tires. I ended up damaging one of my supremes and getting a rim leak before the tires went.
I like it. Any wider of a whitewall might have looked odd, but what you have there looks period perfect, and it doesn't look like an off-the-shelf new tire either. That's usually the kind of look you have to pay $150 a tire for.
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