Hot Rods Tires - tall and skinny or short and fat -your thoughts?

It's easier with blackwalls. Wide whites on the other hand...
I like the big and little look but I don't care for 3" rear whitewalls and 1.5"ers up front. Delicate balance required.
Agree on the white letters unless it is a rad 60's thing with polyglass rubber. That is a cool look on the right rig.

 

I’m with the short and skinny in the front. Tall and fatter in the back crew. Snowman

 

My wife collects shoes. I collect wheels. Lol So I change them around a lot. With the 354 I do need traction. But I just like BIG and little's.

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You and me both. HRP

 

Tall and skinny. HRP

 

And another one. HRP

 

My roadster is built in my image so the tires are a little fat in the back, and short and thin out in front

 

Tall and Skinny for me

 

I agree, White walls need to be balanced. That is why I am running 6:00's up front instead of 5:50's. The smaller tires do not have the extra wide whitewalls.

 

60's look for me, never any whitewalls. It's what I grew up with.

 

I'll shake it up little skinny whites, skinny on the back with wide whites, it must be populaar I have had a lot of people pm me asking the sizes. HRP

 

Sweet! Whitewalls, white roof insert, white headliner...and what isn't white is shiny black! Perfect. Nice work on the tires too, that is what I was talking about. Those are big whites, what is the width of those whitewalls?

 

{ Raunch } I was the same way. I hated WW's back in the 60's and 70s. I now like them. But I'll just change them around for a different look.

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So many get the hole tire thing wrong. Some time rules some need,end of the 1950,tires/mostly 15in rim type had been getting wider as engines were getting more HP=V8s with overhead valves started to be really awesome at the end of 1940s and early 1950s. That bigger HP also pushed tire tread up,so tread went from around 4in. wide in mid 40s,up to around 5 n 6 in. wide by early 50s. That kept on,an 7in. an then 7.5in.* tread width by early 60s.
Hot rodders were fully keen on tire bit by width,so if we had a OHV V8,we sure as hell did not use a rear tire that was skinny ass ,around 4in. wide tread with our OHV V8 on the rear................ Now days it's kind of EZ to fine 8 and 9,even 10in.+wide,that stuff was racing only for a long time,.


The front was a def. story,with a Ford straight axle designed for a skinny tire that was lite lbs. on a rim with low scrub,was the only way the front ended worked right{still is }=so little an big was not a fade,it was engineering fact.!

If you see a hot rod today,that is styled to be 1950s up to early 1960s with overhead valve V8,an you see same size thin tread tires all the way around on all four rims=That guy lives in a bubble now days of BS,has his time frame mixed up. If he has a flathead V8 fine,thin tread width gets the pass on the rear,but by late 50s even souped flatheads were getting as much bit as they could.

Wide whites are another over used bubble of BS today on wrong time frame rods an customs. I understand just liking them,but knowing were they really fit in time is good. I see some say;thin white walls are crap;Well by early 1960s,wide white were the crap an thins were very much the thing to have on rods an customs. Now days I still like black wall,they always had there place,with me,white walls of any type cost extra,so black was not if I liked it better then,but it was what I could buy. Now I just like black better cuz its what I had then.
Yes,, I built an drove hot rods my self in the late 1950s an early 1960s,so I was there an did it this way,still do.
Happy hot rodding !

 

Thanks, the rears are 7:50'x 16 W/W is 4-1/4" The fronts are 6:00 x 16 W/W is 3-1/4" Fronts are mounted on 3-1/2 " wide v8 60 rims. Every car is different. What works on one , will not on another.

 

Tall skinnys all the way around. HRP

 

Tall and skinny,short and fat doesn’t matter as long as she’s agreeable

Somebody had to say it.

 

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Tall and skinny front & rear. HRP

 

Big fat stuff in the rear, small skinny stuff in the front, especially on cars with "steering by by armstrong".
Now running: Front 195/50R15's.......Rear 285/70R 15's.
I need to go to 4" or 4.5" (wide) wheels and tires in front but need help from some real knowledgeable wheel/tire guys. Not saying that's good for all guys but that's my way of seeing the world.
Really not a fan of tall skinny on anything.

 

My old friend Marshall likes that style. HRP

 

Tall & Skinny

 

I grew my addiction for hot rods from the mid60 dirt track cars. Fat and tall, all around, because having that short skinny right front tire with the other 3 fat and wide just doesn't work on the street. I'm running 225 75 R x 15 on my coupe, tread width measures over 8" wide on the 7" wheels. Gene

 

Back in Peoria in 1970, fat tires was where it was at. HRP

 

Another on from Peoria. HRP

 

tall and skinny.

 

HRP;
T looks a lot like Loren Richards' hand-hewn little jewel. really trick for the time.
Your friend Marshalls' rear tire looks close, but a bit short? Do you know what brand?
Anybody know of a tire that approximate the old 10x16(x31) slick w/o actually being a slick? maybe in 15" rim size? Near perfect look for the era cars I'd like to build.
Searched most tire sizes/vendors, still haven't found one. Would like the fairly sharp-edged look on tire, instead of the well-rounded look of most radials. Don't like bias-ply, hate the pie-crusts.
TIA. Marcus...

 

That's pretty much the same combo I've gone for on my 32 3w

 

Sorry, I haven't seen the car in several years, Knowing Marshall I would think they would be something like the old Road Huggers. HRP