7.25x13 bias ply tires!

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I have re-pop E70-14 Firestone Wide-Oval (red lines). Let me tell you…. They sure look cool.

But they are true wonders of crap on the road.
 
I know I know, but the reason is that the car looks like a Dart GTI or Dart Turbo edition! 14" Cragar with 65 profile don't look old. I want the car to look older and I think that bias ply tires will do it!.

I know that the road feeling will be worse but I don't drive it more the 55MPH so I think (and hope) that the bias ply tires worksfor that!!!!!
 
you will get the same "old car look" from a set of 14" steel rims with 185/75-14 white wall radials, as you would get with 13" steel rims with bias ply 13" tires, the bias ply 13" that you linked would "look" great on a concourse restoration that didnt get driven much, but they will SUCK to drive on, I would try one of these
http://www.performanceplustire.com/...imDiameter/14/productID/8676/tireDataID/13678
http://www.performanceplustire.com/...rimDiameter/14/productID/7354/tireDataID/8695
http://www.performanceplustire.com/...imDiameter/14/productID/8656/tireDataID/13394
http://www.performanceplustire.com/...imDiameter/14/productID/9854/tireDataID/21367
http://www.performanceplustire.com/...imDiameter/14/productID/9843/tireDataID/21168
 
Yes, I have a set on my wagon, made by Royal. They are not handling tires by any means but they got the "dead on" look. For what I do with my car they are just fine. It is really a matter of what you're after with your set up.
 

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Hi Dan, I like the fact that the tires don't follow cracks in the road. Bad roads here in Manitoba. Freeze, thaw cycle makes the cracks wide and the bias plys that I had on my Barracuda tended to catch the cracks when you drove parallel over them. I got radials that look similar to the bias plys and couldn't be happier.
 

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I put some 3000 to 4000km per summer (1850- 2500 miles). MOstly crusing down town or some car meetings. But where we live up in the sticks there isn't so many car shows around. And the other bigger ones are down in central Sweden. And thats some 400 miles away!

But I like the old stock look. I know that they wouldn't let me do some serious road racing or drifting. But doing 50 MPH with my stock 13" Cragar S/S wheels with the DartCharger badge in the center would be great.

I need to consider this for a while!
 
Here is a picture from an old TV show in US Gromer Pyle or something. Doesn't that cat look cool, or what?
 

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Bias Ply tires are fine on nice flat roads. The problem I have found is that if the road surface has imperfections (like grooves worn in by heavy truck traffic), the tires will find these imperfections and dart all over the place.

It can be very scary.
 
1968FormulaS340 said:
Bias Ply tires are fine on nice flat roads. The problem I have found is that if the road surface has imperfections (like grooves worn in by heavy truck traffic), the tires will find these imperfections and dart all over the place.

It can be very scary.
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I heard that too! A friend of mine has a very nice unrestored 1955 DeSoto Diplomat with a L6 and three on the tree and he drives on bias ply tires. If you cruise in ordinary traffic it's ok but you need to observe the road all the time.
 
I have Bias Ply tires so when I tell you it can be scary, I'm telling you this with first hand knowledge. Like I mentioned…… Most of the time it is ok. Where it gets really bad is on the major roads heading in or out of a metropolitan area.

Here, the roads are usually grooved from heavy traffic. More than once i have nearly pooped my pants as the car decided to go off in it's own direction.
 
1968FormulaS340 said:
I have Bias Ply tires so when I tell you it can be scary, I'm telling you this with first hand knowledge. Like I mentioned…… Most of the time it is ok. Where it gets really bad is on the major roads heading in or out of a metropolitan area.

Here, the roads are usually grooved from heavy traffic. More than once i have nearly pooped my pants as the car decided to go off in it's own direction.
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The roads up here is pretty ok! But we have same dirt roads that I don't would be a hit with bias ply! How do they work on those roads?
 
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