Re: [FWDLK] time to re tire

Chuck- (and everyone else...) Anybody that does retreaded tires or recaps should have the machine to shave whitewalls. It holds and spins the tire like a mounting machine and it has an arm that comes down to shave the sidewall. When I did wholesale tires we struck up a deal and made 195/60R15 wide whites that we would sell to the Dayton wire wheel crowd in L.A. like hotcakes. Possible white wall width varies by brand and sidewall, (i.e. 60, 65, or 70 series) we found that Cooper Cobras could go pretty big, almost 2 inches on a 60 series. Might be another avenue to explore for you guys looking for radial whites.

Brian Shaputis

Rochester, WA

'60 Desoto Fire Flite

----- Original Message ----
From: Charles Deyoe Jr. <deyoe101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 9, 2008 7:30:14 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] time to re tire

I have to agree my tires are coker classics that I brought new in 1995
and they look great still never had any problems with them. I am
going to check them out.

I have been getting quotes on new tires I want to mount on the wire
wheels I have and so far 180.00 and up for each radial www tire.
would be nice to get some discount but so far no luck. would a
regular set of radial tires with either a raised letters or even a
small white wall look good. I found on u tube a person made his own
buy grinding off the black of a tire that had some white in it. I
can;t see this looking good has any one tried this.??

Chuck deyoe
1955 new yorker 4 door

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