Thread: My next move with hiboy's metamorphosis

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Yeah, run em. Have a ball!!!! I can't even conceive of how "look" could possibly convince me to go back to bias tires.... Heck, go all the "way back" and run an enclosed driveline with a broken off shank from a Craftsman screwdriver substituted for the axle spline key!!!! Then, throw out the seat belts and use a blue flame wrench to get more drop in the front axle!!! Any of us who lived through these things are totally clueless as to how "horrid" they are!!!!! Just a bunch of old geezers with bad memories, I guess!!!!

I mean heck, the "right look" is far more important then your own or safety or the safety of others on the highway....

Just about everything about street rodding is about "the look". If it wasn't, we'd just drive what everyone else drives. There's no question everything about modern cars is safer and more comfortable in just about every way... If thats what's most important to you, you should be driving a Camry. I'm all for safety in hotrods, I just don't understand where everyone got the idea that bias ply tires are so terrible and unsafe.

Originally Posted by joeybsyc

Just about everything about street rodding is about "the look". If it wasn't, we'd just drive what everyone else drives. There's no question everything about modern cars is safer and more comfortable in just about every way... If thats what's most important to you, you should be driving a Camry. I'm all for safety in hotrods, I just don't understand where everyone got the idea that bias ply tires are so terrible and unsafe.

Joey, I probably built more cars last year then you have in your life. I think I know how to achieve "the look" without comprimise.... Where I got the idea that radia tires are so much better then bias is having driven cars in the 60's when bias tires were the norm and radials (as mentioned in another post) were junk. But hey, what would I know. As for the Camry comment, I'd like to have one!!! Economical car with a great ride.... Not to be confused with a hot rod, however.... I much prefer building something totally unique.

The horror stories about bias plys are BS IMO. Never have run anything else, never will. I've driven many times through blinding rains at highway speeds, and my '27 cornered like a sportscar too. I think radials on a fenderless car break up the "look."

As for size, I run 5:60 front, and L78-15 rears. You also want to order a narrower white wall on the front than the rear, or they look goofy. These sizes will give you a 26 inch front and 30 inch rear tire. Coker is where I shop.

Here is this combo on my kids T bucket we are building.


Don

Here are a couple more shots of the same size combo on my '27.


Don