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Hey guys,
Does anyone remember portawalls from the 50s and early 60s? They were a rubber white insert that you put on the tire before it was mounted on the rim to make a black wall look like a white wall. Does anybody still make them? Just a thought. Maybe a new old come back in the works.

Jack.

Originally Posted by Jack F

Hey guys,
Does anyone remember portawalls from the 50s and early 60s? They were a rubber white insert that you put on the tire before it was mounted on the rim to make a black wall look like a white wall. Does anybody still make them? Just a thought. Maybe a new old come back in the works.

Jack.

We ran 'em with tube-type tires. Don't know if they would work with tubeless tires. The main problem with 'em was that....at speed, the air would get between the port-a-wall and the tire and stretch the paw material so that it looked like a bunched-up mess. As long as you were just runnin' around town, they were fine, but stay off the high-speed roads.

And that's why we call them Flappers over here.

Believe it or not, Jack, they are still available! Here is a link:

http://www.portawalls.com/

I ran some back in the early 60's, but they were very short lived. If you touched a curb they tore, and even going down the highway chunks would come flying off. Maybe these new ones are better.

Don

I guess way back then my cars didn't go fast enough to encounter those problems.

I run them on my teardrop trailer but wouldn't run them on a car for the same reasons as Don said.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Believe it or not, Jack, they are still available! Here is a link:

http://www.portawalls.com/

I ran some back in the early 60's, but they were very short lived. If you touched a curb they tore, and even going down the highway chunks would come flying off. Maybe these new ones are better.

Don