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- From: dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye )
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Radials on '60s era cars?
- Message-ID: <1992Oct08.161847.26172@i88.isc.com>
- Date: 8 Oct 92 16:18:47 GMT
- Article-I.D.: i88.1992Oct08.161847.26172
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- In article <1992Oct7.214440.4916@clipper.ingr.com> greeven@clipper.ingr.com (John Greeven) writes:
- >many '60s era cars with radials I've also heard that the suspensions
- >were not designed for radials and the combination can be bad or
- >even dangerous. At the very least I would only consider putting on
- >4 new radials and not mixing radial and bias ply tires, right?
-
- NEVER mix the two. The slip angles that they work at are
- so different that you will oversteer into a tree or understeer
- into a school bus.
-
- Radials handle soooooo much better than bias ply tires
- that there is no safety issue. If you are really worried, get
- some new shocks at the same time.
-
- When I bought my '68 Bonneville (last year) it had
- 4 bias ply tires. I'd been driving my '67 which has had radials
- since I'd bought it, and the just couldn't get used to the squishy,
- imprecise, swaying handling that the old 8.55x14's delivered.
-
- My parents just bought a '67 that had bias ply tires on it.
- Mom couldn't believe how bad the thing handled, since she had also been
- driving a similar vintage car with radials.
-
- However, I really miss that high pitched squeal the bias plys
- make when you patch out (when I first got it, the '68 sounded like the
- sound effects from Mad Max)!
-
- My '68 now rides on 235/70R15s in front, and 255/70R15s in
- the rear; BFG Radial T/As which I've been very pleased with.
-
- No flames from bias ply lovers, please. I know they can
- be made to work very well (Hoosiers, MickyT, etc.) but I am talking
- about passenger car tires here, not autocross/roadrace slicks.
-
- --Ken
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