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- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Radials on '60s era cars?
- Message-ID: <1992Oct9.214423.3246@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Date: 9 Oct 92 21:44:23 GMT
- References: <1992Oct7.214440.4916@clipper.ingr.com> <1992Oct08.161847.26172@i88.isc.com>
- Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
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- In article <1992Oct08.161847.26172@i88.isc.com> dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye ) writes:
- > 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.
-
- quite; in the specialized area of competition tires, there are sound
- reasons to run bias ply tires for specific applications; for passenger
- cars on the street, bias ply tires have been obsolete for more than
- 20 years.
-
- richard
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