Re: [Chrysler300] tire summary

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Carl and All:
This experience of mine may be of some interest.  When I bought my  300C in 
July of 1963, it was equipped with tires (brand unkown) of approximately  
the correct whitewall width, but with considerable wear.  When I decided to  
get new ones, either late that year or early the next, I went right to 
Goodyear  and ordered four 9.00 X 14 Blue Streaks.  I picked them up at the 
Goodyear  plant on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit.  Even though they were the proper 
 300C size, the whitewall size was the same as current new car 
tires----about 1  1/8" narrow band.  Of course, this combination of tire size and 
whitewall  width was never used on a production Blue Streak.  So, it appears that  
Goodyear, and probably the other tire companies as well, produced their  
replacement tires with the same design whitewall currently used on production  
cars----not worrying too much about the needs of us "old car  nuts".
300ly, Gil Cunningham
 
 
In a message dated 11/18/2011 12:39:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
millserat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Actually  the white wall width was not an individual car issue - though 
there were  some unique configurations in the 70's and 80's with triple 
whites and odd  widths, but the Tire industry - as dictated mostly by the 
new car stylists  changed widths from time to time. Pretty much all cars 
changed from wide  to medium and later to about 2.5 inch width at same 
time on OE tires -  second lines generally followed a year or so later. 
In 1962, they went  from whitewalls extending to rim on inside to what 
was called a  "beautyline" whitewall that had a narrow (about 1 inch) 
white separated  from rim by a black area. Later they varied slightly - 
generally trending  to more narrow until 1971 dual white and then back to 
narrow white and  finally blackwall.

On 11/18/2011 11:08 AM, C Bilter  wrote:
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> Actually, according to the  club website, from 1957 through 1960 the 
letter
> cars all came with  2-1/2" to 2-11/16" whitewalls in a 9.00x14" tire. The
> wider white in  '61 probably had to do with switching to the 8.00x15" 
tire.
> The  question is valid, however, because in 1961 a 3+" whitewall was 
pretty
>  wide for factory issue. The 1961 Imperials, for example, which came  with
> 8.20x15" tires actually had a narrower whitewall of perhaps  2-1/2" or so.
> Perhaps it had something to do with availability of  tires that could
> accommodate the high speed capabilities of the  G.
>
> Carl Bilter
>
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> Behalf Of Anthony  Rinaldi
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 10:52 AM
> To: Bob;  Chrysler 300 Club
> Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] tire  summary
>
> Hi to all,
>
> Any rhyme or reason why  they went to 3" WWWs in 1961 from 2" WWWs in 
1960?
>
> Tony  Rinaldi
>
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