Hi Everyone,
I have run a set of the Broadway Classics on
my '66 Eldorado since late '95 and have been most pleased with them. I
have hardly worn off much of the tread. The white wall width is 1.23
inches (from the literature I received at the tire store). I did
experience a little yellowing of the white wall at first but I think that was
due to the cars being started and being allowed to run inside the shop.
The fumes may have contributed to the yellowing. I clean the whitewalls
with carb. cleaner sprayed on a shop cloth and they are as white as the driven
snow now! I also have the same set on my '65 Crown convertible (away
at 'finishing' school) and look forward to running the heck out of them when the
car is back in my possession. I have toyed with the idea of replacing the
Broadways on the Crown with triple stripe bias plies. I've had the front
end completely rebuilt so it should handle nicely with them on the
car. I do know the car should look better with the
bias plies on it. It will sit correctly and not appear as dumpy and
squatty as it does now with the radials. I guess that is because the bias
plies make the car sit higher. I replaced the radials on my '63
T-bird with bias plies and the car doesn't even look the same. It looks
like the cars in the vintage ads I have!
Greg McDonnell
Mobile, AL
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