1965 Dodge Dart Charger
I did a bit of searching after I read this post. Just go to YouTube and search for 'whitewall shaving' and there are lots of videos of people doing this without any fancy equipment.
I would still want to experiment on an old tire first to make sure I could duplicate the finish of the original whitewall.
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Originally Posted by 65dartcharger View Post
I was wondering if this could be done. I was thinking that years ago used car dealers cut the sidewalls to make the groove for 'painted' whitewalls. Factory whitewalls have the white rubber extending out under the black rubber past the groove so it might be possible to trim a bit of the black off to make the whitewall a bit wider. I would want to try it on a scrap tire first but it could very well work if done carefully. I haven't seen one of those tire lathes for years, though.
MOBodyman! I checked out the tires today and I think it can be done. That tool you mentioned "tire lathes" is sometihing I never have heard about.
Around the inner part of the tire is a small line. That line is the same on all tires. I check and all whitewall sides starts after 9/16". So that means that the work needs to be done one the other side of the whitewall.
I was thinking of mount the tire on a wheel and then mount it on a hub horizontal and then fabricate an arm where a air tool is mounted to grind of the rubber. But it needs to be concave since the profile on the tire is concave! WIth that I think it would be possible to get the whitewall correct.
Most of the DartChargers I have seen has have black walls. The old sales guys from the dealerships says that the black walls was the most common but you could also have white walls. I have a picture of a DartCharger sold new in Lake Tahoe and that car had white walls when it took delivery.
What my car had I actually don't know! There is no information on the fendertag. If I have had the Broadcast sheet I would have nown.
So my qestion is; Does anyone have a picture of that tool?
Some of them also came with 13" Bluelines. Had to be ordered that way
I must admit that I have never seen those tires! I know for sure that in May of 1965 some Dart could be ordered with 6.95x14 whitewall, blackwall and blue line. The last tires were for Barracuda only as part of the formula s package. But 13" Interesting. Do you have any more pictures and stuff to share?