bias ply tire memories.

When I was a teenager in the 1990s with no money, I found a pair of my pops' 15" American racing Torq Thrust wheels that came on his second '67 GTX that he bought in the early 80s. These wheels had some great looking bias ply Goodyears on them. He had long since swapped them out for some other wheel/tire....

He said that he didn't mind if I bolted them onto the Dart and drove around but that I should be careful since they were ancient (already a minimum of 15 years old...and probably older).

Well, they looked cool as hell to my 18 year old eye...but in addition to being as old as the hills, they were a mismatch to the radials on the front...that was a scary experience. I had them on there for a couple months and I damn near spun the car around twice in the rain before I ditched them in favor of some used $25 dollar radials that were way, way, way better than the old Goodyear bias ply tires. :D

Thanks for the lesson, Dad!!

Craig Burriss said

The only experience I have with them is the junky CJ5 I used to have. It had 4 different types of tires on it, one of them being a bias ply from ‘86.
I had it on the front for about a half a day but it made the steering almost uncontrollable.
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So it drove...like a CJ5. :D