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Depends on how you drive... look them over CAREFULLY... generally over 15 years and tires are unsafe, but they dont all age the same and my father still has bias tires on the Tbird and they have been on there since at least the late 60's and still look and drive OK (though I wouldnt cruise the interstate with them). Ive also seen an original spare tire in a 37 DeSoto that looked mighty nice, but I doubt id go that far.. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Everett Barnes" <everettb@thesamba.com> To: "Type 3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 10:26 AM Subject: [T3] Bias plys > I recently found a set of original Continental 6.00x15 tires for sale. > These are the correct original early Type 3 tires (AFAIK). I am considering > buying them for my '63 Squareback, which I don't drive much. I'm not sure > how old they are (no date codes) but they have no cracking and appear to be > in great shape. They were originally from the Eastern US so they didn't see > much sun. > > Would it be safe to run these tires? They are tubeless. > > I drove on >20 yr. old bias plys on my Bus for around 10,000 miles with no > troubles (other than flats) but they had tubes. In retrospect, that was > pretty stupid. > > Any guesses on value? > > -- > Everett Barnes > '63 Squareback > > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/