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In my case, the tires seen are a temp thing. They will not be the tires I use. I have a set of old Michelans, the ones they dont make any more. I do not like the ride of the bias plys! I had some on a 50 Plymoth I drove from San Diego to Seattle. I had a nasty habbit of exiting without my direction! The tires followed the grooves in the road REAL bad. Once I get my early slotted rims blasted and painted the michys go on and I got sweet safe correct wheels. -jason > StevenC=> Nice to see you're still running > => bias ply tyres too. > > Not to seem critical, but I've driven bias-ply tires on an old car > extensively. I understand the 'cool' factor in this, but I wouldn't do it > again, even with the most detailed stocker. You just can't do much driving > on them -- relative to modern tires, they're scary at speed. So for the > information of anyone thinking of going this far to create a period > restoration, just be prepared to keep it garaged except at parade time, and > stay off the freeway. > > Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ > '66 Big Ghia ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/