Have you found a source for the triple stripe tires???
Mark
On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 03:59 PM, Greg and Russell wrote:
Hi Everyone,
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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!�
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Greg McDonnell
Mobile, AL
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