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11-26-2004, 03:17 PM
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Why Did Muscle Cars Have Such Skinny Tires??
I'm watching a muscle car marathon on the speed channel, which i bet yall are too :-)
Why did the 60's/70's cars have such thin tires?? They look like they get like 5 inches tread to the ground. 
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11-26-2004, 04:27 PM
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Re: Why Did Muscle Cars Have Such Skinny Tires??
they didnt have the technology to make wider ones
back then they made bias ply tires and now they make radial tires. its a lot easier to make radials wider
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11-26-2004, 05:12 PM
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Re: Why Did Muscle Cars Have Such Skinny Tires??
Damn, i figured it had something to do with insurance costs or something.. Like the company's seeing wider/bigger wheels and it provoked a more "sporty" (more expensive) look.
Now i know, thanks.
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11-26-2004, 05:43 PM
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Re: Why Did Muscle Cars Have Such Skinny Tires??
Na, nothing so exotic. Back then we would not have thought "wide=sporty". Bias-Ply tires were awful, be glad you missed it. But we did not no any better then.
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11-26-2004, 06:13 PM
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Re: Why Did Muscle Cars Have Such Skinny Tires??
Man, i'm 23, but i wish those cars where being made now-i love them. I never drove a big block muscle car, that must be awesome. All that power is intense, even though alot of those cars weighed 3900+lbs, they had torque for days. One day i will own one :-)
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