Wheels and tires
 

Looking for opinions ? My pickup came to me with 15" wheels (originally 16" I believe from Canada) and white wall Firestone bias ply tires. Just to experiment I pulled the 16" wheels and nearly new Diamond back tires off the coupe and tried them on the truck, Today was the first time I've had a chance because of poor weather to go for a ride , quite a difference in the handling for sure. The bias tires from the truck are pretty old but show no cracks either on the side walls or tread. Question is: would it be better to look for another set of 16" wheels or buy new Diamondback radials for the 15" rims already on the truck ?

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I would go with new Diamonf Back radials for the 15 in. wheels you already have.

New tires are safer than old 16 in. tires and will save you the cost of buying 16 in. wheels.

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I agree with 19Fordy. If you go to my MISC album of pictures, there are 4 pictures of a 40 coupe that burned due to old tires. The LR tire blew out and took out the filler pipe and the bare wheel on the pavement provided the sparks. The car was on a tour and had just filled the tank. That car belonged to a friend of mine, his tires looked fine but were 30+ years old. (Somehow those pictures are now at the end of all of them and they used to be at the beginning, so I don't know how that happened.)

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OMG ! Were you ever able to salvage the remains or too far gone ? So very sorry to see that little ride go up in flames. Gotta be a heart breaker for sure.

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Yeah, a heart breaker, it was a total loss. NOT MY 40 COUPE! But a friend's who owned it a very long time.

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Fire does strange things to metal. They are very rarely salvageable. I had a fire in my shop in 2010, lost 3 cars and a lifetime of stuff, very little survived. Still use "blue " wrenches and sockets today !

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If you have a burning barrel made out of a 50-gallon drum, you know what the sheet-metal is like.

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That almost sounds like a half-way reasonable analogy. Coop

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Bob if you remember my 39 peeek-up @ Bonney Eagle several years ago I had the Coker Classics WW on that. I love those tires and the WW cleans up nice with the Mr. clean magic eraser.