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Old 12-21-2016, 08:11 AM   #1
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Default White Walls (Just a question not trying to start a debate)

So what do you guys think about . . . . . Ah, never mind!
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Old 12-21-2016, 08:30 AM   #2
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Default Re: White Walls (Just a question not trying to start a debate)

If you are going to post a question you should pick a less controversial topic like maybe the election or Ford vs Chevy.
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Old 12-21-2016, 08:39 AM   #3
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Question serves no useful purpose in its present form. What is your question and what are you hoping to get from it? Wayne
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Old 12-21-2016, 09:10 AM   #4
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Looks sharp, not authentic but sharp.....
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The 31 Deluxe Rdst. I got from my dad has the double sided WW. Kind of flashy for sure but it matched my dad.
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Only my truck doesn't have white walls! The other cars all have them!
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Old 12-21-2016, 10:00 AM   #7
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So what do you guys think about . . . . . Ah, never mind!
If it's never mind delete it. It is a waste of space and appears it was posted to create controversy.

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Old 12-21-2016, 10:11 AM   #8
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I love white walls. I also enjoy the comments about them.

Think about it. it really is an era gone by.
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Old 12-21-2016, 10:32 AM   #9
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Oh, TIRES !

I thought you were posting a question about what color to paint your living room.
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Old 12-21-2016, 10:48 AM   #10
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Oh, TIRES !

I thought you were posting a question about what color to paint your living room.
A great, well deserved response to a bogus question Doug. Wayne
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Old 12-21-2016, 10:57 AM   #11
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Default Re: White Walls (Just a question not trying to start a debate)

They did exist in the Model A era (though they were double-sided in those days), so I think it's an "up to you option" if you're not going for points judging at a MARC / MAFCA sanctioned event.

Heck, there are even period photos of big trucks and tractor-trailer rigs sporting WWW tires all the way around !

I think they help increase the visibility of the car in traffic. I have always had them on my antique cars (mostly 1940's).

My Special Coupe came with a set, when they're bald, I will probably go with BW, for pocket-book reasons.

Unless points-judging applies to you, buy what your heart and pocket-book like.
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Old 12-21-2016, 11:02 AM   #12
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it is kinda hard to tell the color of the walls in a black and white photo, but it looks like you backed up into them when the paint was wet. Just in fun!!
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Old 12-21-2016, 11:04 AM   #13
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I like the whitewalls
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Old 12-21-2016, 11:05 AM   #14
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Default Re: White Walls (Just a question not trying to start a debate)

When I was contemplating buying tires, It was 'suggested' that I buy black walls. My brother got into the conversation and thought it would be a crime to put white walls on my brown 29 Special coupe. I bought the black walls. The following year my brother went out and bought white walls for his 31 roadster. Go figure...
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Old 12-21-2016, 11:37 AM   #15
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I'm debating this right now within my own head. I don't know what the "something" is about white walls, but there is "something". I think that whatever that "something" is, my Washington Blue (originally Brewster Green) roadster would not be as "flashy" without them. At events people seem to be drawn to her. [I]Maybeso I have answered my own question,FLASH! ?
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Old 12-21-2016, 11:41 AM   #16
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In my opinion, blackwalls match the era of the late 20s and 30s and that fact that the Model A was a working man's car, not a rich man's car... If I had a Packard or Cadillac, sure whitewalls but for me, blackwalls match the historically better. Now to each owner their own, put the tires that fit's your tastes.
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Old 12-21-2016, 11:42 AM   #17
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I think red lines would be the cats meow, especially on black with a red pin stripe.
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Old 12-21-2016, 11:46 AM   #18
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UGE ! Here we go again - this is a never ending question -" me " says - if you like them, use them, if not, don't use them...
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Old 12-21-2016, 11:47 AM   #19
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Everybody loves them but not everyone can afford them! It's often been said that the ones that don't like them are the ones that can't afford them. Wayne
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Old 12-21-2016, 12:03 PM   #20
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Default Re: White Walls (Just a question not trying to start a debate)

I think you folks are missing the question!

With the subject of White-Wall TIRES already having been discussed ad nauseum, Hoogah is doing what his wife asked him to do . . . .

"O.K. boozo, if you think pink is the color we ought to paint the living room walls . . . go online and ask your Model A buddies their opinion of what the color of our living room should be. The pink that you want, or the white walls that I want !"
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