Happy New Year and I finally bought the NOS Goodyears
 

Ended 2025 buy buying the NOS 1969 Goodyears in post 23.
Buddy had them and I finally got there.
Got a used one also.

HAPPY NEW YEAR all and hope it goes well for you.

Always like to start mine with a new toy.

https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthre...=183908&page=3

The used one is Jan 69.
Interesting as all 5 of her wheels are 1/6/9 dated.

Pic 1 is the date code on the used tire. Jan 1969
Pic 2 is chart showing date codes
Pic 3 is dates on the 4 NOS tires
Pic 4 is the date codes on the 4 NOS tires

congrats and thanks for the info

Very cool and thanks for the education on tires had no idea
I bought some NOS stahl front runners a few years ago I’ll have to check those dates. Does this work for all tires or just Goodyears?

Not my info.
Just tidbits from others articles I found on internet.

This info is for Goodyear prior to 1970 only.

I only dug till I found out what mine were.

Just noticed the used one is plant [2] CAL.

The 4 NOS are all plant [5] GAD

This is probably nutso to many, but it is fun to me.

Pics of dates etc. on the 4
3 have the small paper tag
One has a yellow "FV" ink stamp.

Pics 1- 3 are October 68
Pics 4- 6 are March 69
Pics 7- 10 are May 69
Pics 11- 12 are June 69

sticker on one of my tires

Thanks for the pic Ralph.

After further discussions with Greg and digging more info acquired.
Seems these are probably all spare tires removed by dealerships- Goodyear stores back in the day.

He thinks 1 came from a Chev dealer and 3 came from Goodyear stores.
He and I both really searched hard for this type of stuff starting early 80's.

One at least was replaced when the tires on car were replaced with radials.

Note 3 of the 4 have been driven on a few miles to slightly wear the nubs down.

Interested in the date of your F70X15
F70X15 was still in use in 1972 on Vettes.
The 14' version seems to have had a much narrower- shorter life.

Factory installed tires did not have tread tags.
Some had yellow ink stamps or crayon marks though.

F70x15 with tread sticker

small sticker on sidewall

Ralph, your tire looks to have been made at the Topeka plant 51st week of 1971.

I have 6 of them I am going to list for sale on a Corvette website only thing is they are BLEMS

Ralph,
The pics you posted in thread linked in post 1 show what we used to call a [wholesale] BLEM.
Likely done late 70's.

BLEM tires have only cosmetic issues.
A true BLEM would have white letters that were too much white or not enough.
That was the most common issue with tires like yours.

Note your BLEM mark is in a bare spot.
NOT over the DOT.
Note the tread tag has no BLEM marking.
Note the white letters are good= not a real BLEM.

Was told by a dealer back in early 80's Goodyear did this to obsolete- hard to sell tires so they could be sold cheaper with no warranty.

Made sense as we would encounter bunches of them like you have with nothing wrong with them.

True BLEMs sometimes had Goodyear and or DOT stuff ground off.
Have seen a few with that stuff ground off and FARM USE ONLY burnt into them.

Yours are easy to fix if all are like the one you posted.

My old 72 LT-1 M22 coupe would have been a good place for 5 of yours [depending on dates] of course.
If you got them from 1 place I would not be surprised if all 6 are close date wise.

NEAT STUFF

What do think they are worth ? I bought about 10 of them at a local Goodyear store in the middle seventies for a Corvette i used to own

These 2 cars had their new condition spares.
I found 4 more for each car.

The Hemi Coronets added 4 were all spare wheel- tire assys from other 66 Hemi cars. Later car so tires were all older than car.

The tires on 66 Hemi Mopar's are unique to them.

67 Chevelle had its "DG" wheels still, so it was easier as non- disc brake cars had same tires.
Snafu was 67 tires are "NF NYLON".
nOT "Load Range B"

This was much easier to do in 1985

Last pic is last year at MCACAN and it is not mine anymore

Are the dates close?
Remember they need to be older than car.

The problem with mine as 3 are newer than the car.
AND it came with Firestones to boot.

The BLEM mark on pictured tire would be easy to fix.

Value is tough as many could care less about this level of detail.
That said to the person that wants a car as close as possible to how it was new tires are one of the hardest details to get right.

Some may only want 1 to have a new condition spare.

I would test the market with the one that is the most out of place date wise.
GOOD LUCK

Ralph,
Should add that what cars take these tires is a big deal.
You may have only 1972 [depending on dates] Corvettes for these.

There was a 15" WTGT version COPO- YENKO tire listed here for $1,500.

My set is proper for the same 14" tire cars down to dates.
The car these will end up on if it goes that way is a COPO Chevelle.
Its spare has the same date as the newest one of mine.
Same assy plant on all 5 also.

Tires for Hemi wing Mopars and Boss 429 cars in NOS condition with proper dates are spendy for sure

F70X15 tires I have are for Corvette only