The New, Newer Project: Part Tres...

[njsteve]

Took the SD out for a cruise night on Saturday. Still runs great!

Of course no good deed goes unpunished. While walking around the garage after getting back, I noticed that one of my original NOS Firestone 500 tires that I have stacked up in storage decided to let go during the winter.

This is what awaited me when I walked around the back of my garage.



BTW, the photo is not at an angle, this is parallel to what was originally the tread surface. This was one of the two NOS GR70x15 Firestone Radial 500's I found for the car. The three original tires are still doing OK (fingers crossed).

These tires have been known to explode on their own even while unmounted. Like a ball of rubber bands snapping, only it's steel cord instead of rubber band. Here's a link to a Corvette forum where one let go inside the fiberglass spare tire tub, under the car: http://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/...-recalled.html

Anyone got another 1973 500 out there?