Vintage Rubber or Radials on a 69 Z28 ???

[olredalert]

-------Bought Coker radials for my Grand Prix, and took them off this summer as I didnt like the way the car drove WITH the radials,,,go figure. I think its two reasons. 1. Im old and remember how cars drove back in the day. 2. The car is old and set up for bias-plys. Now that I have the Goodyear bias-plys back on Im actually back to liking to drive the car again.......Bill S

[70elcaminoLS6]

Any Questions?

[lzdick]

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Randy,
Why Polyglas tires on a '69 car? Weren't they introduced in 1970? Wide Tread GT was the tire in 1969.
Rich

[Salvatore]

I agree with Dan. I love my L60/15 Goodyears and my polyglas tire look but comfort, handling and less annoying I like my BFG's. I have the radials mounted on TTO's. They handle and ride much nicer. I drove on those hard a$$ tires back in the day for years. Don't need a refresher course. Now I can give my arthritis a rest.

[Chevy454]

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Do the guys that are racing in FAST use the style tires?

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While not a FAST car, in Pure Stock we're running right at 116mph on them, without a hitch...we haven't ran radials on any of our older cars since the day we brought home our Y-Camaro...some of the guys in the the FAST class are running 130mph or better on them.

[Survivor 69/Z28]

Rusty,
It sure is nice to see someone running a Olds down the track. Those are strong #'s in your post. How stock is your Hurst Olds?

[@wot]

I had radials on my Nova for a couple of years, then switched to bias ply. I love the bias ply, although you need to re acquaint yourself with the strange wandering feeling we all lived with 30 years ago.

[SmallHurst]

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Rusty,
It sure is nice to see someone running a Olds down the track. Those are strong #'s in your post. How stock is your Hurst Olds?

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I can tell you it is stock! All 4200# of lovable Olds-mo-bubble! The A/C still works great, it has 48K on the clock (it had 24K on it when I purchased it in '95). I ran with my stock 3.23 gearing in it until this past summer when I had another 'O' axle done with 3.91 gears and a locker. Looking to try and get into the 12's! See you at SCR X!

[70elcaminoLS6]

Maybe you should do a little more research, If you can't find it... I might be willing to show it to you

[70elcaminoLS6]

Could it depend on when the car was produced??????????? http://www.tudelft.nl/live/binaries/...traatsburg.pdf
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