Re: [Amc-list] lettered tires

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Welcome back!
I'm going to be living thru the deeds of others here for a while yet I figure so send lots of details!
I had an offer to work as I.A.T.S.E. crew chief for "The Bad Boys of Rock" concert here on Sunday. I figured I would not have ot do any labor so i took it. Well, one weekend shot to hell later I regret that decision! No labor involved other then being on my feet for hours on end and people whining and complaining and begging for different things.
  My back has now joined in the complaint department. The pain clinic is being a pain. I missed work yesterday hoping things would be better today. No dice, still miserable, The good news is something hurts worse then my shoulder for a change! Bad news is, I don't know when or if I will ever see an end to this and i'm getting real depressed! Joy...
  Need to find someone to put the dynomax exhaust stuff of on the Cherokee. It's looking like it will be a good idea to just pay someone to do it. The last thing I want to do is agravate this some more. How in the hell I'm going to finish off some of the stuff I wanted to do is up in the air, big time.
  Crap...

Lettered tires, hmmm, Don't htink there are many made in those sizes anymore. there is alway hand lettering them, but most I've seen done look pretty fake with rough edges on the lettering. Avoid the temptation to buy some old takeoffs! I have a set of 14" Daytonas on the conv. They looked like new till one of them went flat from a cracked valve stem. The sidewalls promptly split to the cords, no way they woud have been even remotely safe to run!
  Unless its for a  trailered show car and points don't even think about using old tires! Your cars aren't show queens! No offens intended, I know you want to drive it!

For the Rally look, you need to find a dual carb intake for that 195.6! don't forget to split the exhaust, well maybe not for a rally car! Besides, the 195.6 would be a fine rally car engine. They ran what they had!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Speaking of old-fashioned tire trends, now that Burning Man is over (and won't 
> suck up all my cash and time until next summer :-) it's Rambler time again! 
> This weekend I should be able to get the front suspension together and figure 
> out what tiny stuff I'm missing, and start on solving the front shock 
> problem.
> 
> What's the story on white-letter tires these days? Google searching tire shops 
> (discounttire, coker, etc) doesn't show much choices. With a 5" wide rim 
> (wheel choices are poor for this car) I'm pretty much stuck to 195/70-15's 
> plus or minus a profile or size or two (25.9" needed, though I could swap 
> speedo gears, if it doesn't throw the well-chosen final ratio off much).
> 
> Stylewise, for this 63 American twin-stick hardtop, I'm thinking of a 60's 
> streetrod/rally car hybrid look, even though that's somewhat ridiculuous with 
> a 195.6, it will look cool, and incongruity, well only people "our" age will 
> laugh, and get the joke (and the fun) of it. I have nice genuine 60's Moon 
> and other tachs for a six (courtesy the Navarro auction) and other details to 
> go with like real giant Hella driving lights I bought in a flea market in 
> East Berlin two years ago.
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