[BaadAssGremlins] Re: bias tires (was: Space saver spare inflation cannisters)

["gremlin_corvette_guy" <gremlin_corvette_guy@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Eddie Stakes" 
<eddiestakes@...> wrote:

Hey Eddie, I appreciate your advice and your concern about the 
safety of all and I would almost never compromise that for 
appearances, however two points need to be made: 1). One thing you 
may not be familiar with with regard to the Woodward Dream Cruise 
here north of Detroit in August is that with 20,000 + cars and over 
a weeks worth of cruising come Friday and Saturday the cruise turns 
into a real crawl so not too much worry blowing out those bias 
belteds when speeds don't get over 30 mph and of course "show" is 
the name of the game not speed. (Well speeed when the cops aren't 
crawling all over).       If you ever have an interest go to 
www.woodwarddreamcruise.com to see past years highlights of cars 
from all over. 2). I don't care what anybody says but nothing beats  
on any of my 73 X's for class and originality a nice set of Goodyear 
RWL tires. I have a metallic purple with white stripes with a set of 
Radial T/As and it looks OK but not nearly as nice as the Maxi blue 
with the Goodyears. The picture of Donnie's sweet 74 Grem X  on 
Hemmings Classic Cars cover in May of last year says it all. Don't 
give me Cooper, or Yokahama, or even Generals on these classics. You 
have to go for the look and be damned if you blow one out due to dry 
rot after 30+ years. Jut whip out the space saver spare and bitch 
when the inflation cannister doesn't do a damn thing to help.    
Gary 

>
> In the "I should have died" category, in 1978 a hardcore GM friend 
of mine who loved to floor his Delta 88 with a 455, Steve Murch, a 
group of us had all skipped school one day and went to Padre Island 
with him, he drove, and we chipped in gas and beer. Come back over 
the causeway from Padre, there is a long straight, 3 mile stretch 
into Flour Bluff near the Naval Air Station. He punched it and I 
remember seeing the speedometer needle buried in 120, stuck there. 
We were all drunk but I told him "hey, constables have been shooting 
radar in Four Bluff latey, my brother got busted" and I can't tell 
you how quickly that needle came back down to 40mph as we went into 
the Bluff. 
> 
> I remember how much play there was in his steering wheel as he was 
driving that fast, seemed 2-3 inches from side to side. And on the 
left was a cement retaining wall, on the right, nothing but 
saltwater in the bay; less than 2 feet from roadside. At his house 
as we all went in for, duh, more beer, I looked at his tires. 
His 'bias' tires....two of them were bald as Charles Barkley's 
head.....and had STRINGS coming out of them. I can't believe 8-9 of 
us had been doing 130-140 in that car old bald...bias...tires.
> 
> I did go with Steve to the beach numerous times afterwards, 
however, he would go in my 70 Javelin; Junior's Impala; or someone 
else's car....not let him drive!
> Eddie Stakes'
> Planet Houston AMX
> 713.464.8825
> eddiestakes@...
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Bradley Jones 
>   To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 3:39 AM
>   Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Space saver spare inflation 
cannisters
> 
> 
>   I can vouch for the bias vs radials. 1965 Police interceptor For 
Galaxie. How the cops drove that thing on the bias tires at high 
speed is beyond me. Swapped radials onto it and it hugged the road 
like a Porsche. 
> 
>   Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@...> wrote: 
>     Hi Gary, my suggestion would be that if you are going to go on 
the Dream 
>     Cruise, is toy get yourself some good radials. Bias tires 
suck, even 
>     original the cars are all over the road. That 71 Matador I had 
a few years 
>     ago with 14K miles had original bias ply tires and remember 
driving it to 
>     the Nationals 40 miles from me, car was all over the road with 
them. I would 
>     later put on some cheap NTB radials, 4 for $120 and what a 
difference it 
>     made, car stuck to road and din't know how to act. But stock 
for stock sake 
>     is one thing, stock vs safety issue is another. It's something 
I go on about 
>     (as usual) somewhere on my site: Bendix 65-71 calipers vs 72-
up Kelsey 
>     Hayes; vacuum wipers vs electric wipers; even 65-71 boat 
anchor Borg Warner 
>     M-11/M-12 vs 904/727s. But your choice. If me? While redlines 
and E70x14s 
>     are great, especially if you show a lot; if you drive it a 
lot, get some 
>     radials, take care,
>     Eddie Stakes'
>     Planet Houston AMX
>     713.464.8825
>     eddiestakes@...
>     www.planethoustonamx.com
>     email reply currently 5-9 days
>     8-19 day reply times, just call!
> 
>     >>
>     >> Thanks Eddie, I knew you would set me straight. (The 
whippin with
>     > the Pacer weatherstrip was not bad either). The big problem 
is
>     > hauling around 2 spares - one for show and one to use in 
case of
>     > real emergency. My 30+ year old Goodyear RWL biased tires 
are not
>     > going to hold out forever and who needs a blow out for the 
Dream
>     > Cruise. I guess it is time to start saving for a solid set 
of repro
>     > E70x14 Goodyears from Kelsey or Coker. Gary
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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