Red stripe sidewall tires

About the only place to find them is from companies which specialize in reproduction tires for old cars. Expect to pay a stiff price for tires which often are not exactly of the most modern design and manufacturing.

Some of the larger vendors:

John wrote;, "About the only place to find them is from companies which specialize in reproduction tires for old cars. Expect to pay a stiff price for tires which often are not exactly of the most modern design and manufacturing." *********************************************** Thanks, John, I suppose you're probably right about the dinosaur technology and quality of these tires.

It still seems to me that if, say, Goodyear or some major manufacturer would come out with a line of red stripe tires they'd be at least popular enough to support their tooling up to produce them. Look at the myriad of other designs -- tread patterns, sidewall lettering, etc.

-- there's a zillion of them! And they're constantly changing them. I'd be surprised to find anyone who thinks the red stripe look is 'uncool.'

I worked part time selling at a tire shop a couple years ago and could have _swore_ I saw, in a catalogue there, a model of red stripe made by BFG -- with modern tread design, similar to the Radial T/A.

But this ws before I was interested in buying any so I didn't really pay much attention at the time.

Surprise ! ! !

Edwin Pawlowski wrote, "Surprise ! ! ! " *********************************************** Damn! I _hate_ surprises! ;-) But yeah, I must be wrong about the popularity of red stripes, otherwise someone would sure as hell be manufacturing modern tires with them. I guess there are a lot of sidewall lettering fonts and designs I wouldn't buy either, for that matter.

I bought a set of 4 for my 1970 Chevy Impala....They were sold at Esso dealers, "Tiger in your Tank" They were made by Atlas Tire...The Round Tire" ...Worse tire I have ever bought!>

The time frame would be about right. I had red stripe "wide oval" tires on a Mustang I had in '67 & '68. This was just before radials, with tubes no less, started to become available.