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I have them on 42 and they work fairly well. Would suggest if you buy a set than use some spray glue to hold them in place when you mount them on your tires. I bought my set out of tire outfit down in LA. Cost about 50 dollars for a new set and that includes delivery

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I have had them on my 41 Chrysler since 1975. They looked good and fit tight don't know how they looked going down the highway. I know a guy that is running port-a-walls on radial tires.

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I took in a tire with a porta wall to the local young mechanic for repair of a flat. He was so impressed with the ingeniousness of the design he walked around his shop for an hour showing his employees. He had never even heard of such a thing. Nice to show the younger generation we did some neat things back in the day .

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I've used them with okay success. The trick is getting them down into the bead of the tire far enough. Wonder what that whitewall tire paint I see on Ebay is like. On Youtube, there is a clip of a guy grinding down a tire to a wide whitewall.

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Bought a set at a swap meet for $10 Guess I got lucky, put them on radials and they really lay good. Original 50 dodge wheels. They are narrow stripe but looks a lot better than black.

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Don't take this the wrong way. But.........if you are going to buy new tires anyway. Why not just buy whitewall tires in the first place, if that's what you want?

If you are buying old style new bias blackwalls, you can pay about $15 or so extra for each tire and get a wide white. If you are buying new radials at the local store, just buy the skinny white walls. They look ok on the old cars too in my opinion. If you buy blackwalls, you still have to pay for the porta walls and install them. So.........there is no real savings involved in my opinion to buy porta walls.

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Dont need new tires,when I bought the car last year it had new tires on it, they just have a small white wall. I like the looks of a wide white wall better.

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Dont need new tires,when I bought the car last year it had new tires on it, they just have a small white wall. I like the looks of a wide white wall better.

I use the feel the same as you do. That's why I have wide whites on my coupe now. It's also why I have the bias tires on the 48. Radial wide whites are much more expensive.

After owning wide whites and having them on the car for the last 8 or 10 years (two sets of them), I no longer feel that way. During that time I've seen a lot of guys just running the run of the mill skinny modern white wall on their cars, both here and at shows, etc. So........last year I picked up another set of wheels with the intent to put the skinny radial white wall tires on those. Didn't get around to painting them this year, but should next summer. Then I will run those and put the wide whites away for safe keeping.

From the picture you posted I think your car looks great just the way it is. Of course, it's your car though. Remember, the more white exposed on the tires the harder it is to keep them clean.;) Take a look at all the profiles. A lot of guys are running the skinny white walls and they look alright too. At least to me they do.

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I decided it was wide whites or nothing so I have mine mounted backwards. I like the look for my car. It matches the rest

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Quite a few years ago, there was a guy who owned a tire shop here who

had a grinding machine to make or widen whitewalls.

I took him the 67 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible we had at the time for

him to widen the narrow whites on it. Came out pretty good....were

in between narrow and wide. Made it look just a little different.

You had to be careful about scraping the curb.

He said there is more white material under the black than is showing

for the narrow white. So they simply grind the black off to get down to

that white area.

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Dont need new tires,when I bought the car last year it had new tires on it, they just have a small white wall. I like the looks of a wide white wall better.

It is all a matter of preferrance but your car looks sharp with the narrow stripe..it accents your wheels which further compliments your car..wide whites tend to draw your focus to the wheels and keep you there thus taking from your car completely...I have www's on the 54 as they came with the car..they definitely gonna go deep 6..

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Coker tire 423-265-6368

Universal vintage tire 800-233-3827

White wall candy store714-649-2393

Diamond back classics 880-922-1642

These vendors and more are in the back of every Hemming's issue. I have never had the need to look ant farther than that.

What I did for mounting was drive around to the Mom&Pop tire shops until I found an oldtimer to mount the tires by hand, well worth the effort just to watch him at work!

The franchise shops just don't give a $hit about your concerns, in and out that's our motto!

Good hunting!

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in and out is the way to make money...they care less about your concerns as they really do not pay the overhead...it is just a sign of the times and the way business operates these days..don't like it..move along, you be blocking the counter from the man behind you in line...

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Some of the first tires were all white because they did'nt dye them, the gum from the tree is white in natural state.

Maybe all of the sidewall did not get as dirty as the treads and there is your original whitewall..lol..!

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Don' date=' I am surprised you didn't google the "History of White Wall Tires".:confused: Anyway, the wide white tires first came about in the late 20's according to this article. [url']http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewall_tire[/url]

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Actually I did google such. Guess I should have asked when did Mopar first supply cars with the wide white wall tires.

Seems there are a lot of cars running wide white wall tires where they dont belong.

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Norm;

Actually I did google such. Guess I should have asked when did Mopar first supply cars with the wide white wall tires.

Seems there are a lot of cars running wide white wall tires where they dont belong.

Don't really know the answer offhand. That link shows a 38 Chrylser with wide whites. Doesn't say it's the first Chrysler though. Guess I could look in my History of Chrysler book and look for it. Not now though, would probably take awhile. Actually though, since it was a luxury item back in the 20's you could probably find them on any car.

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As I thumb through the STANDARD CATALOG OF CHRYSLER, I see whitewalls throughout the 30's and even back to the 20's. However I'm not sure all the pictures are year of manufacture photos.

As I thumb through my collection of original factory publications (sales, repair, etc.) I see no whitewalls before 1940.

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