CP

Hi,

Yesterday, I saw a 1976 gold Buick Riviera rolling down the road with all-white side wall tires. Looks like a gold-fish on glazed donuts.

That reminded me that when I started driving in the early 70s, all the tire stores (especially Sears and K-Mart) were advertising white wall tires. The car ads would even memtion white-wall tires as if it was a badge of honor. So I paid more attention to cars on the road these days and NEVER see another white wall tire. May be I wan't paying attention, but when did white walls die out?

Kind of brings back fond memories when cars were all new and exciting to me, WAAAAAYYYYY back then.

CP

ibdavid

My guess is late 70's early 80's. I do hope they're NOT making a come back, however if they did it would provide more entertainment on the road.

User 4221

About the time Goodyear released the Polysteel radials on the late '70s early '80s Trans-am!

Now, where is my Lynard Skynard album?

Randy M

I'll confess. I like raised white letter tires. Only on certain cars though.

97Targa

They're still available for classic cars @ www.coker.com Raised white letter too for '70s muscle cars.

mborkow

time to break out the bell-bottoms and grow out the 'fro!

seege

Oh man the memories.. BFG T/A Comps with raised white letters! The first high performance tires I ever bought, and IIRC the first tire over $100 bucks I had seen. I think a mount and "spin" balance was $12 or so a set back then, as opposed to the $100 I pay the dealer here now.

BobbyB

Woo Hoo what do you mean? When I'm in LA, I see some late model devilles with them, Vogues I believe.....but as others have said they started to fade once the US makers decided to put "Euro tuned" in their advertisements -