Any DUers have white-wall tires on their ride?

[DemoTex]

I haven't seen any in ages.

[Lars39]

1. I saw blue-wall tires yesterday....what the heck is that about?

Did the tires get put on wrong or is just a new look?

[Stinky The Clown]

3. The blue is a protective coating. It washes off

Usually the installer washes it off.

It means the tires are brand new.

[Lars39]

5. Ahhh, ok.

I think I've gotten to the age where I've forgotten more than I ever knew.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Protective coating. The blue wears off.

Then, they are white.

[Lars39]

6. But the blue's so pretty!

[marybourg]

2. That's because "whitewalls"

are just thin little white stripes nowadays.

[dysfunctional press]

7. and most tires don't have that- all black is what the majority are.

[marybourg]

22. My new tires are reversible! "Whitewall" (stripe)/all black nt.

[dipsydoodle]

11. Not Cokers

http://www.northhantstyres.com/coker.htm

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Whitewalls were cool, but ya hadda luv ur car, clean em up and brush them

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[DeepBlueC]

24. I loved them

And I loved washing my car and spiffing it up.

[dipsydoodle]

9. I did have a new set

of skinny 19" white wall put on my '29 Model A Sport Coupe about 6 years ago before I finally sold it. I recall at the time , that here in the UK , Cokers were available for rodded cars and I'm sure they stil are. At that time Coker strictly controlled the selling price here and probably still do.

Are people fitting white walls to PT Cruisers over there ?

[bluesbassman]

17. Yeah they do, see them here in the Bay Area.

[tularetom]

10. I actually had to go outside and look. Nope

[dysfunctional press]

12. styles change- but here's a couple of useful resources-

http://www.widewhitewalltires.com /

or- a video that shows how to make your own whitewalls- (at your own risk, of course... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkcm3rh60p0

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Sometimes.

[Muttocracy]

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[TahitiNut]

14. Yup. On my mother's 1977 Monte Carlo.

[DemoTex]

16. That reminds me of my mother's 1972 Buick Skylark ..

Actually, it started out as mine and it did have whitewalls. But after I mustered out of Uncle Sugar's Green Machine, I couldn't afford the plush ride of a Buick. So, my mom got the car and I got her 1966 Chevy wagon. She drove the Buick Skylark for over 20 years. The vinyl roof was peeling off, the quarter panels were rusting, and the car had high miles. But she loved it. She had one of those little bean-bag ashtrays between the seats for her "cigs" (they finally killed her last year), and the car was always filthy. That's why my car and my brother's are always spotless.

In the mid-1990s she traded it in on a Ford Escort wagon. Well, not really. The Ford place gave her $200 NOT to trade it in! She, ever the Scot, sold it on a local AM station's hilarious "Swap-Buy-And-Sell" for $500! Hell .. it ran!

So she bought the Escort wagon in February. She haggled and brow-beat the poor salesman and got a great deal. This is in middle Georgia. In April, when it started getting hot, she took the Escort wagon back to the Ford dealer to have the inoperative air-conditioner fixed. Of course, the service manager was a former 6th grade student of hers. Everyone and their dog knew my momma.

"Uh, Miz T_____ , your Escort ain't got a air-conditioner."

"What!? Young man? 'It does not have an air-conditioner!' Oops! Why?"

Thus the Escort wagon POS was traded, with very low mileage, on another big Buick for mommer. White side-walls (narrow by then .. disappearing like the Cheshire Cat) and an ass-freezing GM air-conditioner .. and the ubiquitous bean-bag ash tray. God bless her sweet soul!

[Obamanaut]

15. My Suzuki C90T (motorcycle) came with whitewalls. When they

wore out, I replaced them with plain black tires. I'm too lazy and sorry to keep white walls on a motorcycle white, and they look so nasty if they're dirty.

[Midlodemocrat]

18. 'Ride?' That is a very disrespectful way to refer to the MidloVan.

[wartrace]

19. I MAKE whitewall tires. (or at least work at a place that makes them)

I will be working there for the next seven weeks & then we are shutting down and moving production to Mexico. There are whitewalls on my vehicle but it is just the raised white lettering.

[mainegreen]

20. I used to on my last car, but it would look dumb on my current.

I always loved having whitewalls.

[Marr]

21. On the back tire of my motorbike. :D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. I have White Letter Tires... not the same thing, I know. I just felt like

posting.

[AlCzervik]

25. my first car had them, a 79 cutlass supreme brougham in old lady blue.

that car loved oil so much, just lapped it right up.