decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Brougham d'Elegance

http://www.dbtires.com/pricelist_13_...4_Custom42.htm

http://www.whitewallcandystore.com/Specs.asp

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...q=wide+ white

http://www.petepaulsen.com/Catalogof...ll%20Tires.htm

On Mar 17, 9:35*pm, wrote:
> http://www.petepaulsen.com/Catalogof...lTires/Wide%20...

Thanks for the links.
But they're all so damned EXPENSIVE!
Firestone FR721s used to be about $71 apiece.
What happened to them?
Are they coming back?

On Mar 17, 11:23*pm, The Derfer > wrote:
> On Mar 17, 9:35*pm, wrote:
>
> >http://www.petepaulsen.com/Catalogof...lTires/Wide%20...
>
> Thanks for the links.
> But they're all so damned EXPENSIVE!
> Firestone FR721s used to be about $71 apiece.
> What happened to them?
> Are they coming back?

When's the last time you bought "specialty" tires?

The Derfer > wrote in news:fa767fe7-928d-40bb-a925-
:

>
> Thanks for the links.
> But they're all so damned EXPENSIVE!
> Firestone FR721s used to be about $71 apiece.


In what year's dollars?

Continuous currency debasement by the government over the years means those
dollars get a LOT smaller as time goes by, so you need more of them to buy
the same thing. Do you still earn $25 per day?




--
Tegger

The Derfer wrote:
>> Tire traction will be the least of your worries in south Florida. That baby
>> will rust away long before she skids...
>
> That's BS.
> Cars do way better there than in the Northeast where they dump
> butt-loads of salt on the roads.
True, but not as true now that they've switched to other salts besides
NaCl for road salting.

> Cars in S. FL looks great 50 years
> old.

That's a gross exaggeration. Coastal regions, including S. Florida, put
a *lot* of salt into cars and cause a lot of corrosion. Particularly
pre-90s cars.

Anyone know what the GT Maxtour tire is?

A local dealer is trying to encourage me to buy this tire
($489 including all installation charges). But I've never heard
of this tire. It's allegedly a Goodyear brand but info on it is
scarce.

> > Thanks for the links.
> > But they're all so damned EXPENSIVE!
> > Firestone FR721s used to be about $71 apiece.
>
> In what year's dollars?


The FR721 was $71 in P235/75R15 (bigger than my
car needs) and that was only 4 years ago. Maybe $90
I could understand today but not 200.

What happened (trend-wise) that whitewalls are no longer
in style? Years ago practically all cars has whitewall tires.
Now hardly any do. Are people just lazy and they don't want
to clean them? (True: those "tire shine" products do only that;
they don't really CLEAN much of anything, certainly not a
white wall).

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:44:15 -0700 (PDT), The Derfer
> wrote:

>
>Anyone know what the GT Maxtour tire is?
>
>A local dealer is trying to encourage me to buy this tire
>($489 including all installation charges). But I've never heard
>of this tire. It's allegedly a Goodyear brand but info on it is
>scarce.

All tires are required to have a manufacturers code molded/stamped
into the sidewall somewhere. If it's made by Goodyear it will have
the Goodyear code. Google and you should be able to find a list of
codes. It's unlikely you'll find much info on these oddball
"off-branded" tires. Goodyear probably makes that same tire under
many different names for many different independent tire stores. I
have bought these sorts of off-brand tires in the past and never had
any particular problem, some have been quite good.