What's your favourite old school tyre from the past
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aeropilot said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Meanwhile, Ford were still putting crossplies on Mk2 Escorts in the mid 70s...
Pretty sure they weren't?I seem to recall that by the last year or so of Mk1 Escort production, radials were standard on even the base 1100 model?
paulwirral said:
Michelin xzx I think it was called , great in the dry summer months and drove me up the steepest snow covered hills in my youth . I remember driving past my cousin on full lock up claypath in Durham city and speaking to him out if the window at a walking pace , it never crossed either of our minds I wouldn't make it but nor did he for a moment consider asking me to stop and give him a lift . 175 - 70 - 13s on a mark 3 2.0ltr cortina , 4 forward gears ffs
My uncle loved hearing and always had them on his Escort. He was delighted when our new Chrysler Horizon came with them.TooMany2cvs said:
aeropilot said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Meanwhile, Ford were still putting crossplies on Mk2 Escorts in the mid 70s...
Pretty sure they weren't?I seem to recall that by the last year or so of Mk1 Escort production, radials were standard on even the base 1100 model?
TooMany2cvs said:
Jaguar steve said:
The original Pirelli Cinturato and the first Michelin X from the 60's and 70's.
A chunk earlier than that - the Mich X hit the market in 1949, and Mich stopped all crossply production in 1956. By 1965, Mich were making assymetric radials.Meanwhile, Ford were still putting crossplies on Mk2 Escorts in the mid 70s...
The Mitch X must have been on the market a lot longer than I though then.They were the factory fit on nearly all new Renaults around the 1970s and lasted forever. I remember scrapping early 16s, 5s and 12s still on the original tyres.
The earliest Mk 1 Escorts might have had crossplys from the factory but I'm not sure any later ones did.
Certainly putting them on a Mexico
Twin Cam , or RS 1600 or 2000 Mk 1 was probably a very bad idea indeed... Jaguar steve said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Jaguar steve said:
The original Pirelli Cinturato and the first Michelin X from the 60's and 70's.
A chunk earlier than that - the Mich X hit the market in 1949, and Mich stopped all crossply production in 1956. By 1965, Mich were making assymetric radials.Meanwhile, Ford were still putting crossplies on Mk2 Escorts in the mid 70s...
The Mitch X must have been on the market a lot longer than I though then.They were the factory fit on nearly all new Renaults around the 1970s and lasted forever. I remember scrapping early 16s, 5s and 12s still on the original tyres.
The earliest Mk 1 Escorts might have had crossplys from the factory but I'm not sure any later ones did.
Certainly putting them on a Mexico
Twin Cam , or RS 1600 or 2000 Mk 1 was probably a very bad idea indeed... I think the early 68-71 era base model 1100 Escorts still had cross-plies as standard as you say, as did the base model 1300 engine Mk2 Cortina's of the late 60's.
Mk2 Cortina GT, 1600E and Lotus had radials though.
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