White Wall tyres

[drivin_me_nuts]

EDLT said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

... without running the risk of diverting this threas - how easy is it to get white wall tyres in the UK?

They are only a google away.

http://www.northhantstyres.com/

£181 each though

http://www.northhantstyres.com/main%20tyre%20pages...

Edited by EDLT on Monday 27th July 00:42

thanks

<smacksheadinoneofthoseyou'readipstickmoments>

[SystemParanoia]

you can make them for much cheaper though.

all you have to do is get a tyre that has white lettering, then break out the angle grinder.

lots of vids on youtube

[MadmanO/T People]

I think this PT Cruiser pulls off the look rather well......




Cheers,
Madman of the People

[Utterpiffle]

A friend of mine has recently started a company that specialises in adding white/red walls to any tyre

http://www.mrwhitewalls.com/

A few examples of his work:

[crofty1984]

I think a lot of whitewalls you see are actually a whitewall trim over normal tyres.
ETA That Mr whitewalls stuff looks interesting. Especially redwalls...

Edited by crofty1984 on Monday 27th July 10:36

[Mr Gear]

crofty1984 said:

I think a lot of whitewalls you see are actually a whitewall trim over normal tyres.

Correct. You can see it in this pic of a very sweet P1800. I want this car so bad even though the tyre trim is hanging off:



I think whitewalls look good on all sorts of cars, even 80's box-mobiles.

[Duesey]

Click on my name - as I am not sure how to post my picture.

You could call it classic Yank.

Claire

[monthefish]

Some cars can pull it of....




































This isn't one of them

Edited by monthefish on Monday 27th July 13:12

[sleep envy]

vpr said:

Love a whitewall tyre on a Classic.

For me an E Type S3 is lost withouit them.

These tyres have not been produced over 30 years but my car still wears them and no cracking....yet. Good job I don't drive it then.

lovely car but the tyres must be hard as concrete by now

[SystemParanoia]

Evo on white walls ( excuse the "arty" photos )

[Gompo]

Blimey, that Evo looks horrid.

[mitch78]

Strangely, I quite like the look of the Evo.

[NeutralFanboy]

Yum

[NeutralFanboy]

W00DY said:

I think they look great on aircooled VWs. Anything modern they look st.

Does anyone know where you can get those arches? I think I saw that beetle for sale on carandclassic.co.uk a couple of months ago. I really wanted it

[Westy Pre-Lit]

Oh go on here's mine

[aeropilot]

Gompo said:

Blimey, that Evo looks horrid.

Indeed.
Hot Rod culture belongs on Hot Rods not things like Evo's. It looks bloody ridiculous

[Olf]

Dad used to use white gloss to make bald tyres look like new on his TR in the 60's

[daninsidious]

NeutralFanboy said:

Yum

Man do I love these things!!!....