What's your favourite old school tyre from the past
Discussion
When Doug Mclure was still on that island with dinosaurs and your tyres had a tread pattern that was designed on a ZX Spectrum and the chemical compound was something starting with R for rubber and ending in u, also for rubber. The ubber bit.
Here's mine ... The Yokohama A520. Such an epic tyre. Just built by some crazy Japs for circuit use, massive massive grip on a warm to hot dry day and absolutely no grip at all anywhere else. Forget all that and look at that sexy tread pattern though,
The great thing about the A520 was that those funky diagonal slashes actually wore away more than any other tread. Magic? Yes, programmed in to give you a track day tyre within one year of buying them. 20 years back! How cool is that. You ended up with extra large outer blocks for the cost of a remould Pirelli P6 for no extra cost.
Such fantastic tyres. They were funky, they were grippy, they were also terrible and spanked you hard if you dared drive them in sub optimum conditions.
Apparently there is a video of Donald Trump claiming he drove a Mk2 MR2 turbo on snow with them.
Even more ridiculously they got fitted to the Brabus Smart
http://www.y-yokohama.com/release/?id=1379&lan...
Really really short wheelbase, really extreme tyre, hmmm, yes please.
What's your favourite old tyre?
Here's mine ... The Yokohama A520. Such an epic tyre. Just built by some crazy Japs for circuit use, massive massive grip on a warm to hot dry day and absolutely no grip at all anywhere else. Forget all that and look at that sexy tread pattern though,
The great thing about the A520 was that those funky diagonal slashes actually wore away more than any other tread. Magic? Yes, programmed in to give you a track day tyre within one year of buying them. 20 years back! How cool is that. You ended up with extra large outer blocks for the cost of a remould Pirelli P6 for no extra cost.
Such fantastic tyres. They were funky, they were grippy, they were also terrible and spanked you hard if you dared drive them in sub optimum conditions.
Apparently there is a video of Donald Trump claiming he drove a Mk2 MR2 turbo on snow with them.
Even more ridiculously they got fitted to the Brabus Smart
http://www.y-yokohama.com/release/?id=1379&lan...
Really really short wheelbase, really extreme tyre, hmmm, yes please.
What's your favourite old tyre?
Edited by Gandahar on Friday 13th January 23:23
Mound Dawg said:
Gandahar said:
Apparently there is a video of Donald Trump claiming he drove a Mk2 MR2 turbo on snow with them.
And of course The Donald was telling the truth. He always does.Anyhow, a bit disappointed, those aren't really old school are they? I was expecting the General Grabber or Kelly Charger to get a name check when I saw the thread title.
I've got underpants that pre-date those Yokos.
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