What's your favourite old school tyre from the past
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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
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.
MJK 24 said:
Goodyear Eagle NCT2.
I was just going to add that. I met the lead developer of that tyre about 5 years ago. He was thrilled to hear that it is remembered as a great tyre. I did tell him the steering was only average though, couldn't let his head get too big! This tyre gave a giant jump in wet road grip and predictability, the limit was just so broad and friendly.Escort3500 said:
Hey, good call!What was it that you really liked about this tyre in your opinion? Was it the terrific dry road grip (but awful in the wet), or the fact that tread wear seemed a thing of the past?
How do you remember that tyre in comparison with the modern stuff?
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
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