I just watched part of a show yesterday in which they featured Jay
Leno's Olds Toronado, looked to be circa 1966 (it was a tan / light
brown colour if that's any clue).

Anyway, the tires were red stripe tires although they appearered to be
the original size for that car, which IIRC would be the equivelant to
235-75-15's.

I would like to find some red stripe tires that size for my truck but
not having much luck finding anything as such.

Anyone know of a company, link, etc?

I would think this style of tire would still have sufficient demand
for them to be more available -- and in more sizes.
Thanks in advance.

In article <18919-463BFA22-72@storefull-3276.bay.webtv.net>, whaler22
@webtv.net says...
> I just watched part of a show yesterday in which they featured Jay
> Leno's Olds Toronado, looked to be circa 1966 (it was a tan / light
> brown colour if that's any clue).
>
> Anyway, the tires were red stripe tires although they appearered to be
> the original size for that car, which IIRC would be the equivelant to
> 235-75-15's.
>
> I would like to find some red stripe tires that size for my truck but
> not having much luck finding anything as such.
>
> Anyone know of a company, link, etc?
>
> I would think this style of tire would still have sufficient demand
> for them to be more available -- and in more sizes.
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

Maybe something here?

http://www.kelseytire.com/collectorw.htm
http://www.kelseytire.com/pages/preformancetires.html

Dale R wrote:

>
> Anyone know of a company, link, etc?
>
> I would think this style of tire would still have sufficient demand
> for them to be more available -- and in more sizes.
> Thanks in advance.
>

About the only place to find them is from companies which specialize in
reproduction tires for old cars. Expect to pay a stiff price for tires
which often are not exactly of the most modern design and manufacturing.

Some of the larger vendors:

http://cokertire.com/

http://www.lucasclassictires.com/

http://www.universaltire.com/

John wrote;, "About the only place to find them is from companies which
specialize in reproduction tires for old cars. Expect to pay a stiff
price for tires which often are not exactly of the most modern design
and manufacturing."
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Thanks, John, I suppose you're probably right about the dinosaur
technology and quality of these tires.

It still seems to me that if, say, Goodyear or some major manufacturer
would come out with a line of red stripe tires they'd be at least
popular enough to support their tooling up to produce them. Look at
the myriad of other designs -- tread patterns, sidewall lettering, etc.
-- there's a zillion of them! And they're constantly changing them.
I'd be surprised to find anyone who thinks the red stripe look is
'uncool.'

I worked part time selling at a tire shop a couple years ago and could
have _swore_ I saw, in a catalogue there, a model of red stripe made by
BFG -- with modern tread design, similar to the Radial T/A.

But this ws before I was interested in buying any so I didn't really
pay much attention at the time.

"Dale R" <whaler22@webtv.net> wrote in message
> I'd be surprised to find anyone who thinks the red stripe look is
> 'uncool.'

Surprise ! ! !

Edwin Pawlowski wrote, "Surprise ! ! ! "
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Damn! I _hate_ surprises! ;-)
But yeah, I must be wrong about the popularity of red stripes,
otherwise someone would sure as hell be manufacturing modern tires with
them.
I guess there are a lot of sidewall lettering fonts and designs I
wouldn't buy either, for that matter.

"Dale R" <whaler22@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:18919-463BFA22-72@storefull-3276.bay.webtv.net...
> I just watched part of a show yesterday in which they featured Jay
> Leno's Olds Toronado, looked to be circa 1966 (it was a tan / light
> brown colour if that's any clue).
>
> Anyway, the tires were red stripe tires although they appearered to be
> the original size for that car, which IIRC would be the equivelant to
> 235-75-15's.
>
> I would like to find some red stripe tires that size for my truck but
> not having much luck finding anything as such.
>
> Anyone know of a company, link, etc?
>
> I would think this style of tire would still have sufficient demand
> for them to be more available -- and in more sizes.
> Thanks in advance.

I bought a set of 4 for my 1970 Chevy Impala....They were sold
at Esso dealers, "Tiger in your Tank" They were made by Atlas
Tire...The Round Tire" ...Worse tire I have ever bought!>

On Fri, 4 May 2007 22:29:38 -0500, whaler22@webtv.net (Dale R) wrote:

> I just watched part of a show yesterday in which they featured Jay
>Leno's Olds Toronado, looked to be circa 1966 (it was a tan / light
>brown colour if that's any clue).
>
> Anyway, the tires were red stripe tires although they appearered to be
>the original size for that car, which IIRC would be the equivelant to
>235-75-15's.
>
> I would like to find some red stripe tires that size for my truck but
>not having much luck finding anything as such.
>
> Anyone know of a company, link, etc?
>
> I would think this style of tire would still have sufficient demand
>for them to be more available -- and in more sizes.
> Thanks in advance.


The time frame would be about right. I had red stripe "wide oval"
tires on a Mustang I had in '67 & '68. This was just before radials,
with tubes no less, started to become available.