Fwd: <VV> '60 Corvair (Continued)

[Dave Keillor]

Nope a boot was used to cover holes the size of a half dollar that resulted
from a blow-out.  They were multi-ply affairs shaped to the inside of a
tire.  The pressure in the tube held them in place until they wore through
or blew-out (soon), in which case you did it again.  This was war time and
any rotten old tire with even a little bit of tread was like gold.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Elliott [mailto:Corvair at fnader.com]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:42 PM
To: VirtualVairs at corvair.org; WadeHalsey
Subject: Re: Fwd: <VV> '60 Corvair (Continued)


Do you men a patch applied to the inside of the tire to keep the intertube
from going through the hole in the tire and getting pinched? I always heard
a 
dollar bill was the best, but duct tape works well. Just did this yesterday
on the spare tire on the Auto Union Cross Country (Munga) that just showed
up in 
my drive.

I do use a compressor though! ;-)

Bill

>HallGrenn at aol.com wrote:

>>In a message dated 4/4/2005 9:45:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>>dkeillor at ultrex.com writes:
>>
>>>hen there was the time in 1943 when
>>>I was 4 that we moved from Dallas, TX to Minneapolis, MN.  Two kids, old
>>>car, bald tires filled with boots.  Somewhere in the neighborhood of a
dozen
>>>flat tires fixed by the side of the road.  People today are such wusses.
>>>
>I'm old enough to remember roadside tire repairs and inner tube patches 
>along with pumping up tires with a hand pump. Bet not many remember what 
>a tire boot was though.

>Wade Halsey




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