<VV>Tirez (overlapping Corvair)

[Frank DuVal]

Memory very bad, but wasn't the TRX tire the one with the non inch wheel 
diameter, like 390 cm? Also used on Peugeot 505 series cars. There was 
no cheap inch (14, 15, etc) replacement without buying new wheels. 1984 
is the year for Mustangs and 505's that I hazilly recall.

Frank DuVal

Padgett wrote:

>
> I'm not so sure that the letter series tires were only
>
>> bias-belted designs.  I had at least three sets by different
>> manufacturers (Atlas, Dunlop, and Goodrich) that were advertised (and
>> marked) as radials.
>
>
> My 78 Sunbird came with BR70/13 Firestone 500s, (the first to have 
> major problems with separation) but all such had the "R" added, a 
> plain letter G70x14 (70 Tempest) was Bias-Belted. Don't think that any 
> letter tires were old style unbelted
>
> The next change was to the P-metric and going out on a bit of a limb 
> seem to recall that was an extension of the GM "TPC".  A brief 
> abberation was the Ford (later also used by SAAB) TRX tire in the 
> mid-70s-early 80s. All designations have overlapped for a while and 
> changes in tires have never been sudden.
>
> Padgett
>
> Another slender branch is a memory that the first domestic car to make 
> radials standard was the Lincoln Continental around 1970-72
>
>
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