Bruce (VA)
Well-known Member
I drove a 47 Chevy in high school (1964-67) and never bought tires for it. The neighborhood gas station let us go through the trash tire pile & take whatever we wanted. At some point, I put 6-lug 15 inch rims on the car because free 15 inch tires were easier to find than the OEM 16 inch tires. So the 16 inch rims w/ the tires still on them got tossed in the back of the barn....sometime before December, 1967 because that's when I totaled the car. And one of those tires & rim has followed me around all of these years. It now rests beside the chopping block by the pole barn. Notice the total absence of tread as well as the fabric showing. That was when we got around to changing tires back then: when you could see the fabric.