Guest Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 Any thoughts on wide whitewall radial tires on a 57 roadmaster? Any reasonable suppliers? I am considering putting them on my buick. I like to drive and enjoy the car and do not care if it is not 100% original. My 15 yr old daughter and her friends love riding in the car! I put a 57 olds exterior sun visor on it and mounted the front hub caps to the spindle so they DON'T TURN when driving the car. Talk about people lookihg at you!!!!! DAN BCA #36390 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Teamsterdug Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 There was just recently an ad on the DF under Buick parts for sale. They are however bias ply. See thread #152435. It is probably down a couple of pages by now and dated Feb 27th. They are for 5 8.20X15 w/2 1/2" W.W. His email address= scott@earlmich.com Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryacheson Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 For the best quality and price, go to http://www.widewhitewalltires.com/.I've got two sets and I love em. You can also get them at www.coker.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judd Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Dan Go with the Diamond Back Classics. I like them much better than the Cokers I had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryacheson Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 The Diamond Back tires are good quality tires with the whitewall vulcanized on. I had a set of Coker redlines and I didn't like them. They always looked chalky. I had Diamond Back make a set of 1" ww radials for my '62 Electra and they look and ride nice. I just bought a set of www radials for my '59 Impala. I can't wait to cruise on those. They look good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
our51super Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 I'll add another vote towards Diamondback Classics. They will go as far as getting any tire that you'd like and add the white wall to it. I like Michelins so I asked them if I could ship them a set of Michelins and have them add the white wall. They said they would do one better - they will get the Michelin tires I requested so I would save on shipping. I thought that was pretty nice of them. We've had our tires for about 1.5 years and they white walls look great.Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buicksplus Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 I have had DiamondBacks on my car for several years. My whitewalls have yellowed pretty bad on the edges, even though this car is in the garage most of the time. As others have said, Diamondbacks are glued on whitewalls to a conventional radial. They generally use a cheap no-name radial, roughen up the sidewall, and bond the whitewall. And ask for lots more money than the tires are worth.Next time, I would simply buy blackwall radials locally for far less money and deal with the issue of not having whitewalls on my car. Or perhaps do what 51 Super did and have them fit the whitewalls to a name brand tire.I have also heard the Coker radials are bad news, they delaminate quickly. I think the best option if you must have wide whites is to put good quality bias ply wide whites on there. There are quite a few of these made, and I think the quality is much better.BillAlbuquerque, NM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 Why not just spend $20 on a set of 15x3 Port a Walls?Some people say they dont last more than 6 months or radials, but hey for the money I'd be inclinded to at least try them. Besides, if it doesnt make yer car go faster, its not worth spending money on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 B.F.Goodrich makes a nice wide-white........My brother has a set on his 57 Chevy and they always look nice & white! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 I put Coker wide (2 & 1/2" I think) whites on my 57 Roadmasterand they look great and ride just fine. If you go with Cokerand have Tire Discounters near, you can save some money. My local store has a Coker catalog and ordered them for me. I saved shipping, got a discount and they were mounted and balanced for free. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 Hey Jim, <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />Two quick questions: Did <span style="font-style: italic">Tire Discounters</span> have the same catalog that <span style="font-style: italic">Coker</span> puts out in <span style="font-style: italic">Hemmings</span> (same selection of repro and their own brand tires, same prices, etc.)? I have to get a set for my '60 and also for my TR6 (Coker Commander 185R15 redlines).Also do you happen to know if ALL of their outlets have that capability or is it particular to the one you used? Your end of town's a long ride from Fairfield! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryacheson Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 You can find the Coker price at www.coker.com. I bought a set of redline radials from Coker through Discount Tire in Indianapolis. I'd suggest going to your favorite tire dealer armed with the current Coker price and their discount ad from the Sunday paper and work your best deal. I'd bet it's better than having the tires shipped to you from Coker and then having them mounted and balanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scott mich bca # 6619 Posted March 20, 2003 Share Posted March 20, 2003 Dan,WW radials will work well on your car.I had them on my '53 Roadmaster, '55 Roadmaster and '59 Olds.I changed from radials to bia plys on my '55 Roadmaster for originality and judging reasons.I can sell you a set of my used ones, or I would recommend Coker Tire.They have been in business a long time and stand behind their product.Scott Mich BCA #6619, OCA # 3947 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_scotties1 Posted March 20, 2003 Share Posted March 20, 2003 I had a similiar question for the forum back in December of last year and you may want to follow the replys from that post.I was much encouraged by forum memebers to go with the radials. However after tallking it over with my wife we decided to go with bias ply wide whites.The reason .well, there are two actually..the looks of the wide white and because the car is not a daily driver. If we were to have the car on the road at freeway speeds than radials would have been or choice. As it is the car will be in local shows and in parades and cruisin Rt 66.We purchased our tires from Coker and got the BF Goodrich Silver Towns ( 760 x 15 ) The white wall is the widest we could find .. 3 3/8"....Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Albert Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 You can also check out www.universaltire.com as they are in Hershey Pa. so you migh be able to kill two birds.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">a cheap no-name radial</div></div>My experience is that most of these "no-name radials" you mention are made by the big tire companies. I have Regul Questas on my wagon, at 40k miles they're about half wore out and drive and handle well, and they're a midline tire made by... Uniroyal/Goodrich. The Ninety Eight also has them. Why buy the highest line tires for a car on which they'll dry rot before they wear out, when the lower-priced tire is made by the same company to the same standards?I have Mastercrafts on my 64 Starfire, made by Cooper Tire who have been around for ages. Correct size and whitewall, around $300 for a set of 5.You wanna know which brand of tire I've had more trouble with than any other? <span style="font-weight: bold">GOODYEAR.</span> Between the tire problems and the lousy customer service, I just won't even consider them anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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