When was the last time you bought a set of white wall tires??
I'm not referring to one of you car collector types that put a set of white walls on your 50s sweet ride last week to make it period correct!
I'm talking about back in the day, when white walls were often the norm.
I actually remember the last pair of white walls I bought. I replaced the front tires. The tire place had the correct size in stock but they were white walls. Since I didn't have white walls on the back I told them to mount the white wall on the inside. This would have been 1966 + or - a year or two. So I guess I was the only one who knew I was driving down the road with my last set of white walls! 😁
I wonder what my Corolla would look like with white walls??? Especially a set of them there WIDE white walls? 😋😎😋
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I had white walls on my 1965 Ford Falcon. I remember using powdered Tide laundry detergent to scrub the white walls clean. I sold that car in 1979 and that was the last of the white walls for me.
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in the 70's for me. today i still have white letters on the inside
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I had whitewalls on my 2007 Harley. The were a bear to keep clean. Replaced them with black walls.
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just yesterday i bought my daughter a new set for her beach cruiser bicycle.
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Can't remember EVER having whitewalls on a car.
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Some 1993-94 Chevrolet Caprice's came out with white walls the narrow ones and they looked good on these cars. They were available for approx 5 years if requested.
If you were noticing the looks of the Caprice with the narrow white walls then later seen the car with black walls the car looked like a Mennonite's FARM tractor or their stock trailer.
Actually the muddy, rusty tractors and stock trailers with cow dung stuck to the sides looked better.
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Went through too many SOS pads in 1950's glad to see them go.A thin strip of white looks good with some vehicles on Classic cars however. But the broad white ones,good riddance!
serf
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Some had a blue protector on them that whitewall cleaner was used to remove.
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"Some had a blue protector on them that whitewall cleaner was used to remove."
I remember that coating and the last white walls I remember buying were put on a 67 Mustang in the 70's with the Blue coated whitewalls turned to the inside on the front and the wider raised white letter tires on the outside of the rear.
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Probably 1963 on my Pontiac conv't. Anyone remember the Firestone (back when corporate spoke English) 500's that also had a very thin gold line just outside of the narrow whitewall?
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I'm a youngster, born in 69.......................so, never.
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I remember telling the tire shops white walls in please early on in my car ownership then a bit later it was white letters out on my cars /trucks to be one of the. Cool guys
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A few red lines but no white walls
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1960 (for a '58 Plymouth).
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Probably about 1964-65 for a 1960 Chevy Impala.
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Late 80's to go on a 1956 Mercury Monterey Phaeton 4 door . Car was my grandfathers ,used it to drive my brothrt from the church the day he got married
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I remember the “Mickey Mouse whitewalls”. They were an add-on that fit between the tire bead and the rim and laid flat against the tire.
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We bought my wife's aunt's '78 Chrysler Cordoba from her in 1991. She could have been that little old lady from Pasadena who only used her car to get to church on Sundays, but she was from Detroit. The car which was equipped with genuine "Corinthian Leather" as well as white wall tires.
Back in the early 70's I remember most tires came with white walls but many chose to flip them to the black side. Radial's were the new in thing back then as well.
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1980 I put white walls on my Gran Torino which had Cragar mag wheels. People would laugh at me. At the time I thought I have white walls so I should show them but looking back it was stupid looking.
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My dad had Hercules white walls on his 84 F150 for years.
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Always they just turn em inside out
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Brookwood, the Little Old Lady From Pasadena was busy "shutting down" all the young punks who thought they had hot cars! 😁
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