[DeTomaso] 15in. tires-the options again...and again...

Asa Jay Laughton asajay at asajay.com
Wed Jan 14 23:30:47 EST 2009


Pardon me, I've not been able to freakin' type all damn day.

NOW happening to 16 inch rubber.
CONJURE up a THOUGHT

Asa Jay
<maybe I should start using a Dvorak keyboard>

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
    
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Asa Jay Laughton wrote:
> I was in a repair shop today, much to my delight, having an alternator 
> replaced on my everyday driver, on the way to work.  A bit unexpected 
> you might say.
>
> While there I asked a simple opinion.  What do you think the chances 
> are, of seeing 15 inch rubber again in the next 10 years?
>
> Not a freakin' chance.  Well, he put it a bit more politically correct, 
> explaining that what 15 inch rubber started to experience 10 years ago 
> is not happening to 16 inch rubber, it's getting really hard to find.  
> Most new cars, even the smaller cars, econo-boxes and rice-racers, are 
> coming with 17 inch wheels if not larger, as stock.  There does not seem 
> to be a reversal in this trend.  He said he couldn't concur up a though 
> of anything using a 15 inch wheel from the factory anymore, maybe some 
> off-the-wall-econo-crap-box, but nothing mainstream.  His opinion was 
> that 15 inch is antiquated in anything go-fast at all, and 16 is on the 
> way out.
>
> Having looked for tires myself in the last six months, and using up some 
> 40 hours of my personal time to do it, I agree.  I found it hard to find 
> appropriate rubber in 16 inch size much less 15.  Oh you can still get 
> it, but it's getting scarce and will cost you.
>
> <sigh>
>
> Asa Jay
> <saving for a set of Wilkinson wheels.>
>
> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
>
> & Shelley Marie
> Spokane, WA
>
> 1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
> 1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
>     
> ******************************     
> http://www.asajay.com
> http://www.351c.info
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