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fake white walls.....HELP
hi, while looking for white walls the other day for my 67, a local tire guy said that there are some kind of rings that fit between the rim and tire that make it look like you have white walls. he said that they were really popular in the 60s. they used to call the "spats" does anybody have some? are they worth the money? how much are they? just some info would be great...thanks
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![]() Edit: I just remembered, someone had a "how to" video on how to make your own white walls by using a sanding disc on the black wall, it made a mess but it worked awesome, from the video.
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
Hey Houp......i have seen the (MADE) whitewalls up close..And the way its done today is not like the way it was done years ago......I do not think you would be happy with the way they are done these days........Years ago......Their use to be shops that would (cut them down) almost like running them on a lathe......<that technique always looked good IMO....But the way they are sanded now......I dont think would fit the style and cleanliness your truck has...
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
Portawalls are designed for bias ply tires not for radials. Corky Coker no longer deals with them due to the large number of people that have been dissatisfied with em.
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Yep see ten is right. Lucas Tire says that and the fact thatb need to run tubes on their site.
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
speedway automotive has them, not sure if they are the same thing as corker had or not.
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I had them on my 1940 Pontiac Coupe "Sugar Plum", in 1958.... ![]() I guess you could say I've been into the cars & trucks for a few years.... LockDoc
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
For my birthday, in '64, I asked for a set of "Double Eagle" portawalls for my '54 Ford. When I got 'em, I went to a local station that had an outdoor, drive-on lift. Breaking them down was done without any air tools....manual bead breaker, etc. Put them on, it looked good (bias ply recap tires) and I was a happy high school senior!
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Thanks Mike... I think...
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
I think I seen someone sanding down the side of the tire to get the white wall look it was on you tube or another website. It looked dangerous sanding up that tire like they did.
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
Mooneyes has them. Again not for radials though. mooneyesusa.com
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
Back in the day, when a car wasn't dressed if it didn't have whitewalls, there were people who made a living going to car lots and "creating" whitewalls. Originally, they were painted onto the tires, and later the process evolved into actually cutting the outer surface to reveal the white rubber that may have formerly been a white lettered tire.
Didja know that there is alumina (refined bauxite) in the white rubber compound? Where I was employed, we had several rubber company customers who bought a specific product that went into the making of the white rubber. Titanium dioxide is another chemical compound that helps to create the white rubber.
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
Actually the first tires wire all white being the color of natural rubber they did not know how to make a black one
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
There's a member on here who just painted his whitewalls on. The guy who lowered his C-20. They looked pretty good in the photos.
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
...can you still buy bias tires?? where? how much?
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its all about the +6 inches
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
I saw 3/4 ton truck (LT) tires at sears about 8 years ago... they were 16.5 tall by skinny booooooooring tires though.
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8 years ago?.....those are probably dry rotted by now!
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
I've had port-a-walls on several cars/trucks (on radials).
Now granted, they aren't a 10yr solution, but for a cheap fix for a cruise season, they're fine. And on my 59 chevy wagon with a EFI350/4L60, they stayed put at 90mph regularly. I just recently had them on a 62 short fleet. It's all in the install. And trust me. I've bought, maybe, 10-12 sets of $700 radial wide whitewalls from Coker and Diamondback in the past 10 yrs. Shhhh, I have a bad habit of trading/selling cars....haha But being laid-off now, I gotta go ghetto style. So they do me fine.
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
around how long do they noramaly last you on the radials? o and BTW, AWESOME wagon. i love station wagons.
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Re: fake white walls.....HELP
Here's a link to that lowered C-20 with the painted whitewalls.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=286975&page=2
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