Is this an original tire? Pics...

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 78 Big10 454

I've had my 78 since new. It came equipped with G78-15B blackwall Firestones. They lasted all of about 10,000 miles....

Uniroyals weren't much better!

(lol)

They would wear funny; they weren't particularly "round" or easy to balance.

For development work - we used to "shave" the tires and do "radial force vector" measurements to try to get a really smooth set of tires

- or -

I would usually keep a set of comparable Michelins, which were better than that right out of the box.

K