What were OEM tires? Photos of any?

[Pat Marshall]

Ward,

When you can, you can thank me with the VIN. Good luck on your bidding!

Pat

[5219]

My car had what I believe was the original spare. It is a Firestone "Supreme" with a three inch whitewall. The tire, by the way, is a four ply nylon 8.20 X 15.

Mine is an a/c car built in February 1956.

I have never seen another tire marked Firestone Supreme.


Alan Harris
C56D2744

[wkarson]

Hi Alan, does this look familiar to your spare? It's earlier (1952), but is it a close facsimile?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007IWAXSW

Thank you,

-Ward

[5219]

That sure looks like it!

Alan Harris
C56D2744

[Ralf Nygard]

My car had also a Firestone spare tyre 800-15. It was a
puncture safe tyre which was new to me.I don`t know how
well they worked but I understand it as first there were pressure
on both sides of the half innertyre.When you got a puncture the
air swooshed away from outside of the innertyre which made
the pressure difference close the rubber valve of the innertyre.
So it left some air in the tyre but how much?
The tyre is thrown away so I don`t know if it was a Supreme
but I had to save the inner tyre.

[Don Henschel]

As for the width of the whitewall, at the time I purchased my Firestone Delux Champions the choice of whitewall width was limited. Luckily mine fell within the earlier date and the wider one within the ballpark was available. The narrower one was not. I'm not sure what is available now and was concidering purchasing a 5th one for the spare and having a just in case replacement.

[Ricks]

I have an original, never used, 1957-correct 8.20 2 3/8" Firestone Deluxe Champion "Gum-Dipped" sitting in my inner office. It's my dad's, but if anyone could put it to use (1 tire isn't much good without at least 3 more), I can ask him if he'd be willing to part with it...