Re: [Chrysler300] re tires, etc for 300 cars

[Bill Huff <czbill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Amen!   If you want to show, you can have a 
separate set of proper white wall tires, wheels 
and hub caps, but on the road run the best you 
can afford.  Nothing worse than trying to stay 
short of a modern vehicle making a panic stop 
ahead of you.  Tires and brakes are supreme.Try 
following at a greater distance and there is 
always some jerk pulling in ahead of you with about 5' of clearance.

Bill Huff

At 11/18/201108:53 PM, you wrote:
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>I've been reading this tread re tires, etc for 
>our chrysler 300 letter cars. I find it rather 
>weird that some members that although their 
>collectors cars are now worth rather big bucks 
>compared to when they acquired them years ago, 
>they are not willing to spend the appropriate 
>amount of $'s to make sure that they are as road 
>worthy as possible. As far as I'm concerned, 
>safety really comes into play with all this. My 
>opinion on choice of tires is to get what is the 
>best tire to do the job and forgot this nonsense 
>as to whether is has wide white wall or narrow 
>sidewall. When I had my 65 300L ht restored 
>about 15 years ago, I was not able to find 
>proper 14 inch tires for it plus the 
>availability of factory hub caps was next to 
>nil(the factory ones are not really nice looking 
>to start with) plus the price for really nice 
>ones was prohibitive so I converted to 15 inch 
>wheels using the magnum 500's with the spinner 
>options. Most people on the street will not 
>remember as to whether these cars had wide 
>whitewalls tires, etc so why are we wasting lost 
>of money in trying to make to 100 % factory. Now 
>let's remember that this is a hobby so let's 
>quit worrying about using crappy bias ply tires 
>as what these came with from the factory. I will 
>always make sure that I have excellent tires, 
>brakes and suspension on any of my vehicles. One 
>cannot put a price on safety. I hope that I 
>haven't offended any of you purists but this is 
>my two cents worth. Cheers from Fern with 300H 
>convertible and 300L ht and still to restore 300L 4 speed conv.
>
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