IML: Original Equiipment Tires on '62 Imperials

[Joe Strickland <jwstrick426@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone know what brand and line of original equipment tires were 
used on '62 Imperials?  I am curious, because my '62 has a really old 
spare tire in it with the double white wall stripes on it.  I would not 
dare to put this on the car if I had a flat.  It needs to be replaced, 
but I thought about the visual effect of these thinner whitewall style 
tires of that year.  There are still slim whitewall tires available from 
several manufacturers that could be used on the car to restore the 
original appearance.  Some are even radial tires.

The '62 sales brochure I have shows slim single stripe whitewall tires 
on the illustrated models.  The car actually has wide whitewall tires on 
it now due to emergency replacements that were needed when I took a 300 
mile trip with the car in the late 1980s.  It turned out that the tires 
that were on the car had become so deteriorated that the tread started 
separating from the body of the tires.  Vibration at speed was the 
indication noticed.  I made the last 50 miles of the trip at speeds of 
about 30 mph.  The next day I had a local tire shop replace all four 
tires.  I did not touch the spare at the time.

Happy motoring!

Joe S.


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