Hola Chris
I just sent you the scanned pages from an 1962 Dealers Brochure to peek at
the single white stripe on that year of Imperial.
If any other of you would like the same scan's, please email me directly (
not on this site's time please ).
Rodger & Gabby
COS
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 9:09 AM
Subject: RE: IML: Original Equipment
Tires on '62 Imperials
Correct me if I'm wrong folks,
but the double thin white wall tires were the fashion statement for the
late 60's.
Chris Middlebrook
1962 Custom
Southampton
--- On Thu 06/21, Joe Strickland < jwstrick426@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
From:
Joe Strickland [mailto: jwstrick426@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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Date:
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:25:22 -0500
Subject: IML: Original
Equiipment Tires on '62 Imperials
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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