Hot Rods HIBOYS -TALL & SKINNY or FAT and WIDE TIRES

i suppose it depends on what era your aiming for, the tall & skinny look great on early style builds where the fat and wide on the rear have a 60's vibe, what say you?

Examples -

Tall & skinny



Fat & wide.

 

Tall and skinny

 

Tall and skinny

 

if youre gonna do wide and fat its gotta be a bias ply.

not a radial

 

Of course, I can appreciate one that’s a little more stout in the rear now and then.

(Double Diamond Firestones!)

 

Tall and skinny for my three fenderless cars.

 

Tall and skinny for me

 

Tall and skinny is the only thing that looks “right” to me.

Welcome back HRP.

CN

 

My deuce highboy roadster has 500/16 front and 700/18 on the rear, tall and short skinny Excelsior's. My deuce highboy sedan has 145/15 Michelin fronts and 285/70/15 BFG's on the rear. A little bit of both.

 

Tall and skinny with Ford wheels,maybe wider tires with certain magnesium wheels.

 

HELL WITH TIRES!!! Just glad to see you're back buddy

Jack

 

Oh god. Another thread for Doug to post those +8 year old pics of his “project”.

 

Tall and skinny! Like I used to be LOL. Welcome back!

 

Tall and skinny most days but…. Barry Lobeck (now Deuce Bruce) roadster anyone? That’s one tough lookin SOB!

 

Skinny fronts, fat rears.

 

Again I say tall and skinny, but…. This is killer

 

This photo always gets a lot of likes, so I haven't seen the need to change to skinnies.


Glad to see you back here, Danny.

 

I'm a tall and skinny fan on hiboys, but also don't really have a valid perspective since I have never owned one...

 

Barrys' first roadster really set the hook for me when planning my build.

 

Are those 6:00x16” with ‘35 wires all around? Thinking of doing that on my ‘32 if I ever get started! Your looks good...

 

Just got some tall and skinnies.

 

I typically like them tall and skinny, but aint nothing wrong with these fat tire'd high boy's

 

You answered your own question in the question. Wheel and tire choice have to be a working part of the whole build theme or they are just flat wrong.
Blues4U has one of the best eyes for what looks right for the theme of a particular hot rod as anyone around. Every car he posted is spot on and stays right on theme. Not one mixed and match and not quite right one in the bunch. The best thing is when he first posted those photos in show coverage you just saw the total car and didn't see one part on the car stand out over the rest of the car except maybe for the Ardun a little bit but an Ardun is an Ardun and so be it. Even that car is 100% on theme.

 

Depends..........Stance Rules!

 

Y not both on the same car, 20 minute swap

 

I’m indecisive. I think Pat Ganahl had the right (albeit expensive) idea. One set of steels with skinny’s and caps. One set of mags and wides. Change the entire vibe of the car in 15 minutes.

 

What BOATMARK said^^^ I like both. But a pair of old dirt track tires on ET-III's or Halibrands suits me. Yeah it's 60's for sure.

 

Are some of these wider than what was offered in 1965?

I'm all for tall and skinnies and not quite so tall and skinnies.
Appropriate to the time frame.