Technical Old style mud grips for late HAMB era trucks

Time to order tires. I remember a lot of 2wd trucks had mud grips on the rear. I'm thinking about going that route with Coker L 78 street tires on the front and L 78 Super traxions on the back.
I have all terrains on my off topic truck. Before that..street tires. It sucks getting stuck on wet grass.
The vehicle, 1965 F100
Thanks

 

Hi. We all ran bias ply tires in the fifties thru mid sixties at least. I did not have radials until well into the seventies on anything. I have not checked out the Coker mud grips but I wonder if they are similar to the town & countries? I run Coker Classic bias look alike radials now on my 46 coupe - 600/R16 front and 700/R16 rears and they balanced with just one small weight per tire and run great for me and I am putting a bunch of miles on the coupe now as my daily driver since I installed the Vintage Air.
With that said back in the late fifties thru the sixties & some into the seventies I ran the Firestone town & country mud/snow tires on several of my rides that I either took off road or to the drag strip or racing red light to red light. For those racing tires they were street legal slicks for me. They had the soft rubber compound and did not do a lot of burnout. Great traction on the asphalt for racing.
About the time I quit running them on anything except trucks I converted to the Firestone 500 for my cars which I recall was a belted bias ply????? Been a long time on that. I had great dependability and life on both of these types.
Jimmie

 

Trying to remember any hot rodder or custom owner who ran snow tires all year .... can't come up with any.

 

The super traxion is identical to the old Firestone Town and Country.

In the South many roads were still dirt in the 50s and 60s (even today it's not too hard to find a dirt road). Both cars and trucks would run mud grips on the back. Back when the old junkyards were still around it was not uncommon to find a 40s or 50s car with mud treads on the back tire.

 

BRO, we need PICTURES OF THE TRUCK!

 

F-One, Man you and I both are in Alabama, we know what dirt roads are. Now with that said a lot of the folks on the HAMB don't really know about that, at least not in this modern age. I mean you do realize there is a Interstate System today? I live so far out in the country it takes me at least an hour and a half just to get to the interstate. Most of these fellers don't have that problem. Even with that I had to vote "NO" on your tire idea, they just don't look right on a Hot Rod.

 

King Ford,
All I have right now is shop photos. My 16 year old took photos of when we got the truck before we scrubbed the oxidized Paint and rust stains off of it. He also took photos of when we had one side shined up to show how good it cleaned up. I asked him to Email me those pics.....Well, he forgot. Imagine that! Now they are lost.
The Shop photos are in the Bears 65 F100 thread.

 

Hombre I'm about 45 minutes to the SE of you.
Yeah....I got a little nostalgic. I grew up Coon hunting in a 64 F100 step-side.....flareside for the Ford terminology nuts. Man that old truck would go. 223 singing as it bounced from rut to rut. That was a treat laying in the bed listening to the dogs run. I guess that world is lost forever.

 

Would not bother me a bit to run those on the back of a pickup, as long as it was not lowered, louvered and such. Many people did so where I grew up. Not everyone built their rides to SoCal specs, especially in SE Ohio.

 

And this has what to do with traditional style hot rods????

 

I own a 1965 Ford custom cab pickup and live in the South and don't think I would use those tires on my truck,running tires like that is for 4x4 guys that don't mind all the noise (singing) those tires make. HRP

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I would run them. I dislike driving 4x4 trucks. I usually drive 2wd trucks. Even today I run snow tires all year round. You are correct, you don't get stuck on wet grass. As long as your truck isn't a super slick custom or drag machine, run them

 

wouldnt there be something in the suv range that would do? I have a pattern like this on the back, little noise and good traction, I do have a lsd rear too though

 

#5 and I do believe the panel way back there...




Granted...this is not something you think of being on a hot-rod. But never say never. There are different regions, heck even cultures ect ect.
Truthfully I may go all street tires for this truck but in my opinion it's not that far fetched to go with grips on the back.

 

[QUOTE="F-ONE, .............................
Truthfully I may go all street tires for this truck but in my opinion it's not that far fetched to go with grips on the back.[/QUOTE]
winter tread whitewalls? were these common? never seen those down here........

 

I'm on the other side of the state from you, about 35 miles north of Tuscaloosa, and we still have plenty of dirt roads in the county. They used to be great for weekend beer drinking and riding with your buds, but not so much now, the dope heads have taken over the best out of the way sites and made it dangerous to go around them anymore.

As to running ground grips on a truck, I'd say what look and what use are you going for? If it's a working truck, I don't see a problem with them. My experience though is that they will get you stuck faster in soft mud or sand since they dig so well. My OT pickup is 4WD, I won't have another 2WD pickup to use as a truck. I run the all terrain type tires on it to cut down on the noise. If you're mostly on paved or hard packed dirt, the ground grips would be OK for slippery conditions if you like the roar they put out. All the old farmers had a beater old truck with them on them to go out in the pastures and fields, but most of them, trucks and old farmers, are gone now......

 

Back in the Day you hardly ever seen a truck that didn't have mud grip tires on the back. My dad always ran Coop Grip Spur's on his trucks.

 

Oregon has snow tire's......just happen to have this one in stock.......
And if you decide to take the olé gal to the city, the truck or your wife/girl friend , then I can set you up with our big city classic option........, I've herd the flip flop white walls work good on swamp buggy trucks....they act as paddles like on a stern wheeler when they flair out....just saying..

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LOL we call the snow tires in the north and they call them "grips" in the south.
Not my thing except in the winter but you would have an authentic 50's 60's and probably 70's southern country boy's pickup.
I remember opening the trunk of my 69 Olds Cutlass in January of 69 at a gas station in Texas and having the attendant ask me "what chu doing with those grips" when he saw the mounted studded snow tires I had in the trunk. One of my home town buddies that I started first grade with hauled them home a couple of weeks later and used them on his 69 GTO to get home. I think they ended p on my Moms car until they were worn out.

 

No I wouldn't run them... doesn't mean I can't use them for mock up tires.. and doesn't mean they didn't stick some on there occasionally

 

That #15 car is from my wife's home town Tim. I'll have to share that photo with my sister in law who teaches there.

 

Tim that's a nice sedan.

 

Thanks man, it's a work in progress

 

OMG! Southern States Co-op Grip Spurs! A set of those on a "round taillight" all wheel drive International Scout. IMPOSSIBLE to get hung up in any terrain!
On the hard road, you could hear a pair or a set of those tires coming 15 min before you actually saw them! Talk about "tire sing"!
Those Grip Spurs were as obnoxious as a forest fire!
Bald snow tires made decent slicks back in the day.

 

Check out Power King tires. They have a nice looking mud grips also.

 

Why not try something different? They're just tires and can be easily swapped. How about some bandag gripper treads on a whitewall casing? I say try it out.


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Remember, just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

 

this in may avator rear end and tire I run all year round, don't think i'd call it a hotrod. but I live the tire on rear. I don't use on front.

 

My son made the decision. He wanted mud grips on the back. "Daddy, look where we live. We live in the country."
So now we have 2 15 L78 black wall Cokers for the front and 2 L7815 Super Traxions for the rear. All are frshly mounted on black Ford steel wheels.