Technical Cheater Slicks?

"]Damnit Man!!! How many Bad Ass ride's do you have???

I have had a bunch of Bitchin Hot Rods, But try to keep them one at a time

 

Around here the only thing cops care about on tires is if they have a DOT rating on the sidewall. I have Towel City slicks on both of my hotrods, and never had an issue.

 

I have a pair of those Radir, stick like glue... no prep. DOT

 

Hey was wondering about the back wheels. I just bought some Firestone slicks 16s at the local swap meet. What wheels are you using size brand?

 

I would only run them on special occasions IN DRY WEATHER!! I have been endo too many times, even with conventional tires. I run these light truck tires on a daily basis. They have a conventional 'good' tread pattern. However on the back of my light Willys, they get sketchy some times. I was driving to the March Meet a few years ago. As usual, we had a light sprinkle that morning. As I was turning off HWY 65 onto Famoso, my rear end let loose and I had zero control on my turn. I was headed for a semi turning left off Famoso onto 65 and traction kicked in inches before I T-boned him. Traction rules.

 

I drove my Cutlass street/strip car every day and to the track and back with 10"/26 Hoosier Slicks and never got stopped but when it rained I'd have to leave the car and call my wife for a ride lol.

 

my wife totaled her Mom's brand new '65 GTO (Iris Mist w/black vinyl top) driving on So Cal freeway in heavy rain day after her brother installed cheater slicks (Mom did not know) - she survived in Hospital, GTO went to junk yard

 

Gawd you were a dork.
Sorry I just could not resist.

When you were 2 laneing in the great northwestern rain forest the hiways were still paved with tar. You almost couldn't walk on them in a rain storm. One of the old guys gave me an old rock hard pair of cheater slicks that I put on my Roadmaster. The big old heavy car would motate, but you almost couldn't spin the tires in the snow. Grandpa laughed and took the hose out and wet the street down in front of the house. I rolled out and nailed it and it stayed right there. He asked me what I was going to do in the rain up in the Cascades.

 

Old cheater slicks weren't the same as what's sold these days from my experience. Back in '69 I had a nice little '52 Chevy hdtp. with a 371 Olds and a Hydromatic, and I bought a pair of locally built TDI cheater slicks for the rear. I loved them, but one day I was driving and it began to sprinkle lightly and I figured I better drive slower, so I dropped to 30 mph. I came around a gentle corner on a 4 lane street and the rear started to come out in slow motion. Before I could react I was sinning donuts down the oncoming lanes, and headed towards me was a postal Jeep. He stopped, but I kept sinning slowly towards his Jeep! He threw the Jeep in reverse to get away, and I was catching him until it finally slid to a stop a few feet from him!
I didn't take those old slicks off, but I was driving much slower in any wet streets after that!
I've driven much faster at freeway speeds with my Towel City pie crust slicks in heavy rains, and never had an issue. Either roads are better or these slicks are better?

 

When we were kids a lot of the roads in Oregon were tar topped and very little aggregate. They started paving more of the roads with asphalt as opposed to the older tar and sand treatment. I remember in '71 they were experimenting with ground glass on a stretch of highway up toward Tigard.

The newer roads have improved pavement for the most part and the newer tires have better compounds. The tires I just put on the rear of the wife's coupe say that they have improved grip on ice. Some of the farmers are running the same tire on their trucks and say that they do really well in ice and snow. Back when we were kids I used to run saw dust or walnut shell tires in the winter to get around.

 

These would be the opposite to the sticky Atlas Bucrons. Real common in the 60’s, recapped with the hardest rubber known to man!

 

Hmmm, tell me more!

 

You probably recall TDI (Tire Distributors Inc.) down on around 21st and East Burnside then? Everyone went there to buy their cheater slicks, but not sure if they simply sold them with their name on them, or if someone else recapped them for TDI? Lots of guys running them back in the 60's because they had a very tight tread pattern that made them street legal.

 

Seems like they were a capper. I remember the tires in question, we put a pair on Helms' T bucket.

 

I do not remember the hiway number. Tiny I think warned me about it or maybe it was Ivan and Tiny joked about, me falling down and rubbing the skin off my bones.