Customs Unique Tire ID

Someone had posted these photos of his '32 Ford. Wants to the year or age of the tires. Says the car was parked in 1951. He's keeping them for wall art. Can't blame him

 

I think that tire has been recapped. just guessing in the late 40's

 

Hey I was just talking to you on FB.....I was the one digging on the channel job after asking for pics of the car lol

 

that's not a recap. No buffing line on the side.

this is from 1942

 

doing some more looking, the Silent Grip tread was advertised through 1946, then kind of went away.

 

Unique? Only in the sense that different brands had different tread patterns...as they still do. And of course, brand whatever's xyz pattern was always superior ...whether in 'grip,' ride, wet weather, handling, braking etc. Then they move on to something else unique.

 

I sell General Tires now. While I couldn't tell you about the silent grips. General started in Akron (1915), Ohio along with certain brands like Goodyear (first factory in Akron 1898) and Cooper Tires (1914). General is owned by German company (now) Continental, still producing good tires in a mid-range market price... For anyone interested in history.
Edit: I should mention also B.F. Goodrich (mid 1800s) & Firestone (early 1900s). All from Akron, Ohio or head quartered (B.F.) there.

 

Weird how the outer two inches or so of radius looks pretty fresh while the rest is cracked to heck.
It looks like a retread to me as well. Maybe just different grades of rubber for different parts of the tire?

 

yeah, it's weird, but recaps also weren't done with the original oddball tread design, eh?

 

That pattern in the sidewall is moulded in. There are cracks but they aren’t the geometric pattern that’s mostly evident, if you look closely you can see the pattern repeat.

 

Even with the textured sidewall (strange), that looks like a hot cap to me. I once worked at a tire shop with a retreading factory. We did hot and cold caps. Bootleg/clone tread designs were part of it. We had Michelin clone truck caps and Firestone clone snow tires. Almost all of the tread designs looked like something. You can see the buffer mark on cold caps. Hot wrap around to the sidewall. I think I see a parting line at the tread/sidewall junction on this one. Either way, cool wall hanger ! Mike

 

I see a crack, but not a parting line. Thanks for the info about recaps

 

There was a thread mid 2023 ***led oddball or wierd tires or something along that line

 

I've seen that tread pattern on other old tires. Seems like they were smaller, like a wheelbarrow tire or two wheeled cart.

Gary