Junk. Tried them once when i was a young lad. They get pinched in the bead with the tire and glue the rest. Glue lets go, now it looks like a bottle cap flipping around when your driving. People would point. I thought they liked my car but they where realy laughing at my not so cool floppy white walls. Embarrasing, lol.
Yes, PortaWalls look good on everything but a tire. I have seen a few that pulled off the right look, but they wrinkle pretty quick. Steven.
Still own a few sets,break bead down,insert under edge of rim,slowly add air,use a white rubber hammer and center as you inflate go the rest of the way and there you have it. Have used them for a long time,but remember,if tire goes soft and your drivin,make a turn and it will rip it out...good luck,G
Most look like an elephants condom. Though have had some on one of my rides for 10 years no trouble. Narrow tires 195x14 ,dont seem to have cut the walls.Though sure would put condoms on a nice car. My other cars have the real deal.
They are great if you are selling and someone is buying, otherwise... If the rear tire goes soft on a '53/54 Chevy, they'll get trimmed right down by the fender lip. Then they'll look like bottle cap edges!
the guy with the description of the rubber mallet for mounting sure hit that on the nose, good thing I was young 40 yr ago and could hammer and mount tires with the best , they may take a little whacking to get seated, never had any problems after they were finally properly mounted at this age just buy some new tires that make you happy, they were worth about $5.00 in 1963 and the value has not went up much yet
yea i have tried them. piece of crap, never fit right, an nobody knew or gave a crap how to mount them so we just s--- canned them an bought real WW,s, and that was at least 50yrs ago. Are they still around?
They can cut into the side wall and damage the tyre. They are OK for a shit box car, but not for putting lots of miles on.
I have used them for about 4 years now and have had no problems at all. Use the mallet to centralise the portawall and its all good. I think people get into trouble when they use them with radials as the side walls do a lot more work than with cross plys.
True.....about using the portawalls on radials......don't work so well. Back in the 1970s I tried putting some 4" wide "gangsterwalls" on the radials on a 70 Buick Riviera I had. Looked real cool, but they would pucker and also slip out from under the rim. Back in the 60s, ran some approx 2 1/2 to 3 inch portawalls on cars with bias ply tires and they were OK. In those days, the guy at a corner filling station not far from my house would let me do all the work myself - use their jack to raise the car, use their lug wrench, etc. I took a while with each tire, tapping the portawall with a rubber mallet to make sure it was seated properly and evenly.....they stayed on fine. Even ran some on my parents 1960 Chevy station wagon.
I ran a set of atlas brand portawalls on 13 inch radials for several years.I had to use rubber grease between the flap and the tyre to stop it cutting,but other than that no problems
Had them on my '37 Ford when I got the car. On a short trip they went air born. Oh well, wide whites now. Maybe they weren't installed correctly. Good luck.
Back in 50s-60s many of us tried them with little luck.On a driver which most were,they flared out,flapped and made a racket.I know there are many pictures of rods and costums with portawalls but we had no use for them on anything that had to be driven any miles at all.
I had no problems with them, but i have a friend with a tire machine. Sounds to me like proper mounting is the key
I recently had them fly off of my Olds when I was doing over 100. I heard a loud "whap" and looked back too see the wall was about 40ft in the air. I glad the road was deserted.
had the atlas ones on my early falcon on radials .Theybroke loose on the hwy and put a bunch of white marks all up the side of my car ... dont do it
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