Looking for some ideas about wheel and tires combo for my 1965 galaxie, want sometihing different. Someones have pics please. this is my ride now with 14¨inches (too small). thank's
How do you intend to use the car? The following are suggestions for a car that needs to work in regular use, they're non-OE rim sizes but they're not rubber-band tires either. 16x7 steelies - possibly '98-02 Crown Vic P71 cop-car wheels - or 16x7 Vintage Wheel Works V40 or V45 Torq-Thrust clones - with 225/60-16 tires. Tire Rack's closing out the Fuzion ZRi in that size at $69 each, which is a good tire and pretty much an unbeatable value. 17x8 Vintage V40 or V45 Torq-Thrust clones or V60 GT40 Halibrand clones or Torq-Thrust IIs, there are some Magnum 500 repops in that size but I haven't personally touched 'em, might be some steelies out there, in any case with 235/55-17 tires (the later P71 Crown Vic cop-car size). The Sumitomo HTR Z III is a really good value in that size. Note that my tire suggestions are based on my experiences in coastal California weather, they're most definitely not winter tires for places where it snows. Personally I would not use a 15in wheel (or 14in) just because there aren't any 15in tires (or 14in) in Galaxie sizes any more that are up to modern standards of tire quality and performance. And I wouldn't run staggered sizes (bigger in back) 'cause old Galaxies understeer enough as it is. Your priorities might be different.
Thank's Jem, here in Quebec, Canada, during the winter time our car are in storage from November to april and we don't use them in the snow but in april to november its close like in your country. What do you thing about 17's, 18'or 19`?
I don't like rubber-band tires, I've gone to 18s on my closer-to-pro-touring-than-HAMB '64 (wagon...), I've still got an acceptable amount of sidewall (I think) but it's a tradeoff. I would have preferred 17s if I could have found quality tires big enough for what I was trying to do. The real limitation these days if you plan to drive the car the way you'd drive an off-the-showroom-floor Corolla is that there simply aren't any good modern tires available in 14s or 15s for these cars. There was a window of time, from maybe the late '80s until about six or seven years ago, you could get some 15in tires in big-car sizes that were modern designs with V or better speed ratings. They're all gone. You've got to go to the 16 and 17in cop-car tire sizes to get something even as good as a generic Honda Civic tire now. So it depends on whether you want a period look, and what you're prepared to trade off to get it.
The thin whites came with it on 15x5.5s. The coker's are 225/75R15s on 15x6s. Sent from my DROID device using the TJJ mobile app
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