Hot Rods Porta Walls

Has anyone used porta walls on radial tubeless tires? I used them on my old 53 Ford back about 1964. Worked great, but was tube type, bias ply tires.
I can't even begin to afford Coker, and unable to find affordable ones in my tire size. Limited choice of size because or clearance issues, front and rear?

 

They will disintegrate at highway speeds!

 

Seems a here on the hamb someone posted shaving the side walls of white letter tires to reveal the underlaying white as it is a full cir***ference strip beneath...pesto! wide whites

 

They didn't actually work good on bias tires but us broke *** guys ran them. At least I did in the 60's.

As far as shaving white letter tires not all white letter tires have a solid band of white rubber clear around the tire, I played with one with the grinder here one day when this came up and there was a serious gap in the white rubber on that one.

There is a tire shop in Portland Oregon that sticks radial white walls on their owner built machine that cuts off the black overlayment to give a wide white. They cater to the Portland area lowrider brigade. I'm not finding the link to their shop though.

Back in the 70's there was a guy who came around to the dealership where I worked and had a machine that he would trim the sidewall and apply a layer of white rubber to the sidewall to make all four tires have matching white walls on used cars. He just made the rounds of car lots and kept pretty busy. It didn't take very long per tire either.

 

Diamondbacks sound promising.

 

I did this once, drove for eight years including a 5,000 mile holiday trip without disintigrating..
Technical - Porta Walls | The H.A.M.B. (jalopyjournal.com)

-Dave

 

Every set I have seen mounted on radial tyres has ended in tears - or tears- ripped against the curb, or flying off at speed. I could only keep a set on because they were on rag tyres, (not much sidewall flex).

 

Simple A to Q is "NO",,don't !!!~
Long a-go it was a cool low $ idea that worked at the low speeds of the time !!!
Now days the road speed is both too high an there are no new porta-walls=just old dryed up hard ones that come-a-part even faster then they did back long a go. Called new,but new old stock.

 

They still sell them new.

 

Sounds pricey, plus not something I would consider.
Not looking for wide whites, want the narrow. Really love to have the Red pin stripe.

 

Diamondbacks just as pricey as Coker.

 

yep, just went though this with a set of redlines on OT truck. Not a cheap tire, but a really good tire and the colored line or white wall will last longer than the tread of the tire.

 

I was just looking at wide whites for my '57 ford at 240 bucks a tire, around 100 cheaper than cokers. Not planning on swapping them out until the chinese white walls are worn out though.

 

But at least they are round-- Not like Coker that are as round as a brick