<VV> Re: VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 10, Issue 41-----Cooper tires/Autocross FTD

[Taruffi57 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/8/2005 11:19:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:

Subject:  <VV> 185/80/13 Tires: Good News and Bad News
 
I have a set of Coopers on my wife's '64 Monza convertible.  They are  a soft 
riding tire w/o a lot of stiffness in the tread.  Great for a  comfortable 
ride and certainly OK for regular street driving.  However,  since I have high 
performance tires on everything else I own, I wouldn't get too  frisky with the 
Coopers.  They will definitely slide sooner than a  stiffer tread tire and I 
took my wife through an autocross run (lots of  screaming) and they had very 
little grip and lots of squeal.  Since I  wanted to stay with something near 
stock size, I couldn't find any other tire to  mount even though I really wanted 
a better adhesion tire.
 
Oh. Thanks to all of you guys for the acknowledgement of my first autocross  
FTD.  Now I need to try and not be a one-shot-wonder.
 
Joe Dunlap
Cen. Florida