<VV> TIRE SAFETY CORVAIR??

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

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>This might be interesting to people looking for tires that are getting
>hard to find or have been on your cars for awhile.
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>http://www.flixxy.com/car-tire-safety.htm
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Thanks, Guy.  This really is an issue in the collecter car realm, where 
the tires that fit our favorite models are either no longer available, 
or only available as expensive reproductions made on a limited run 
basis, and we might be tempted to use tires that are less safe.

Also, imo, brings up issues related to modern vehicles unable to be 
driven when a tire fails due to current suspension design -- especially 
overweight trucks with passenger car suspensions, ala SUV's.  In the 
older days of bias-ply tires and tubes, catastrophic tire failures 
occured rather regularly, and yes, resulted in some bad accidents, but a 
lot of times you just pulled over and put on the spare. Are things so 
different now?  Are we driving too fast? (naw - <ggg>)

Bill Strickland