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Not quite four years and less than 1500 miles later one of the radials came apart on our way home from last year's Reunion. Several thousand dollars of fender repair and a new set of Firestone bias plies later I am perfety happy with how they ride. I don't drive my car hard so the handling is just fine...for me.
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My wife and I were planning on taking our 37 Cord to New Zealand and were going to be driving it on both islands. I decided to replace the 4 road tires before the trip. What to put on? The Cord came to me with Firestones belted. Should I go more Firestones ( I like the look of them on the car) ? Or should I go with radials. A few years before I had purchased a 37 Cord for a museum that I volunteer for and it came with radials. So I brought that Cord home to my house and switched the wheels and tires with my belted tires so I could test drive my Cord with radials. The radials were Diamondback and the wheels that they were mounted on were modern replacement wheels without tubes. My driving impressions with them on my Cord were that the steering was harder at low speeds, the car felt more sure of it’s self on the road, it cornered better and I found myself driving harder into curves simply because I could. I had to mildly adjust the rear fenders so the radials would not hit them when on my Cord. My decision for New Zealand was to put on the car a new set of Firestone belted. My reasons were I was concerned that I would be temped to over drive the car and being on all strange roads it would not be a good idea. Also my concern was that I have original heavy duty wheels on my Cord and I thought that if I over drove the car I could crack a wheel and maybe a even a front hub. And there was a question of, do I put tubes in the tires as I would be using original wheels or not. If no tubes, would the tires hold air for 3 months that it took for the car in a container to get to New Zealand and if the tires were flat what would the warehouse do, maybe just drag it out on the flat tires. The belted tires I feel ended up being the best choice for me, they were a known factor and I had a good handle of there adhesion properties to the road. In New Zealand we had many days of rain, a lot of that in mountains and hills on narrow roads with many switchbacks. The belted tires did not hold well in the tight wet corners, but I knew their limit. We went 2,000 miles in NZ and no tire or wheel problems.
My wife and I were planning on taking our 37 Cord to New Zealand and were going to be driving it on both islands. I decided to replace the 4 road tires before the trip. What to put on? The Cord came to me with Firestones belted. Should I go more Firestones ( I like the look of them on the car) ? Or should I go with radials. A few years before I had purchased a 37 Cord for a museum that I volunteer for and it came with radials. So I brought that Cord home to my house and switched the wheels and tires with my belted tires so I could test drive my Cord with radials. The radials were Diamondback and the wheels that they were mounted on were modern replacement wheels without tubes. My driving impressions with them on my Cord were that the steering was harder at low speeds, the car felt more sure of it’s self on the road, it cornered better and I found myself driving harder into curves simply because I could. I had to mildly adjust the rear fenders so the radials would not hit them when on my Cord. My decision for New Zealand was to put on the car a new set of Firestone belted. My reasons were I was concerned that I would be temped to over drive the car and being on all strange roads it would not be a good idea. Also my concern was that I have original heavy duty wheels on my Cord and I thought that if I over drove the car I could crack a wheel and maybe a even a front hub. And there was a question of, do I put tubes in the tires as I would be using original wheels or not. If no tubes, would the tires hold air for 3 months that it took for the car in a container to get to New Zealand and if the tires were flat what would the warehouse do, maybe just drag it out on the flat tires. The belted tires I feel ended up being the best choice for me, they were a known factor and I had a good handle of there adhesion properties to the road. In New Zealand we had many days of rain, a lot of that in mountains and hills on narrow roads with many switchbacks. The belted tires did not hold well in the tight wet corners, but I knew their limit. We went 2,000 miles in NZ and no tire or wheel problems.
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Since I had two of them blow out at speed I'm not taking any more chances with them.
May you have many more miles of "Effortless Motoring"!!!
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The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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onto my current restoration too. And, was just on the phone a week ago with a friend who swears by them on Cords - agrees that they are a fabulous look matched to a fabulous road tire. I buy from Kelsey Tire though all be it have bought countless sets of tires for non ACD cars from Lucas and Universal, plus Coker.
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The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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Just my thoughts.
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I also have Diamondback radials with 3.5" wide whitewalls on my Glen Pray Auburn Speedster, and they look great and drive superb as well. These came with the car, so I didn't have anything to do with picking them, but the 3.5" wide whitewall I think is striking. Some photos.
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As to Radials - I would try the Diamondbacks.
I thought the Coker radial tended to have too aggressive of a pattern on the inside of the casing and seemed to be hard on tubes.
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Bill Heisler - 1936 Cord
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now you have old tires again. Have seen it happened many times. Just a suggestion.
CORDiallyMike
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