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[old2soon]

pressure difference in my front tires on my Oldsmobile made it pull to the right slightly. The right front tire was the one slightly low. The electronic digital gage I keep in the Olds reads to tenths. Got the front tires equalized went for a ride-no more pull to the right. And part of this is the WHY of me checking my tires on all my rolling stock a LOT. Specially on my Phatt Ghurl-only got two tires AND she too cursed heavy to push!  Plus with the cost of fuel creeping back up ANYTHING I can do to ge more M P G-I'm fer!  RIDE SAFE.

[G-Man]

Man, I remember when I first started driving.  Would purchase tires at the salvage yards next to Shea Stadium in NYC.  Wasn't out of the norm to have mismatched tires of varying sidewall heights and ratios, but they were all 14's or 15's. 

[The emperor has no clothes]

Man, I remember when I first started driving.  Would purchase tires at the salvage yards next to Shea Stadium in NYC.  Wasn't out of the norm to have mismatched tires of varying sidewall heights and ratios, but they were all 14's or 15's. 

, did the same when I was young.

[Jess Tolbirt]

Man, I remember when I first started driving.  Would purchase tires at the salvage yards next to Shea Stadium in NYC.  Wasn't out of the norm to have mismatched tires of varying sidewall heights and ratios, but they were all 14's or 15's. 

, did the same when I was young.

yep and if the car pulled to one side i would change tire positions until i got the best drive out of it,,

[The emperor has no clothes]

Man, I remember when I first started driving.  Would purchase tires at the salvage yards next to Shea Stadium in NYC.  Wasn't out of the norm to have mismatched tires of varying sidewall heights and ratios, but they were all 14's or 15's. 

, did the same when I was young.

yep and if the car pulled to one side i would change tire positions until i got the best drive out of it,,

I wasn't smart enough for that 

[cookiedough]

I remember driving my old Buick until literally the cords were showing.  Then I guess time to replace the tires?  I think not a lot of us do that anymore, but in our younger days if it started, we were happy to have wheels moving on down the road regardless of what it looked like.

Not many hot college girls when in my early 20's cared much for when starting the old Buick up,  it smoked and smelled, but I didn't care, it ran.    Didn't get a lot of dates back in the day, wasn't a cool enough car I guess for them prissies. 

[Jess from VA]

At 15/16 pumping gas in a Mobil station ('68-9), we sold used tires.  And I mean really used tires.  Like tires that came off a customer's car that needed new tires.  Anything short of bald and cords, and would hold air, we would sell it.  The really bad ones were $2-3, and the merely bad ones were $5.  And a buck fifty to mount them (we did not balance them  LOL).

You'd think this was unfair dealing but we had a big Chrysler engine plant down the road running three shifts (back when Detroit was the Motor City), and lots of the shift workers commuted downriver from the City in really bad cars with bad tires, and it was actually a public service (of sorts) to get them back on the road and home.

Thinking about it now, the safety fanatics of the world (and G regulators, and insurance companies) would scream and wring their hands and pull out their hair seeing the tires we sold back then.  

I made a buck twenty five an hour and had to wash every window on every car that came in for 2-3 dollars of gas.  The window washing wasn't all bad.... that was the days of the 6" miniskirts.  

The day I turned 16, I bought a 62 VW Gia and on fifty a week gross, I never put one of our used tires on my car.  I do recall running some retreads (remember those?).

[Patrick]

If I had a car pulling I'd stick it on the alignment rack.

Back then many of the new cars came with Royal tires. We removed them and installed good tires, refused to sell those things on a new car. We sold those tires for $5, and, sold a lot of them.

[Atl-Jerry]

and if you could swing a new set of recaps, it was a very good day.

[John Schmidt]

As a kid I did most of what you all are describing. Had a '48 Dodge for a first car, just over 5 yrs. old and low mileage. I was in hog heaven, cost $200 for the car, less than $10 for title and registration work, and insurance was only $27/year. My biggest cost was keeping tires on it, dad insisted on good ones so regular visits to the junk yards were in order. Strangely enough, I used the same source for bike tires. I had buddies that worked in gas stations and they would keep an eye out for my size of bike tire. For all the naysayers of a car tire on motorcycles, you just haven't been around long enough. Over the years of riding(well over 60), I probably have more miles on car tires, front and rear, than I do on bike tires. As was stated earlier, if it moved under its own power, it beat walking any day. Besides, as a mild mannered teenager with quiet hormones(would I lie?), you just can't beat having that young female heart(?) pressing against your back, especially since you had just told her to hang on tight. Discounting the fact that most of my early "creations" didn't have enought power to pull a sick hooker off a greasy commode. Aaah...youth!!   

[old2soon]

When I first got the Olds I had mismatched tires on it. Even after airing them up the car was a total P I A to drive. Found 2 of them the same and put them up front-SOME improvement BUT still a P I A to drive. Wally Wurld had a tire sale and had 4 new Goodyears mounted. Ended up at 44 P S I front and 42 P S I rear and all is well. Tires wearing even according to the depth gage but I found out the car is sensitive to minor tire air pressure differences. When I say P I A to drive it just wanted to wander while trying to maintain straight line forward progress. Having driven a Buick with an identical drive line-3.8 4 speed O D-I knew the Olds would be a good choice-similar to our Valkyries-damn near bullet proof with proper maintenance!   And like the Valkyrie-I owned it the day I picked it up.   Some interesting stories about being broke growing up and sorry assed tires on our vehicles. First couple sets of tires I bought for my 54 Ford came out of a junk yard. Flipped the rear spring shackles on that 54 and had 950-15 tires on the rear and 560-15 up front-used to call that-The California Tilt!   RIDE SAFE.

[Robert]

Keep the tire pressure up to 38 psi and you will increase gas mileage about 2 to 3 mpg. That is as long as the max tire pressure molded into the side of the tire will allow it. Most will say 44 psi max but 38 will still give you a decent ride and more mpg.

[Hooter]

Man, I remember when I first started driving.  Would purchase tires at the salvage yards next to Shea Stadium in NYC.  Wasn't out of the norm to have mismatched tires of varying sidewall heights and ratios, but they were all 14's or 15's. 

Boy are you old....14s or 15s....   Thats still what I have on my 66,,,15s.

[Patrick]

Keep the tire pressure up to 38 psi and you will increase gas mileage about 2 to 3 mpg. That is as long as the max tire pressure molded into the side of the tire will allow it. Most will say 44 psi max but 38 will still give you a decent ride and more mpg.

38# ??  Even when my door jam says to use 39# ??   Just kidding.    I know what you're referring too and agree.