The only genuine '70s period tyre in the size 175/70VR13

As well as another thread a couple of days before that.


You'll be telling us about great deals on k!tch3en$ next.

Hmm

Not sure about that.

Anyway - fact - they handle better on a 175/70VR13 CN36 than they do on a 205/60R13! fact!

I know you are going to kick off about this, but it is just true. if it wasn't Ford would have fitted 205/60R13.

Also a CN36 has a more suitable carcass for a Mexico, so that will also help keep the handling progressive, where a more modern tyre carcass will let go more suddenly.

Ford fitted what they got the best deal with at the time - tyres are sold to manufacturers at less than cost to secure the aftermarket and production cars are built to a price point not with what was the best available.
Likelyhood is that Pirelli gave Ford the tyres.

From a braking and handling point of view I will stick with modern patterns and compounds and trim the car to work with them rather than go back to the progressive handling characteristics and tyre tech of the 1970's but thats just me. £500 buys some seriously rubber these days.

Personally if I had the cash I'd be straight up to Longstone to get some really good looking period tyres. So many cars seem to end up on too-small (sidewall) modern tyres and old Fords are greatly susceptible.

Proof!



Ford didn't just buy the cheapest tyres they could get for their Mexico and RS Cars, that is rubbish! Why would they be buying Pirelli's instead of some budget brand. like Porsche and some of the other manufacturers at the time they wanted the best handling tyres so they fitted CN36. the other best option at the time was Michelin's XWX or XDX. maybe what they fitted on their more proletariate cars budget might have been an issue, but the Mexico and RS cars had the best. hence the CN36

Classic tyre on classic car picture shows where the inner wing has rotted and the strut has come away from the inner wing

Many of you appear to be quite dismissive of Dougal's postings, fact is that the guy has the guts to go out into the market, make an investment and stock a previously unavailable tyre that was fitted in period to what now is quite a collectable car - it's not just this tyre either - Dougal has spent many years convincing tyre manufactures to reintroduce / remake previously unavailable tyres for veteran, vintage and classic cars and I can assure you when it comes to tyres for older vehicles he knows tyres like nobody else knows tyres.

I have no connection with Dougal's business 'Longstone Tyres' but on every occasion I have used him - his knowledge, understanding & service have always been excellent and I can thoroughly recommend him - it's all too easy to mock someone from behind your keyboard but just bear in mind that without guys like Dougal we could all be paddleless up the creek when we cant get the right tyres to fit the retro / classic cars that we own.

Ah - Nearly forgot - you will all be wanting a picture to go with it



1952 Jowett Javelin (on 16" crossplys has supplied by Dougal - try obtaining them at your local fast fit tyre centre)

Well dougal007 being a bit slow on the uptake I don't really know what you are showing me in your pictures, so just what the heck are you trying to say fella? Why is my car that was built in the seveties no good on modern tyres? To my eyes it looks ok, and for my driving style its pretty good too!

Would love a set of those tyres for my GT6 when its finished. I'm not sure why but they just have a nice shape to them, maybe they have a softer sidewall? I think I'll have a set of these on the dolomite sprint alloys I have and something else on some staggered banded steels.

Maybe some Avons like this. In fact, they should be in the sidewall thread