Thread: Project "Left Overs"

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Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Isn't there a saying about your kids keep you young, that is if they don't kill you
Ken

I think they have this all planned out, Ken. They figure if I go they get all my stuff! Oh wait, they have more stuff than me anyway.

Don

Ken, Radir also do a 12.00 x 15 , have a look here http://www.radirwheels.com/contents.htm

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Is that about the widest is the wide whites? I need as wide as possible, 12" would be great.
Ken

Thanks Steve, those look good.
Ken

I have a pair of the 9.00's for my 26T

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Thanks Steve, those look good.
Ken

If I'm going to have to find 3 cars this year, we better meet at Hooter's friday night across from the track.
BradC

This is the year, Brad. I'm going to make it a point to finally get to meet you. Hooters sounds great. (and the wings ain't bad either )

We got a little more work done on Dan car yesterday but Saturdays are usually not as productive as Fridays because we are too wiped out from working on it so many hours. Both of us were sore and tired, but we got his shift linkage sorted out and he got all the brake hose measurements so can get those ordered Monday.

When he gets home from work tonight we may go there to just do a few small things to keep the momemtum going. One of those things might be to put his driveshaft back together. We had to remove the U joints when he had it powdercoated. We may have enough energy left to do something like that.

Don

Hey guys,
Does anyone remember portawalls from the 50s and early 60s? They were a rubber white insert that you put on the tire before it was mounted on the rim to make a black wall look like a white wall. Does anybody still make them? Just a thought. Maybe a new old come back in the works.

Jack.

Originally Posted by Jack F

Hey guys,
Does anyone remember portawalls from the 50s and early 60s? They were a rubber white insert that you put on the tire before it was mounted on the rim to make a black wall look like a white wall. Does anybody still make them? Just a thought. Maybe a new old come back in the works.

Jack.

We ran 'em with tube-type tires. Don't know if they would work with tubeless tires. The main problem with 'em was that....at speed, the air would get between the port-a-wall and the tire and stretch the paw material so that it looked like a bunched-up mess. As long as you were just runnin' around town, they were fine, but stay off the high-speed roads.

And that's why we call them Flappers over here.

Believe it or not, Jack, they are still available! Here is a link:

http://www.portawalls.com/

I ran some back in the early 60's, but they were very short lived. If you touched a curb they tore, and even going down the highway chunks would come flying off. Maybe these new ones are better.

Don

I guess way back then my cars didn't go fast enough to encounter those problems.

I run them on my teardrop trailer but wouldn't run them on a car for the same reasons as Don said.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Believe it or not, Jack, they are still available! Here is a link:

http://www.portawalls.com/

I ran some back in the early 60's, but they were very short lived. If you touched a curb they tore, and even going down the highway chunks would come flying off. Maybe these new ones are better.

Don