Doug, as was posted her a week or two ago, this press release
is totally & completely removed from the BFG tire operation - two
distinct and totally seperate companies.
The BFGoodrich corporation referenced in the release has not
built a tire in 14 years, since the tire operation was sold to an
investor group. This investor group kept the name for tires only.
Said investor group also purchased UniRoyal, merged the companies,
and sold them to Michelin two-three years later, creating the world's
largest tire company.
That Michelin/Goodrich/UniRoyal (And Kleber, Riken & ??) have
gotten out of grass-roots motorsports is totally unrelated to the
referenced news story.
Roger Johnson
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Donsbach <dldonsbach@mindspring.com>
To: <SCCARcr@aol.com>
Cc: <markds33@yahoo.com>; <solo2@qwest.net>; <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Neon Tire Question x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
> SCCARcr@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > What?? Since when is BFG not building G-Force tires...or did I just
fall for
> > a fast one?
> >
> BFG is selling their performance materials unit:
>
>
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=138935&TICK=GR&STORY
=/www/story/11-29-2000/0001375206&EDATE=Nov+29,+2000
>
> This is the unit that makes tires.
>
> There have been rumors that Michelin will make a performance tire similar
to the
> G-Farce. That will be the tire of choice for those with a limited tire
budget - NOT!
>
> LOL!
>
> Doug
> --
> Doug Donsbach - dldonsbach@mindspring.com
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