Thanks Jerry for a definitive answer. This explains the availability as
this size is reported as not currently manufactured; and also the low price-
I guess someone might want them for rollers on a show car.
Dallas
----- Original Message -----
From: <randerson33@triad.rr.com>
To: "Dallas Congleton" <dcongleton@embarqmail.com>
Cc: "Ed's Shop" <shop@justbrits.com>; "Healey List" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fw: BJ8 Wheels and Tire Sizes? Final....
> Dallas,
>
> We called and these tires were manufactured around the turn of the
> century.
> They are to old for me to use or sell.
>
> Jerry Anderson
> Hendrix Wire Wheel
> ---- Dallas Congleton <dcongleton@embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> Ed, thanks for the vote for Coker, but the old days are gone. Many of
>> Coker's tires are now being outsourced, many to Vietnam. This may be good
>> or
>> bad but remember the main reason any product is outsourced is to have
>> them
>> made cheaper, which isn't always labor cost. We know that one of the
>> first
>> casualties in these facilities is quality control.
>> I have asked around before about these 175/80R15 BFG tires and haven't
>> found
>> anyone that has used them. BF Goodrich doesn't list them on their site,
>> so
>> the tires must be a Coker imitation.
>>
>> Dallas
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