Just to be sure, I looked up the options on all the various Sprite and
Midget variations and found whitewalls as available starting with the
Bugeye and continuing throughout production. Dunlop SP41 radials
became available as options on the Sprite Mk4/Midget Mk 3 models.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From <KGROWLER at aol.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: White Walls
> Sam wrote:
>
> <<<Jim
> I beleive that all cars were produced with Dulop black wall bias pli
> tires at the factory. Any whitewalls would have been U.S. dealer
> options.
> I had an early Mk2 which I bought used (2 yrs old) from a BMC dealer
> in 1964. It had Dunlop blackwall tires that had white wall rings
> added.
> I guess anything could have been possible.
> Sam AN5, AN8>>>
>
> Not true in the late stages of productions. My '79 Midget I bought
in 1981
> had white wall Dunlop Sport SPs on it that were by all indications
original.
> When I got a Heritage certificate on the car, "Whitewall tyres" were
listed
> in the Details of Equipment.
>
> Kim Tonry
> Downers Grove, IL, USA
>
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