I have used Cooper Sport Radial tires and find that they are pretty good. I
would not shy away from them at all.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: <v6spitfireguy@cox.net>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 6:26 AM
Subject: [Spits] Tires for our cars - sigh, again
> Listers,
>
> Here we go again - sometimes it get so frustrating -
>
> It is now time to replace the worn out tires on my Spitfire, and as with
> so many other things associated with our cars I am finding it
> increasingly difficult to find the size I want. I currently have
Sumitomo,
> 205/60 R13, which are OK. and replaced the BFG tires of the same size
which
> are no longer available, which I really liked.
>
> Now it seems, unless you want to put wide rubber bands on 30 inch rims,
> these sizes are becoming obsolete. I personally DO NOT like the look of
> 40 and lower series tires on anything older than 1990 vehicles and I
> don't care for the look of even 50 series tires on our cars.
>
> So my options now so far are, I may be able to order what is left of the
> Sumitomo if I can find them, Or if not those, either these,
> Nankang-Tires XR611 205/60 R13 (never heard of them), or the Cooper
205/60r
> 13. Toyo are really too expensive at around 130 a tire --
>
> Anybody have any experience with Cooper tires good or bad?
>
>
> Barry Schwartz
> La Mesa(San Diego), CA
>
>
> P.S.
> I'm going to run out to a couple of stores locally that are "suppose" to
> have some of the tires I have listed, but I am NOT optimistic that they
> actually have any -
> Wish me luck -
>
>
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