[Healeys] 100 original tires

[gradea1 at charter.net]

I have original Dunlop Road Speed 590 x 15 (H) bias ply tires on my
early 100. Purchased from Dunlop dealer at Vintage Tires, Nova Scotia,
Canada Five tires $1600, made from the original molds in England. They
are tubeless (but use tubes inside), nylon and look period correct but
ride like hell. I show the car with these. I keep the car on tire
protectors and have a spare set of wheels and Michelin X 165-15
radials for whenever I am able to safely drive the 100 again. Hank

	-----------------------------------------From: "Jean Caron via
Healeys" 
To: "S and T Miller", "healeys at autox.team.net"
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday March 24 2021 6:22:31PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100 original tires

	Shawn, 

	I have checked the book put out by Road & Track, about road tests of
various models of Austin-Healey and other than references to the tire
size 5.90 X15, there is very little about the brand although in the
road test of the 100M, they make mention of the Dunlop Road Speed. 

	Not knowing what countries required from these manufacturers, it is
hard to say what tires came with the cars in North America. I know
that here in Canada, not sure what year either, the Canadian
requirements were that the headlights fitted to car coming from abroad
had to be Canadian made, so either cars came with headlights that were
sent from Canada to the manufacturers or they came here without
headlights and were installed by the dealers. Nowadays it is common
that a car sold in a specific country must have a certain percentage
of the car that part have to come from the country where they will be
sold. As an example, today’s Mini Cooper, when it launched in 2002,
BMW listed 119 suppliers of parts, coming from Brazil, USA, Germany,
UK, France, Italy, Austria, Belgium and Hungary. 

	Jean 

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	FROM: S and T Miller via Healeys
SENT: March 24, 2021 7:15 PM
TO: healeys at autox.team.net
SUBJECT: [Healeys] 100 original tires  

	I have a Dunlop Road speed RS4 (for display purposes only) hanging in
my garage. I was curious what originally came on the 100? Some sources
state Dunlop road speed. From some light digging I did online it seems
a RS2 or RS3 were never made available. Also found that the RS4 could
have been used as early as 56' and the RS5 around 59'. The period ads
list the RS4 for the 3000 and a few other cars.    

	So my question is, was there a RS1? Or even just a Road Speed without
any further letter/number identification? I almost feel comfortable
pointing at the tire and saying "that is the original tire that would
have come on my 57' 100-6", but what about the 100. Hmmmmm. Could be
wrong though.   

	Thanks all, Shawn   

	The Millers

 "Always drive them, but remember each drive in an antique car is a
test drive." 

	   

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