[TR] TR3 tires 6" rims

[pethier at comcast.net]

> Anyway, having tried it both ways myself, I definitely vote for
> sticky
> tires.  The width is probably less an actual factor [...] than the fact you cannot buy high performance tires in
> skinny profiles.

Bingo.  Sticky compounds are not to be found in skinny tires.  Somebody point me to an exception to this rule, please!

> But what the factory absolutely did not have, was anything even
> faintly
> resembling a modern high performance tire. 

Bingo again.  The stock suspension on my Seven would have been perfectly capable of beating a Corvette in a 1970 autocross.  Now, even the non-sticky Dunlops it is wearing are too much for it.

(My Seven, although built in 1979, has chassis and suspension virtually identical to the 1966 Lotus Super Seven I saw running back in the day.  Some Caterham upgrades are on the agenda before I put on the real stickies.  The car will still look and sound like a sixties Lotus Seven.)

Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L   1979 Caterham 7
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