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Any guess as to how old this BFG tire design is? I don't have it in front of me to look up a date code. Just curious if this is 80's style? I don't think it would be 90's but not sure.
That tread style was used in the 70's. The early-mid 70's T/A radials had a bit smaller lettering. I would guess that tire is mid-late 70's. On a '72 Olds "A" body?
Last edited by BeenThere; Aug 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM.
That tread style was used in the 70's. The early-mid 70's T/A radials had a bit smaller lettering. I would guess that tire is mid-late 70's. On a '72 Olds "A" body?
Do you happen to know the car? Could you message me anything if you do? Like to learn more about it if you know anything.
This link was just sent to me. looks like 1994 roughly is when they left this smaller tread design. Not sure what generation the white letter style is. They sure do scream 70's or 80's to me.
Sure looks like a bias ply to me and BFG stopped making them in the mid 70's. Of course, it does say radial TA so not sure how that applies, but it does look like a bias ply.
Sure looks like a bias ply to me and BFG stopped making them in the mid 70's. Of course, it does say radial TA so not sure how that applies, but it does look like a bias ply.
If it says "radial" on it, it's a radial. BFG did at one point market a "Belted T/A" which (of course) was not a radial.
Like all of us, I've purchased many tires over the years; very few B.F. Goodrich, yet for what it's worth there's what appears to me to be a tell-tale sign which likely equates to a rough time period of manufacturing.
The sidewall in the image is a B.F. Goodrich tire. Note later tires are marked BF Goodrich (no periods separating the B from the F).
The all-caps B.F. GOODRICH with the periods after the initials are the first gen T/A radials, as seen on the Tirebird that raced on these street tires. Still one of the most effective advertising campaigns ever, as most of us of a certain age still use BFG T/As on our musclecars for this reason.
Mid 70's. I knew a guy who bought a new '73 Trans Am, and these were the tires that were on it from the factory. In 1978, I bought a set of T/A's for my '73 Cutlass, and the design was different.
The then new tread design appears in the 1978 ad, the next in 1979 with the new lettering is what i put on my '73 Cutlass, so, I was off by a year perhaps. That style went on my '66 GTO in 1980.
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Looks like last redesign, the fifth and current generation of was 31 years ago! The only real change was the wonderful brown letters. Mine are just outside that. I need to sell mine before they are aged out, 2016/2017.
Looks like last redesign, the fifth and current generation of was 31 years ago!
Save for the browning of the raised letters which is a real concern. I mean I have seen it on cars showcased for sale for top dollar and it looks lousy. If you are not into blackwall it's an issue.
But besides that I can understand why they have not changed anything else. The tire has always looked great since day 1 in 1970, but the current iterations looks are perfection in my opinion, initially and always on the blackwall side. And maxing the rim width is the icing on the cake for appearance.
