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I do like the rwl not the outline wl. Poll should have a yes on my truck and muscle car option instead of just either or.
I do not car for rwl on econo or commuter cars.
On one forum a guy whose UN was Tommy commented that my truck looked like a little kids truck cuz it had rwl tires. I thought it was ironic that he made this comment w UN= tommy. Lol
I do like the rwl not the outline wl. Poll should have a yes on my truck and muscle car option instead of just either or.
I do not car for rwl on econo or commuter cars.
On one forum a guy whose UN was Tommy commented that my truck looked like a little kids truck cuz it had rwl tires. I thought it was ironic that he made this comment w UN= tommy. Lol
Yea, I agree about the poll choice(s) I made. I could have done better on that. This is the second poll I've attemped, both kinda...needed more improvement. Personally I like them on my Olds. I don't like them on my truck, and as you said they would stink on a compact econo car. Never thought of that option.
Original bias ply RWL tires yes, and only on cars that had them originally. Any other RWL....NO. RWL Coopers, BFG, Mastercraft, etc all look like crap.
For a classic Olds (or any other contemporary American cars), it has to be white sidewalls.
Rwl belongs on proper off road tires on an off road vehicle.
Just my opinion which is of course, right on the money!.
Muscle cars and pick-ups for raised white letters. The work truck is a 99 Chevy 1 ton, gun metal grey, and hers is a 07 trailblazer, white. Both have black wall tires on them. I can't vote in the poll.
Pure opinion type poll! But some cars and trucks yes on RWL. White walls look great on the rear drive luxury cars. And some that have black walls from the factory look fine also.
Depends on the car, muscle i like raised white letters, pickup trucks, raised white letters. I dont care for the outline letters much. Most muscle cars and trucks look good with black walls, I dont care for white walls period, redline tires, has to be the right car. BFG TA Radials look good, used them for a long time, but switched to Cooper Cobras long ago, i get alot better mileage out of them. As for the poll, i vote yes, raised white letters on muscle cars and pickup.
And on another note, no shiney tires for me.
Rwl are over rated. It's so over done. Along with cragars. I do the back wall look on the cutlass and the Pontiac bonneville. I'm cool with white walls or vouges on the right car with the right wheels like cragar 30 spokes on an old caddillac.
The kit I got was the 1" BFG letters. They sell the glue with the kit. In my opinion placement, spacing, and tire size is very important for these to look right. I had a 15" real BFG RWL tire to use as a template.
Here's the Nitto's with their actual letters painted on
Problem is you have to touch up the letters every 2 or 3 weeks or they start to turn brown
These glue on letters are permanent and end up just like "real" RWL. I clean them with SOS pads just like I do the RWLs on the Cutlass. They have been on for about a year and 1,000+ miles. It's a 10 hour project to get them on and do it right but once they are on you are done.
Painting on the RWL never ends. Plus you are limited to where the blacked out letters are on the tires
This is a 275 60 15 BFG Drag Radial about 15 years ago when I still had 15s
Here's the Nitto's with their actual letters painted on
Problem is you have to touch up the letters every 2 or 3 weeks or they start to turn brown
These glue on letters are permanent and end up just like "real" RWL. I clean them with SOS pads just like I do the RWLs on the Cutlass. They have been on for about a year and 1,000+ miles. It's a 10 hour project to get them on and do it right but once they are on you are done.
Painting on the RWL never ends. Plus you are limited to where the blacked out letters are on the tires
The tire makers have to place a layer between the black rubber and the white letters to prevent a migration of the carbon black to the white rubber.
I just like black walls better. I might add im not a fan of cragars but my dad and i chose this wheel as we wanted a nod to the lowriders of the 70's which used cragars but we wanted the feel of a muscle car cruiser. Pretty good in between but on muscle cars im not a fan of them for the most part. The blackwall was a mutual choice.
Last edited by coppercutlass; Oct 16, 2016 at 06:32 PM.
The tire makers have to place a layer between the black rubber and the white letters to prevent a migration of the carbon black to the white rubber.
What brand of tire paint were you using?
That's true I only used the tire markers over the years - never that Ranger paint. I was considering trying it before I went with the Tredwear letters so I can't speak to whether or not the Ranger paint would stay white/last longer than the markers but it's sounds like from the reviews and info on it, it probably would.
I have blackwalls my on my Olds. Generally, the B/C bodies don't look good with RWL. It's fine on a Cutlass or truck though. My truck had RWLs on it.
I didn't know you could get tire paint. I've seen the white markers at the auto parts store. I always thought the yellow and red letter tires I saw were manufactured that way.
76 442 came new with white letter. Has BFGs white letter out.
67 Cutlass came new with white wall. Has BFGs black wall out.
83 Dodge W-150 came new with white wall. Has BFGs white letter out.
96 Silverado 3500 came new with black walls. Has Uniroyal black wall.
I like white walls too.
On "vintage" muscle cars (or little brothers w/ 6-cyls under the hood), RWL FTW!
On "vintage" luxury / large cars: White-Walls
On "modern" muscle (heck, CARS for that matter): whatever the factory provided, in almost all cases that I can think of it'd be black walls.
On trucks: Whatever the suspension/tire/wheel combo suggests; Raised for off-roading - BW or RWL, lowered "sport trucks" should get black walls.
I did have a set of RWL tires (BFG Radial T/As IIRC) on my '69 Toronado, they were a +0 size (lower profile / wider width to keep the same OD and give a meatier stance), they looked pretty good. But this was back in the '80s when RWLs implied "performance" more-so than today.
One modern trend in wheel styles that make me want to vomit is the "murdered-out" wheel look with flat-black rims that blend into the black wall tires and makes it look like the car is rolling on plain mono-block black disks. Either use a wheel with a chrome / metal rim, red pinstripe, chrome lug nuts, or something to make it look like the wheel and tire are two different objects.
Last edited by JohnnyBs68S; Oct 19, 2016 at 07:55 AM.
I like the RWL on all 2 door rear wheel drive Oldsmobile cars up until the mid-late 80's myself. BFG's or Mickey Thompson's are my choice. The others just don't look as good on the cutlass lines up to 88. Such as Mastercraft, cooper cobra's, those are for the chebby guys.
