quality of used tires down?

[Rick W]

I’m just throwing this out for grins. When I met my first wife, she was driving an Austin America, not to be confused with the BMW made mini Cooper. It had 12 inch wheels. I think it was about a 1970, and this was in about 1978. And she drove this thing around the potholes in New York city.

In the picture, it looks a little bit like the 60s and 70s Volkswagen station wagon, but I think it was actually about 3/4 the size.

Shortly there after I bought a pinto squire station wagon that had 13 x 5 wheels. It was like driving a go kart.

 

[superj]

i surely would have said that was a vw slant back wagon.

i had an old honda, a 76 accord, and it had really small wheels too... 13s i think. that was a great car but that carb floats got pin holes and i couldn't find just the floats. a new carb was more then the car cost so that cool old honda went to the junkyard. it had a 3 barrel carb

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Yep, my 77 pinto has 13" wheels. The rubber still looks really good, but even I won't drive it on the road for real.

 

[sgtsandman]

I’m just throwing this out for grins. When I met my first wife, she was driving an Austin America, not to be confused with the BMW made mini Cooper. It had 12 inch wheels. I think it was about a 1970, and this was in about 1978. And she drove this thing around the potholes in New York city.

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In the picture, it looks a little bit like the 60s and 70s Volkswagen station wagon, but I think it was actually about 3/4 the size.

Shortly there after I bought a pinto squire station wagon that had 13 x 5 wheels. It was like driving a go kart.

I had a 1988 Chevy Sprint and a 1992 Geo Metro that had 12 wheels. Tires were super cheap as a result.