So when I was stopped getting gas for the Missing Linc, a couple guys came up to check it out. One of them looked down and noticed a nail in my back tire. Boo. We all bent down to look at it. That’s when I noticed that two of the tires have got some good sized cracks along the outside edge. So I guess I’m looking for a set of tires now. I can’t complain about these tires, since they were the tires that came on the Road Ranger when I got it. I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten my moneys’ worth out of them.
I use this little truck more than all the rest of them put together, because it’s tiny and cheap to operate and easy to drive, but mostly it’s Lincoln’s favorite. He usually rides on top of the armrest, gets to see the world, and he can bark out three sides of it, whatever catches his interest.
It’s a four-wheel-drive, and it’s got about 3 inches of lift. It runs around and handles just fine for what I do now. I don’t go charging through the woods or such, but I do go off the road on construction sites occasionally, and we have the occasional couple inches of snow in Atlanta. Right now it has Goodyear Wrangler Radial 235/75/15 all-terrain OWL tires on my sexy rustoleum painted steelies.
I’m just curious what size, style and make tires you guys might put on as replacements. I’m completely happy with these, and when I looked at new tires, the exact same set would cost me about $500 installed, which was damn near the cheapest option. Cheap always works well for me. And at my age, and with my health, and no more than I drive every year, no matter what I put on it, they’re probably going to outlive me. And when I thin down my fleet, this truck will probably be the first one to go after the duplicate Town Car.
I’m curious, so with my set up and use, what tires would you guys get?
Afterthought, but I have a set of 225/75/15 white wall tires on Lincoln turbine wheels that I took off the ‘78 Continental Mark V that are in great shape, but they’re just highway tires. They are 5 x 5 bolt pattern, but I have a set of 5 x 4 1/2 to 5 x 5 wheel adapters. I’m not sure if the adapters or those turban wheels will fit over the rear hubs, and I’m pretty sure they won’t fit over the locking hubs. I might throw them on just for grins. Even though they’re thinner, with the wheel adapters, they’ll probably space out perfect just for the visual effect.
This picture is of the wheel, but the tires are white walls, not raised white letter. This is the same size wheel, but these are the wheels that I put on the Mark V. I just stood it up to see what it would look like.
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, I have a pack of the clips, luckily there's about 10" ahead of the access panel before there's a banded pallet of pallet wood that weighs about 500 pounds...
I’m planning on leaving for Carlisle tomorrow afternoon, and it’s supposed to rain all day, but hopefully I can fiddle with it and get it working. It’s a long drive to be without it.
