A&Q about 350Z
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I'm watching a muscle car marathon on the speed channel, which i bet yall are too :-)
Why did the 60's/70's cars have such thin tires?? They look like they get like 5 inches tread to the ground.
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they didnt have the technology to make wider ones
back then they made bias ply tires and now they make radial tires. its a lot easier to make radials wider
A:
The same reason they had 8-tracks, because that was the best they had.
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Damn, i figured it had something to do with insurance costs or something.. Like the company's seeing wider/bigger wheels and it provoked a more "sporty" (more expensive) look.
Now i know, thanks.
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Na, nothing so exotic. Back then we would not have thought "wide=sporty". Bias-Ply tires were awful, be glad you missed it. But we did not no any better then.
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Man, i'm 23, but i wish those cars where being made now-i love them. I never drove a big block muscle car, that must be awesome. All that power is intense, even though alot of those cars weighed 3900+lbs, they had torque for days. One day i will own one :-)