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When did white wall tire go out of style?
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:22 am
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:22 am
I remember scrubbing mine as a teen?
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Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:24 am to travelgamer
When we quit making cars that had style to them
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:24 am to travelgamer
Why? Are you gonna cruise the Miracle Mile?
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:28 am to kywildcatfanone
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When we quit making cars that had style to them
Your best bet's a true baby blue Continental
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:42 am to travelgamer
When automakers became Box Stores
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:43 am to travelgamer
When Mr. Roarke retired from Fantasy Island.
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:46 am to travelgamer
When the Dallas Cowboys stopped winning superbowls
This post was edited on 10/5/25 at 6:47 am
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:48 am to travelgamer
Those sucked.
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:50 am to travelgamer
When metal bumpers disappeared.
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:56 am to travelgamer
When the tire stores were out of black tires I would get whitewalls and put the white to the inside
Posted on 10/5/25 at 7:16 am to Red Stick Tigress
GHETTO
Posted on 10/5/25 at 7:35 am to travelgamer
Posted on 10/5/25 at 7:52 am to DVinBR
Posted on 10/5/25 at 8:00 am to travelgamer
I was wondering this the other day also. Man, back in the day, if you had a nice car, especially a sportscar, you wouldn't even consider anything else.
Posted on 10/5/25 at 8:07 am to travelgamer
I remember scrubbing them when I was a kid too
Posted on 10/5/25 at 8:09 am to travelgamer
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I remember scrubbing mine as a teen?
I’m guessing when people got tired of scrubbing the fricking things
Posted on 10/5/25 at 8:13 am to travelgamer
Most of the tires pictured are referred to as whitewall but aren’t true whitewalls. They are black walls with a white stripe added on.
True whitewall
Why they went out of style? Combination of cleaning and higher cost.
True whitewall
Why they went out of style? Combination of cleaning and higher cost.
This post was edited on 10/5/25 at 8:15 am
Posted on 10/5/25 at 8:16 am to travelgamer
How many people do you see actually washing their own cars today???
Most just run them through a carwash and whatever gets cleaned is all it gets-------no scrubbing the fender wells to get off road dirt that accumulates, no deep cleaning of tires and rims, no wiping down the door jambs or the metal on the underside of the trunk and hood.
Most just run them through a carwash and whatever gets cleaned is all it gets-------no scrubbing the fender wells to get off road dirt that accumulates, no deep cleaning of tires and rims, no wiping down the door jambs or the metal on the underside of the trunk and hood.
Posted on 10/5/25 at 8:25 am to travelgamer
Really in the early 80s. When I was in high school, that if all was white letters. No hot rod was complete without some white letter tires
Posted on 10/5/25 at 8:37 am to LanierSpots
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Really in the early 80s. When I was in high school, that if all was white letters. No hot rod was complete without some white letter tires
Th last I remember seeing whitewall tires was in the 80s. And it was on models popular with older folks, like WWII generation, who were reaching their 60s and 70s at that time.
Which, whitewall tires are what they’d grown up with. Back in the 40s and 50s, having whitewalls was a status symbol. It was the cheap tires that don’t have whitewalls.
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