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Title: Make your own white walls.
Post by: Beetleboi -Greg- on May 29, 2009, 12:45:25 AM
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124144 (http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124144)

Hmmm I dunno about this...
Title: Re: Make your own white walls.
Post by: lovebus (jack) on May 29, 2009, 08:23:22 AM
Thats a cheap way to do it.

I love this one. Redneck way to mount a tire. AND IT WORKS!!! I guess I need to keep some lighter fluid in my bus just in case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0GNLvPmAg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0GNLvPmAg#)
Title: Re: Make your own white walls.
Post by: njgt-1 on May 29, 2009, 09:30:18 AM
Saw that one before..

anybody remember "Portawalls" fake whitewalls that went over your tire ? I think they are still available mail order..
Title: Re: Make your own white walls.
Post by: VWPANZER1 on May 29, 2009, 11:56:10 AM
  I remember those days when you would find Port-walls along side the road or some guy going down the street with half a Port-wall attached under the rim and half out - flapping away! LAUGH@

jt
Title: Re: Make your own white walls.
Post by: njgt-1 on May 29, 2009, 04:51:45 PM
QuoteI remember those days when you would find Port-walls along side the road or some guy going down the street with half a Port-wall attached under the rim and half out - flapping away!

Had em on a 61 T-bird many years more than I care to remember! had cheapo re-tread tires on that one too!
Title: Re: Make your own white walls.
Post by: Beetleboi -Greg- on May 29, 2009, 08:13:19 PM
That mounting video rocked!
Title: Re: Make your own white walls.
Post by: Baha (Shawn) on June 05, 2009, 08:43:50 AM
Truckers & 4x4 guys have been doing that for years, but you use way more and it not only mounts it but with about 4 psi in it
Title: Re: Make your own white walls.
Post by: carfolite73Super on June 05, 2009, 09:44:24 PM
Years ago I worked at a car dealership in Cherry Hill where they would bring in a guy that would cut the whitewall into the tire while it was on the car. Simply raise the tire, place a device under the tire (with a motor on it) that would rotate the tire. A cutting tool was then used to cut into the tire to expose the white.
Cool