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Make your own white walls.
« on: May 29, 2009, 12:45:25 am »
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Re: Make your own white walls.
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: Make your own white walls.
« Reply #2 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..
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Re: Make your own white walls.
« Reply #3 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@

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Re: Make your own white walls.
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2009, 04:51:45 pm »
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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!

Had em on a 61 T-bird many years more than I care to remember! had cheapo re-tread tires on that one too!
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Re: Make your own white walls.
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2009, 08:13:19 pm »
That mounting video rocked!
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Re: Make your own white walls.
« Reply #6 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
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Re: Make your own white walls.
« Reply #7 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.
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