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Restoring - General discussions that span across many different groups of years and models => Misc Items => Topic started by: Anghelrestorations on June 30, 2016, 09:52:57 PM
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Put together a new article on tire date coding for original Goodyear tires. I wanted to get the usual suspects here to take a read and comment but also would like to see a few people look at their original tires to make sure this works for everyone. Let me know if there is any questions or issues.
I did leave some information out - in particular how to decode which plant the tires were made at since in the end this isnt really information anyone really needs or wants. Otherwise it becomes too long.
http://anghelrestorations.com/uploads/3/1/7/6/3176630/goodyear_polyglas_tires_v1.3.pdf (http://anghelrestorations.com/uploads/3/1/7/6/3176630/goodyear_polyglas_tires_v1.3.pdf)
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z213/azscj/IMG_8457_zpspvqcw04t.jpg)
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Very informative. Thank You for posting, Marcus. I think I am going to print the article and keep a copy in our shop. I know I'll never remember all that info!
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Thank you for the article....
Off topic: ....Made In U.S.A. who would have thought this would become such a meaningful and rare statement. In the 60-70-80-90s...I took it for granted. Now it is such a rarity and something I really enjoy seeing!
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Thanks Marcus - I guess ! SCJ has a LR in the trunk - Dec 1968. Is that ok for a APril built car?????????? ( I don't even want to look at my other ones) LOL
Mark
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I cant say December 1968 is a bad thing....besides you don't have too many options to replace it. The fact that you have a correct original tire(s) is better than most.
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Mark - the spare in my 3/69 SJ car is dated 2/69 so it looks like the dates ran pretty tight to actual build dates.
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Yeah The "spare" is in the car as it was never removed from a rim, still has daubs on the rim and is the BEST of the 5 originals I have. I will look at the other (maybe today). It was hard enough getting 4 rims to match up on the dates! Fearful I will want different original tires now ! LOL
Everyone that saw the car said "are you crazy you can't risk one of those blowing out" -it will take out a fender! What they didn't know was that the car would be driven 1/4 mile in 6 years. (once)
Mark
P.S. I didn't know which hub cap to put on the car either !! The NOS service "sticker" style or the original line STAMPED caps. REALLY don't want to start swapping tires/wheels and caps to get right. Then there are the original wheel weights.............
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...and valve stems!
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...and valve stems!
That was easy - think
Mark
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Marcus,
I'm starting to pull out all my tires to check the dates. I have questions on the first two tires I pulled out to decipher......
1. I have a Goodyear Power Cushion 6.95 - 14 with a date code of 0N0S0B3, can a system 2 have 6 or 7 digits as a date ? I believe this code to contain zeros and not the letter O. This tire is mounted on a green painted steel rim that I was told came from an AMC car. I believe that as correct since the back side of the tire has an ink stamp stating AMC Kensha Wisc.
2. Off topic slightly - do you have any info on date codes for Firestone deluxe champions, specifically Z000318C ? Thank you
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Dudley....yes, you can have a six or 7 digit code...the length of digits is not as important. But to decode that tire it would be the first two digits 0N (with the first digit being a zero and not the letter O). That would translate to November 1965.
As for the Firestone I did not do anything for the moment as they use a completely different date code system before 1971. Thats a whole different project.