WOO HOO!!!

[leecreek]

Unique tires. Wrecked Johns post tho....

 

[DrEntropy]

further "wrecking".... but I think he'll get over it. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

 

[Woodie]

A woodie is deffinitely not British, check out my name, and I'm a Canadian (and damned proud of it)

 

[healeyboz]

That is pretty cool!!

 

[racingenglishcars]

While we're on the subject of WW tires, imho they look great on a 40 ford woody.
A search for listings of white wall in "classic cars" on ebay uk resulted in 5 American cars, 2 British cars, 1 German car and 1 Italian car with white wall tires.
The British cars were a RR and a Jag E 2+2.
This is out of 15 RRs available and about 80 Jags available.
Clearly not a British thing.
A comparable search in ebay motors com gave 120 cars which included mostly 30's through 70's American cars, 2 RRs and 3 VWs.
Clearly an American thing.

So I guess you'll have something nearly unique!

 

[bugimike]

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[John Moore]

Clearly an American thing.

So I guess you'll have something nearly unique!

Donn, I didn't realize that! I've always seen wide white on older classic cars but through the 60's then they went to thin white walls. I remember reading somewhere that white walls were a factory option on North American Spec MGB's.

But wide whites are coming back in style with the hot rod crowd and specifically the "Rat Rod" guys. And of course they never went out of style with the "OG" (original gangsters) in their "pimp-mobiles"! lololol!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewall_tire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimpmobile

 

[racingenglishcars]

I will say you've done your homework finding pictures of Spridgets with wide white walls.

 

[bugimike]

Check out Team Sprites beautiful BE, it has the wide whitewalls (That classic look!!).

 

[Baz]

I think Team Sprite got theirs from Coker too....
I guess he (Coker) is the source for such...

Ohh, forgot......I know, wrong forum.

 

[ncbugeye]

This is the thing I thank my careful PO most of all for... he had this plate from 1976.

 

[SteveT]

John,

The pictures of the blue Bugeye and the other pics later; were they from the British Car and Cycle Day in Dayton, Ohio show last year? Just wondering if you were there?

Steve -- Dayton, OH

 

[John Moore]

John,

The pictures of the blue Bugeye and the other pics later; were they from the British Car and Cycle Day in Dayton, Ohio show last year? Just wondering if you were there?

Steve -- Dayton, OH

Steve,

No, I just found those photos via an online search when I was trying to decide if I wanted wide walls and what color combinations worked best with them. I would really like to see a bugeye in Nevada Beige, but I haven't found a good photo. That might look really classic with the white walls and red interior.

 

[jlaird]

Miss Agatha was Nevada Beige from the factory. A real nice color in fact but the wife would not hear of it.

In her mind Bugeyes are Old English White.

 

[John Moore]

Jack,

Here is the only photo I've been able to find on the net and it's not that great. I've heard it described as the same color as file cabinets!

 

[jlaird]

That looks like it but the pics someone provided me it was a bit more brown. Could just be the pic.

 

[DrEntropy]

That color does look the same as used on industrial grade office furniture! eww.

 

[ncbugeye]

I have these two pics I trolled from somewhere on the net, and I think the car is Nevada Beige ... (sorry one comes up as a link and one inline) ...

 

[racingenglishcars]

/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif, with Jack's wife that is.

 

[John Moore]

Thanks Chris, those are probably the best photos I've seen of Nevada Beige. It does kinda look like a file cabinet. Too bad it's not a more buttery than grey beige.