because they are lethal to drive under slippery conditions....Originally Posted by Fleet 500
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because they are lethal to drive under slippery conditions....
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Heh-heh... no because they salt the roads (salt=bad for a car's metal).
You may have a point, though. Some of them don't have good traction even on dry roads (500 ft-lbs of torque will do that).
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it is not the torque, it is the primitive construction of the car, which gave them very little traction....which of course was good to satisfy some Americans' juvenile preference for burned rubber.Heh-heh... no because they salt the roads (salt=bad for a car's metal).
You may have a point, though. Some of them don't have good traction even on dry roads (500 ft-lbs of torque will do that).
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Not only that but period tyres must also help in not having traction at all.
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
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yeah, IIRC the crossply reigned quite a long time in the USA....
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Right. The Polyglas tires didn't have very good traction. One car magazine lowered the 1/4 mile time of a 427 Camaro just by putting wider tires on it (it went from 14.0 seconds to 13.0). And a '69 440 Dodge Dart GTS... 13.7 @ 107 with the original skinny tires to 12.7 @ 112 with wider tires and no other changes.
Last edited by Fleet 500; 05-09-2007 at 12:25 AM.
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Torque (low-end torque, that is) was a major factor. One guy I know had wide (about 12") radials tires on his '69 Fairlane 428, and it still would burn rubber almost all the way up a hill.
Let's hear it for juvenile preferences!
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we hear you every day....Let's hear it for juvenile preferences!
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Right. Count your blessings.
Just think of all the misinformation about American cars you would have believed if I weren't here.
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yeah I would have never believed that burning rubber was important...Right. Count your blessings.
Just think of all the misinformation about American cars you would have believed if I weren't here.
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It is for me... I won't own a car that can't burn rubber. Because you never know when you have to.
Come on... tell the truth... you do it too, sometimes... right?
'76 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five Limousine, '95 Lincoln Town Car.
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give me one good reason why you would have to....
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never, I have ESP/Traction control....
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I have never done it, and altough I reckon it would be fun, I don't understand why anyone would not buy a car solely because it can't burn rubber...
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Visca Catalunya!
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you can always try under braking....
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