Firestone also gave sets of tires as prizes in 1963 (at least) to all
who set a record.....I got a set but have no idea where they are now.
Who knows somebody at Firestone?
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At 07:46 AM 8/22/2006, Wester Potter wrote:
>As a starting point I'd suggest a search of Hot Rod Magazines from
>the late fifties and their articles on the then new, Firestone
>land-speed tires. There were some rather comprehensive explanations
>about the tire construction at that time. (Darn! ... Wish I hadn't
>given those magazines away when I got married.) As I remember they
>went into some rather extensive detail about the way the cords were
>laid up in the tires. They had delivered a set of land-speed tires
>to Ab Jenkins a few days before his unexpected death in 1956 so they
>were not working from a blank sheet of paper with their thinking.
>
>Wes
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