Jesse:
I was in the process of posting a response, but the editor beat me
to it.
For cost effective street tires on the B. I just use the local tire
shop who are very nice folks. They supply a house brand tire "Jupiter"
which is a cheap economy tire for shoeboxes. $30.00 per tire and they can
supply the 185/70 14 for Rostyle use, or a 175/78 14 for early wheels and
wires.
Nothing fancy but the tires are round, stop the suspension from
scraping on the ground, handle reasonably well in rain and dry and have good
longevity.
If you want tough to source. Try finding deals on tires that will
fit my 66 S-Type Jag wire wheels. 185/78 15 are kinda tough to find locally
at any reasonable price.
Kelvin.
> I know the editor is out there, I'm not knocking the
> magazine. In fact, I
> loved it. I will continue to buy it, but what happened?
> Sounds like you
> where promoting the four suppliers who pay to advertise in
> your magazine
> rather than help out the guy who would like to just buy some
> tires for his
> non-show/racing car. >>
Their comments, boiled down, were
> that they don't
> worry much about MGBs since there are so many very
> inexpensive tires on the
> market -- The Tire Rack, and so forth -- from which
> appropriate tires can be
> For any of you MGB specialists out there, is there any reason
> Jesse couldn't
> just drive over to his local big-box tire supplier and buy a
> set of 14-inch
> radials (165, 175, or 185 x 70 or 60) and have them mounted
> on his MGB?
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