Re: Tires

[John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>]

MBran89793@aol.com wrote:
> FWIW for several years I have been driving my BJ8 "Blackie" on  Good-Year  
> Eagle GT+4 in 195/70-15 size on 15" x 5.5" MiniLite reproduction  wheels. To 
>me 
> these have the correct appearance on the BJ8 and I have only a  very little 
> tire scrub of full lock to lock turning.

Those tires are fatter than stock, and really don't look right.  My BJ8
came with Dunlop radials -- 165 or 175, if memory serves (and these
days, increasingly it doesn't).

I hope that no one here is under the impression that wider tires put
more rubber on the ground.  For a given tire pressure, the sq. inches
will be the same; only the shape of the contact patch changes.