Doug,
Why do you think you need to run tubes with LAT 70s? I'm sure many
of us on the list including myself are running them tubeless. I anyway have
had no problems running tubeless tires on the LAT 70s.
Dave McDermott
At 07:50 PM 4/2/98 -0500, Doug & Rett Leithauser wrote:
>I have LAT-70's on my car, & while they are a good looking wheel & a good
>period piece they are a pretty lousy wheel from a functional standpoint.
>They require a tube, in a tubeless tire world. there is about nothing
>avalible in the way of high perf. tube type tires, & using a tube in a
>tubeless tire pretty well wipes out the speed rating, so now I'm running
>around in a 130 mph car that I can't get suitable tires for my cool
>original type wheels. No I don't drive it that fast, or at least haven't
>recently, but that is not my point. I sure hope these wheels are better
>than they look, cause they look like they were some high school kids
>metalshop project, with rough castings, a big parting line & only the
>outside machined. But, like I said, they look cool, & are apropriate for
>the car, so they stay on.
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>Doug Leithauser
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>> Richard Atherton writes:
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>> >OK, so what happened to the original molds for the LAT-70 wheels?
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>> While I do spend some time on the LAT wheel story in the book, I'm not
>> certain there is mention of the final disposistion of the "70" molds.
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>> Rick McLeod purchased them with plans to put the wheels back into
>> production. DOT regs forced completely new patterens and for the dead
>> purest, another wheel altogether.
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