Atwell (Buff) Haines wrote:
>
> At 08:50 AM 11/16/97 -0800, Joe Curry wrote:
>
> >So
> >what do you do with the rest of the old tire? Probably, you pay
> >somebody to dispose of it. Ot you could throw it on the roof of your
> >Trailer house as I have seen numerous times as I have traveled in rural
> >areas. What's up with that?
> >
> >Joe Curry '63 Spit
> >
> Yeah, I noticed that done too, on a trip out west in '93. Why DO they do
> that?
>
> Atwell Haines
> '79 Spitfire (Restoration costs include $10 to dump 5 tyres. Should have
> strapped 'em to the softtop)
>
> Succasunna NJ USA
My faint recollection from my grandfather's explanation was
it helped to hold down the tin/metal roof during wind storms?
Scott Suhring
Elizabethtown, PA
'70 TR6
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