Originally Posted by kentj340

When I bought my 1969 Barracuda back in the fall of 1968, it came with Firestone Wide Oval bias ply tires. After only a few years, in 1970, that original set of tires was replaced with, again, new Firestone Wide ovals. But the 3rd set of tires I bought were radials. I vividly recall being totally shocked eek at how much better the radials were and that it was such a big and obvious improvement.


I remember when I put bias plies on my 64 300. It had some cheapo radials on it when I bought it and I "upgraded" to Protracs. I remember how crappily is rode compared to the cheap, wore out radials it had. This was in the late 80's.

I got married and at some point my old lady needed to drive the car for awhile. She hated the bias plies so much that she had radials put on it, I was pissed as she just did it then told me. That was the last time she ever drove "my" car, whatever it would have been.