What's your preference? Blackwalls or raised white letters. I know it's personal preference, but I'm torn right down the middle, and I can't afford to mount the tires twice! Pictures would help!!

I like white letters IF it's an American brand tire. Foreign tires with something like 'Kumatzoo Nushatzi 2000' on 'em just don't look right on a muscle car,

steel wheels/blackwalls
full wheel covers/whitewalls
any other wheel/white letters

What wheels are you using ?

White letter tires!

Rallyes as shown in the second pic. John. The ones in that pic are the repop Goodyears bias belted.They gotta go!

Depends on the wheels. I run them all ways. White letters out on Rallye wheels and Road Wheels, black walls on Cragars and on steelies with dog dish on cars and on my truck wheels. White walls out on New Yorker with Rallye wheels.

This is pretty much my thoughts. BUT can have exceptions depending on color.

Forgot to add, no white letters on luxury cars. White letters on a New Yorker or Imperial (or Lincoln or Cadillac, for that matter) look hideous.

Tire / wheel choice can completely change the looks and demeanor for the car.

Case in point.


I'll add. To ME personally. Body color steel wheels and beenie hubcaps are Blah on most cars


I am giving thoughts to change mine out with either some old school Cragers or maybe polished Torque Thrusts. BUT storage for the spare tires/wheels is a deterrent for me.

I do like me some redlines on certain cars/wheels.

white letter on that car

The 3 photos above each make a different statement - well done on illustrating that.
I prefer the redlines/Magnums, but the whitewall/covers say "bone-stock original", and the letters/Magnums indicate there may be something extra underhood.

I generally run blackwalls, as to my eye they don't detract from the car's styling or complicate the overall image.
But if someone made redlines in sizes I want for less than a mortgage payment, I'd do that on my RRs, which both wear Magnums.

It all has to do with context, right ?

Depends on the tire and wheels I have both.

Go with the combo platter... Painted/Dog dish with White letter...

My vote is RWL!

Or blackwalls on the passenger's side and raised white letters on the driver's side..............................JUST KIDDING

Why not? You can only see one side at a time...

Darn Jeff that's one sharp T/A!

Road wheels - white letters, on common name brand tires. (Good Year, B F Goodrich). If not a name brand tire, black walls.

I run black wall tires on my 49 Dodge truck and other older hot rods because the white letters pinpoints an era of history. White lettered tires screams late 60s - late 70s.