Heads Up: 10.50-16 directional tyres

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by chris vickery
Hi Guys

Well I certainly have never seen such a group excited about new rubber... Kinda a tire salesmans dream...

At any rate, I was wondering what has drawn this bunch into the fascination of these tires? Is it the fact that they are true chevron style as per original cmp tires?
The reason I ask is because I am sure if they were 9.00-16 chevrons all us guys would be drooling... Correct me if I'm wrong but 10.50-16 were used on very few cmps, eg C15TA, F60S Bofors, C30 cwt etc...

G'day Chris! How's life out in the middle of nowhere?

I'll respond to your observations/questions while the others are busy wiping up their drool... at least I think it's drool... but I digress.

(1) Experience has shown that exposure to the rather thinner air in the Ottawa Valley has lead to some getting mixed up a bit; where to you and I, things like "curvature", "deep vee" and "shape" mean one thing, usually characterised by marked and exquisite femininity, this lot has regressed. There is a distinct possibility that spending altogether too much time in that backwoods shed in each others' company has skewed their perspective beyond hope, but we shall have to wait until spring, when Cleavage Season returns - then we'll know for sure whether there's anything worth saving or whether they should be put down, poor chaps. With me so far?

(2) The simple answer to your point #2 is yes - the chevron is a true mark of CMPness. As you well know, as good as they do look, non-directional American military bar-treads are singularly without character.

(3) Given the curvature (I have to be careful here) of a CMP front fender is a work of art within historic automotive design circles, it seems almost a shame that one cannot up-rubber to match that more closely - the 9.00-16, while attractive and versatile in its own right, is dwarfed underneath that volupt .... I mean, artistic curve of the CMP fender. Why not do it justice? Besides, with larger tyres, yon 15cwt suddenly gains a few miles per hour on the road, significant especially to the anemic 216ci Chev engine.

(4) There is no point #4, but if there were it might read that they like them in lieu of finding the chevron pattern in 9.00-16, with which I heartily concur (even if the tyres aren't the exquisitely feminine sort of curvature leading into a deep vee and.... I'd better shut up now).