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When cars are laid up for prolonged periods, flat spots can develop on the tyres. That can be exacerbated with old tyres that have lost their flex. So, a tyre change may be all that is needed but a spanner check on the rear suspension is vital.
Amazes me that the previous owner was happy to spend thousands on suspension upgrades, but not a few hundred dollars on new tyres!

The car will be on stands with the wheels off during winter storage.

Excellent opportunity to get new tyres on those wheels.

It's on the list. Probably have to settle for what's available here, because I can't get the tires that I really want on this side of the pond...

I think https://www.longstonetyres.co.uk/ will send UK spec tyres to the US, quite a few Three Wheeler owners use them, Dougal the owner is very knowledgeable on classic tyres

These arrived today! Four days after I ordered them from https://www.vintagetyres.com

The Vredesteins work really well for me ... they seem a sweet-spot between performance and price .... look forward to your feedback.

Not wishing to stray into 'Soap-Box' territory but I'm on a number of forums and the efficiency of selling stuff into the States is something that has come up a few times lately on completely unrelated sites (guy orders drive sprockets for an obselete mini-digger from a place that still makes them in the UK ... on his Tenessee doorstep three days later) .... if we can 'third-party' trade like that to the US then why is 'third-party' trading into the EU such a disaster unless someone's being deliberately bloody-minded about things??

K

Do you really have to ask ? things are worse now than before we joined ?????????????

I have a pal who seems to be immersed in American custom truck culture currently re-designing/building what will be a rather special 60`s PU truck,he regularly buys kit from the US for his project, he has fitted a GM LS engine of considerable power output, apparently that is not enough, thus had decided to fit a supercharger to it...! Just not my kind of machine, but the service he gets from his US suppliers seems second to none and they seem happy to be just a phone call away when he has any questions.

K, I can well understand that a racer by nature is ever after max advantage relative to choices for his machine, but finding the very best possible tyre would seem to equate to pushing one`s luck to ever higher G cornering, until the day one pushes that bit too far... been there done that.. As an impoverished yoof I would drive on any tyre that had tread regardless of age, whether cross ply or radial, which was interesting equating to setting op differently for left and right hand corners and at much slower speeds than those with top notch matching rubber...Thus perhaps the ability to adjust ones driving style for whatever rubber might be available for use on our pot holed roads could save a bit of worry for some if feeling stressed that they can not find whatever group think determines might be the only tyre to have..?

Now that I'm retired and relatively skint, I will be fitting T-Trac 2 next time instead of the Sprint Classics currently on the car.

Trouble is, I'm having a bit of a job convincing myself to change them. The fronts are getting on for 10 years old, the rears for 6, and so you'd think they'd be hard as nails and slippery as a greased pig. And yet even when very cold and on damp roads the tyres still seem to grip absolutely fine. Even when I really nail the throttle to force them to break away they let go gracefully and come back under control very neatly.