14 in Tires....

[mrfury68]

225/70/14 on my Fury. I thought about going with 15 inch tires with the road wheels but I found my 14 inch Magnum 500 wheels and that is the look I always wanted so I kept the 14's. The car rides and handles great. These cars weren't meant for hard, high speed cornering anyhow.

 

[fury fan]

I'm going to be driving the car so i don't want to go Bias. .....
There are times that I will want the original look with the hubcaps. I think for now I'm leaning towards Hankook BSW tires. After looking at the window sticker and seeing that BSW is what was on it when new.

IMHO don't do BSW, WSW to the inside looks goofy and BSW won't be flattering to the wheelcovers or the car. That is what car guys will notice, we won't be seeing the window sticker to know what's correct. Dad bought a 77 Dodge Aspen SE 4dr, ordered it with BSW and full wheelcovers and it looked *terrible* (Dad didn't know how to keep whitewalls clean so didn't want them). With all the SE trim and pinstripe it looked like wearing a shirt and tie but not wearing a belt.

Or.....
You can buy a reasonably priced commonly available tire in the size of your choice and buy a $35 speedometer gear.
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Remember this is a 65, so speedo gears for 65-older are unobtanium (last I knew anyway). And I spoke with the owner of 'famous' A&A Transmission a month ago and he is contemplating (but struggling) to find a cost-effective way to re-pop these gears.
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I run some older Kumho 215/75-14 on my 300L and they are a decent tire and the correct diameter. Do I wish they were wider? Sure! But they work just fine for a cruiser. Haven't put many miles on them in the last 7 years, but they hold their air very well, so that's the most important thing right now.

From what I've read, UV exposure and exposure to other weather conditions probably plays the largest role in tire degradation. I have 2 cars sitting on 5-9 year old tires and they have no visible cracking or degradation. 1 sits indoors 100%, the other sat outside most of the time but in a shaded area.

IMHO the shelf life of tires is a ripple in a pond, the media and tire professionals are just parroting the same rhetoric.

 

[furyfever]

225/70/14 on my Fury. I thought about going with 15 inch tires with the road wheels but I found my 14 inch Magnum 500 wheels and that is the look I always wanted so I kept the 14's. The car rides and handles great. These cars weren't meant for hard, high speed cornering anyhow. View attachment 72835

Gorgeous! That's "the look" I'm looking for. With the recent purchase of my car, the seller gave me a set of 14" painted (silver/black) magnum 500's with the stainless trim rings. They have Cooper Trendsetter 215/75r-14's on them with good rubber left, BUT the whitewalls are on the inside. Perhaps I should spend the $40-60 to get them turned around and balanced.

Are these wheels in your photo the painted (silver/black) magnums with trim rings?

Thanks, Bob

PS...photo of my car with same roofline/skirts as yours. Really would look good magnums like yours.

 

[BillGrissom]

P205/75R14 on my 65 Newport. They had that size when I bought it, so just kept buying those. Same tire size on my 96 Voyager minivan (4 cyl). I might consider a tire w/ a larger OD someday for better highway mileage. Wider tires look neat, but give poorer mileage, and often slower 1/4-mile times in a stock vehicle, if it doesn't spin its narrower tires.

Don't worry about wheels, since there are a gazillion choices for C-bodies w/ the 5 x 4.5"D bolt pattern (same as Chevy and many others). The whiners are A-body owners thru 1972 who have the 5 x 4"D "small bolt pattern", for which few wheels are available. But, so many change to the 1973+ A-body 5 x 4.5"D pattern that SBP wheels are actually cheap as used. If I ever got new wheels, I would look for 15" since those clear most front disk brakes.

 

[twostick]

Chev bolt circle is 5x4.75. No worky on a Mopar. Ford is 5x4.5 except F100 and Lincolns which are 5x5.5.

Kevin

 

[68 4spd Fury]

Mine has the 215/75-14's on it. I'm pretty sure they are the original size, (8.25-14 or G78-14), as the speedometer jives with my GPS. The ones on there are Michelin X from 6/84, (according to the date on the sidewall), and have some serious dry rot. I'll go with the Hankooks, the redlines would be nice but $200+ vs. $60-$65 kind of makes up my mind. Most cars back then had undersize tires in my opinion. Mine was definitely an ordered car and I wish the guy had checked a couple more boxes, power disc brakes, (which would have come with 15" tires), sure grip, HD suspension, but it is what it is.