Original Tires junk or treasure?

[Agent-J]

In the past several months I have purchased a 1985SC with only 17,000 documented miles on it the only problem was I need to replace the dry rotted tires. Me being the pack rat that I am I have kept the original tires to help document the originality of the car. Do you think this is necessary or am I just wasting precious garage space?

Thanks, Jim

[negusm]

Dry rotted? So they are unuseable? Do they hold air?

-Mike

[Agent-J]

Yesy they hold air I just didnt trust them to drive on.

[87ASC]

Depends, honestly if you are looking for orginals I would look around goodyear (I believe thats the orginal company who did those tires) and see if they have what I call "New Orginals". By the way, were the gatorbacks the orginal tire?
If so here is a website for them:
http://www.goodyeartires.com/goodyearti ... erformance

[87ASC]

It says Gatorbacks anyway .

[S]

keep him and hang them on the wall just to show everyone how incredible well kept the car is, that happend with a friends mustang they put a car cover and hay on it some 30 years ago and hung up the tires and had the car on jacks. it was a sight to see the car (under cover) and the tires hanging in the barn like that..thought it was cool i guess sooooo might as well keep them!

[Agent-J]

Just for the record the 1985 50SC original tire are BFGoodrich CompTA's.

Could someone please answer the question are the tires worth keeping if you where looking to buy a 22+ year old car would this matter to you or would the 4 inch stack of paper work mean more than a used up set of tires.

[negusm]

http://www.ascmclaren.org/phpBB/viewtop ... 0784#10784

Are those original tires for the verts?

[Sandy]

Agent-J, did that car come out of Maryland ? Red ?