can anyone identify these tires??
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#3
Don't know the brand, but do know you aren't likely to find anything exactly like them in a modern tire. Pretty much everything modern will be radial. If my eye sees correctly they are the optional 19.5" bias plies that were available on these early factory 4x4s. I've had the same frustration looking for tires for my M-Hs. All the modern traction tires in my size and bias ply are foreign made, and don't have that old original look. But I got lucky and found a guy on Craigs List selling the below tires that had been hidden away for years in a warehouse. They are Cooper/Mastercraft Courser Traction LTs. Four are bias ply 7.50 x 17"s and the other two are 8-19.5" bias plies that are essentially the same tubeless size as the 17" tube type construction. Stu
#4
wow those tires are beautiful Stu, nice find!!
Julie, I'll probably do that but if I can't find anything I think I might like these
900-16 STA Superlug - Truck - Truck and Military
Bias Ply Tires for light trucks - STA Superlug Bias Ply
Julie, I'll probably do that but if I can't find anything I think I might like these
900-16 STA Superlug - Truck - Truck and Military
Bias Ply Tires for light trucks - STA Superlug Bias Ply
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#6
Good choice. And USA made. They are real popular in the Power Wagon community. I think they'll need a 6" wheel, though. To me one of the things that has always attracted me to the '59 picture you posted was the fact that they are tall and skinny. Great for ground clearance and to dig in where needed. Stu
#7
Ground Hawg is close in pattern, but is wider.
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#9
They are most surely 19.5" Firestone tires(The 19.5" wheels were an option on F250 Fords up to 1966, I believe. I had six Firestone stamped wheels that came on an F250 4wd. I sold the wheels to a restorer). I believe they were called Super All Traction or something of that sort. They would be a descendent of the Firestone chevron-patterned Ground Grips of the 30s and early 40s era. If you have ever seen pictures of early WW2 vehicles or 30s trucks with traction tires on the rear, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Those tires are or were recently made for larger trucks.
Anyone living in the midwest may remember the Coop Country Squire tires from the early 80s and earlier. They had a pattern similiar to Stu's pictured tires. I remember seeing a lot of those on 4wds in the 70s/early 80s that saw a lot of mud on ranches, etc. Not so much a highway tire-noisy. Those go back to the late 40s/early 50s, except the spacing was tighter between lugs, and the lugs had a wavy look to them.
#12
Super swamper makes a good radial in a skinny tire.
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#13
I am thinking about trying a set of these retreads, my truck seldom leaves the farm and is almost always on dirt. $91.00 per tire plus shipping.
http://www.treadwright.com/portals/0...arge/19_1_.jpg
http://www.treadwright.com/portals/0...arge/19_1_.jpg
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IIRC I don't think you'll find any traction 19.5s at these sources, and just me but I don't care for any of their 17s. Here's links to them. Stu
Military & Truck - Tire Brands
Truck and Military
M.E. Miller Tire
Lucas Classic & Vintage Tires, wide white wall, Pirelli Cinturato, Goodyear, Denman, Lester, Universal