junkyardjeff Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 A local small hobby shop buys up collections so I have been grabbing all the thin slicks that no one else gets since they work great on 30s and 40s cars where a tall tire is desired and no modifications are needed. I have been getting some that are soft too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyardjeff Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 I have never seen these thin slicks before so I presume they are from the early to mid 60s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) The no-name "piecrust" slicks in the second photo (they're called piecrust because the sidewalls look like...crimped pie-crust) came in the vast majority of early AMT hot-rod and customizing kits....'32 Ford, '36 Ford, etc. The Firestones pictured above came in a hard compound in later AMT kits, and a soft compound for the AMT slot-car racing sets. One kit that had the Firestone slicks in the first issue was the Barris Surf Woody. Edited January 19, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyardjeff Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 When I started to build in the late 60s and early 70s they were not in the kits I built,some had the slightly wider versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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