Street Racing Tires - Need I.D. help

[Mike Dobrzelecki]

Continuing my research on my brother's Chevy 1956 210 Wagon racing machine, I received another set of photos from my brother, which answered  some questions, but raised others.

I'll limit this topic to questions on the tires he used, and what would be a good source for these in 1/ 25th scale.

My brother radialized the rear wheel well fender area to allow installation of wider street tires and slicks.  After showing the photos to some car modeling buddies, they appear to be similar to the Protrac Street-racing tires tires, such as a 275-60-15 with a 9.7 inch tread width, or could be 9.5 inch. My brother he's pretty sure that they were less than 10" wide - anything more than 9.7" would have been too wide for the car.  You'll note that he has deep dish Cragar mags on these rear tires. 

My Google search did not turn up any likely after-market selections.  Any kits out there with these tires?

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 20, 2019 by Mike Dobrzelecki
corrected typo

[peteski]

About 15 years ago, IIRC, MRC (Model Rectifier Corp.) sold several wheel/tire sets and some of those tires (Mickey Thompson?) looked like those tires you are looking for.

Edited May 22, 2019 by peteski

[afx]

[Deuces]

Those rear tires are in the amt '70 Baldwin Camaro kit along with the deep dish Cragars....

[Mike Dobrzelecki]

Thanks to Peteski (gotta be Polish, too) Deuces and AFX for your responses.

 

[peteski]

13 hours ago, Mike Dobrzelecki said:

Thanks to Peteski (gotta be Polish, too)

 

Sure am! 

You're welcome Michał.

[Greg Myers]

On 5/21/2019 at 5:13 AM, afx said:

these had some really nice wheels, but the tires were pretty weird. the sidewalls were flat, perpendicular to the tread, not very realistic. a real shame too, as they were cast in a very realistic rubber.

[stavanzer]

Not to mention, that they are now Stratospherically Priced "Un-Obtainium". I've chased a few of these sets online, and they now sell for truly stupid money.

[Mike Dobrzelecki]

I managed to get one of these MRC sets at a reasonable price, but only before I saw the Baldwin choice, which I'm in the process of obtaining.

 

Edited May 24, 2019 by Mike Dobrzelecki

[peteski]

On 5/23/2019 at 10:47 AM, Greg Myers said:

these had some really nice wheels, but the tires were pretty weird. the sidewalls were flat, perpendicular to the tread, not very realistic. a real shame too, as they were cast in a very realistic rubber.

Those sets also came with other types of tires, but the MTs (even though a bit odd looking) to me seem to be the best representations of what Mike is looking for.