Buick Modified Stocker

[slusher]

Does the Buick Modified stocker have smaller tires then the rest or does all of them have the same size!

[bobss396]

All the same from what I have seen of the line.

[stavanzer]

Here is HPI Guy's video.

 

[LennyB]

Last I knows they all had the same tires.

[bobss396]

My brother built the Buick a few years back. He narrowed the kit tires and they looked a lot better.

[Horrorshow]

I used Plastic Performance Tires for my 66 Chevy Stocker…I closed the rear wheel wells too.

[Skip]

Jack, that Chevrolet Stocker looks great with those tires!

Carl, If I remember right, this series of Modified Stockers go back the Model Car & Science days. The tips that I seem to remember seeing was that they sanded the tar out of the tires to get shape, any of the asphalt and dirt tires back then were miniature compared to the AMT Slicks the Stockers came with. Their next trick was to take metal window screen, (which is probably next to impossible to find now) which they laid across a hot clothes iron and rolled the tires ending up with a decent waffle design on a forty-five-degree angle across the "tread" of the slick.

Now if I were doing this kit today, I would first take those tires and mount them on a tire truing lathe made out of a nut, bolt and a couple of washers and spin and shape those tires as much as the thickness of the carcass would take and not blow through (they are hollow), plus enough to get a tread siped into the tread of the slick. Probably would use an Xacto saw to do the siping, you might be able to use an Xacto knife to lightly carve the sipes into the tread.  I'm sure somebody on this board has crossed that creek a time or two and has some better ideas fresh on their mind to add.  Or else you could just do what Jack did on his sweet little Chevrolet Modified stocker and get some of those Plastic Performance Tires as well. Looking at those AMT Slicks today, I think they are a bit on the squared off side of things to make a good dirt or asphalt tire where the edges of the tread round out and blend into the sidewalls.  Another resource that just came to mind would be to check out Clay Kemp's YouTube videos he's starting to amass quite a few these days, they are all pretty interesting as well as informative. He might just have some tire mangling treatments for asphalt stockers.  The Fourth tire, inside Driver's front tire which I don't believe these kits ever included should be slightly smaller to set the stagger as the chassis on asphalt modifieds of this era were set up stiff enough that the cars tricycled through the corners lifting the inside drivers front tire halfway down the stretch, maybe never touching down on a really short track.

[slusher]

On 1/16/2025 at 8:05 AM, Horrorshow said:

I used Plastic Performance Tires for my 66 Chevy Stocker…I closed the rear wheel wells too.

What size wheels and tires did you use I have the 66 Chey stocker?

[Horrorshow]

On 1/19/2025 at 3:00 AM, slusher said:

What size wheels and tires did you use I have the 66 Chey stocker?

These are the wheels and tires I used. Bought from Mike’s Decals. There are several dirt tires the same size, Goodyear, Hoosier and McCreary.

 The M+H are the same size and are asphalt without tread.

All Plastic Performance rims will fit these tires .

[Radretireddad]

On 1/16/2025 at 8:05 AM, Horrorshow said:

I used Plastic Performance Tires for my 66 Chevy Stocker…I closed the rear wheel wells too.

That’s how I’m doing mine. The fenders openings are ridiculously large on those kits. Yours looks just right.