What kind of tires are these?

[mountaindewd]

I am wanting to build a gasser, probably similar to this truck and want to start collecting parts. Can anyone tell where I can get tires like these?

http://media.photobucket.com/image/chevy%20stepside%20gasser/Wupperspeed/GMCGasserTruck.jpg

[Ben]

Hey Les, if your refering to the rear tires, they appear to just be regular white wall tires with a wheel that is wider than what is supposed to fit that tire. Coker makes tires like that (in real life)

[MikeMc]

The 41 willys street rod has a set that should work...

[Longbox55]

Whitewall slicks, prehaps cheater slicks from Coker or M&H (yes, they're still around), as noted, mounted ona wheel far too wide. Tires look to be a 10.00-15. I can think of 3 current sources for them, Double Dragster, Double T, and the '62 Catalina, all from AMT. Also, the old Roth kits, original opening doors SWC '41 Willys, Orange Crate '32 Ford, and their assorted variants will have slicks similar to that.

On a side note, the truck in the picture is a GMC, rather than a Chevy.

[Modelmartin]

The Modelhaus makes excellent vintage bigs, littles, and pie crust slicks and all can be orered with one or both sides as whitewalls. These are the Cat's pajamas and highly recommended.

[mountaindewd]

Thanks guys! Cheater slicks? Would that be slicks with minimal tread for street legal use?

I am not necessarily looking for them to be on extra wide wheels, just have the pie crust/bias ply look on the slicks and the big whitewalls.

Andy, I checked out Modelhaus and they have no pics. Not very helpful when one doesn't know how to decipher their lingo of sizes, etc. Pie crust sounds like what I am wanting, maybe with enough tread to be street legal and the whitewalls.

[Longbox55]

Thanks guys! Cheater slicks? Would that be slicks with minimal tread for street legal use?

Yes, it would. With the old style cheaters, the tires had 2, sometimes 3, grooves around the circumference of the tread. Otherwise, there was no tread. So they were much closer to a racing slick than the minimal tread drag radials they use these days.