Lownslow Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 time to millenium up even the chinese are bored with black tires
rhs856 Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 Tell me that the smoke from a burnout matches the tires.
rhs856 Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 Ooooohhhhh yeah.... Now, can someone tell me why black tires make white smoke?!?
Qwit Pushin Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 It'll be VERY cold day before I ever 'dumb down' to this kind of silliness. Not even in scale will I ever resort to this. (I'm old and have earned the right to have such strong opinions.) : )
randx0 Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 That isn't a new idea I had yellow tires on my bicycle back in the early eighties.
SuperStockAndy Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 Hey, colored tires are the style now!
W-409 Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 Red smoke... Look at this Finnish Limousine. It has Chevy BBC, I believe.
Lownslow Posted December 16, 2011 Author Posted December 16, 2011 Ooooohhhhh yeah.... Now, can someone tell me why black tires make white smoke?!? Magic lol That isn't a new idea I had yellow tires on my bicycle back in the early eighties. i had blue ones on my last BMX im a lot happier now that theyre out for motorcycles
Guest Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 How about whitewalls then?? I guess those could work on the right tuner perhaps...
Greg Wann Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 Ooooohhhhh yeah.... Now, can someone tell me why black tires make white smoke?!? Maybe white tires will make black smoke! How come brown cows don't make chocolate milk?
moparmagiclives Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) If thats not enough you can always make your exhaust smell like rootbeer...I wonder if they can add that to the colored rubber too....I smell a new trend coming Edited December 16, 2011 by moparmagiclives
Tony T Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 Don't they have to colour the rubber for the tires to be black? Hopefully a fad that goes the way of fluorescent chassis lights...
Lownslow Posted December 16, 2011 Author Posted December 16, 2011 Don't they have to colour the rubber for the tires to be black? Hopefully a fad that goes the way of fluorescent chassis lights... yes, colored tires isnt really a fad its a option and im seriously considering it on this build. i would love a set of orange tires on my all black truck itll look like its rocking a pair of sneakers
Erik Smith Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 You know, it's kind of interesting and might work with the right build. Funny, though, how we try to make our models look like real cars and these make a real car look like a toy.
Casey Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 Don't they have to colour the rubber for the tires to be black? Hopefully a fad that goes the way of fluorescent chassis lights... They add carbon black to the rubber mix at some point, as raw rubber from trees is whitish in color. I skimmed over this article (the one mentioning colored tires were going to be available stateside soon), and IIRRC,the tires were not durable enough (compund too soft?) to make them viable as a street tire in the price and lifespan categories most U.S. buyers have come to expect. I think they're a great idea if they perform just as well as the traditional black tires. I don't see how colored tires are any different than customizing your vehicle with a different colored set of wheels or similar. Variety is a good thing, provided it's done with taste.
Longbox55 Posted December 17, 2011 Posted December 17, 2011 The carbon black isn't added to make the tires a particular color, but rather to improve the durability of the rubber for a longer wearing tire.
Junkman Posted December 17, 2011 Posted December 17, 2011 I remember that back in the Seventies, there were winter tyres with a blue coloured tread. My father had those on his Renault 16. I think they were Vredesteins. As for being bored with blackwalls - I am in the total opposite phase. After painting whitewalls on my model tyres for the past 35 years, I'm so sick and tired (tyred?) of them, that I do mostly blackwalls nowadays. Looking at old pictures and postcards and watching old movies proves me right. Contrary to what the restorers want us to believe, before the Sixties, hardly any cars had whitewall tyres. If you look at a postcard from the Fifties or earlier, maybe one out of ten cars has whitewalls.
Joe Handley Posted December 17, 2011 Posted December 17, 2011 (edited) Just wait till the "WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Brigade gets wind of this and starts to suing tire manufacturers and retailers to "prevent gang bangers from getting these and marking their territory by doing dangerous multicolored burnouts"................................again Edited December 17, 2011 by Joe Handley
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