Help with 1/25 scale slicks

[berr13]

Hey guys, I need to pick your brains for some tires for a project.

I'd like to find a 1/25 scale slick similar to the ones provided in the old AMT '62 Bel Air stockers (Hayden Proffitt, Dave Strickler, etc), only narrower. Those have the sidewall design I'm looking for, but they represent a 9" width tire, and I want an 8 inch width. I can find the width I need in pie crust tires but that's not the sidewall I need. Any suggestion is welcome, and I'm open to literally any idea or source, or a kit source suggestion. PS, the project is a Revell '69 Nova, so wheel well space is a problem, and I can't use the kit tires because I want to use other wheels, and I'm thinking pie crust recap slicks were pretty much over by 1969. Anybody has any thoughts of ideas, I'm all ears...

[Ace-Garageguy]

What 1:1 tire height are you looking for ?

I have a pretty extensive parts collection, and I don't have any NON-piecrusts narrower than about 9.25 scale inches (measured across the tread).

I DID come across a set of hard-vinyl TWO-PART Goodyears (Revell, NON-piecrust) for 16" rims that could be modified into 8" widths by cutting off the tread section from the inner section, and assembling the tire with just the inner sidewall.

Like these: What class and engine is this build supposed to represent?

[John Pol]

Check out speed city resin they cast a lot of old type drag slicks.

John Pol

[crazyjim]

I have a ton of slicks from way back when. I have no idea what kits they came from. If you hit me with the measurements you're looking for, I'll see if I have anything close.

[berr13]

I'm not modeling any specific drag class or car, rather, more a circa 1969 kid's street racer. I used the two fours and headers, but mated them up to the almost-stock exhaust. I plan to use the Cragar mags from the AMT '66 Nova, and they seem to be closer to a scale 15" wheel. What I think would work best would be just a hair under 5/16" wide, and an inner diameter (best I can tell) of 5/8" across. What I have is about an inch and 3/8" tall, which works, but alas it's a pie crust tire.

[zenrat]

Lindberg slicks in their Dyno Don '61 Chevy are narrower than AMT slicks and IIRC are not pie crust so might fit the bill.

[Guest]

A lot of the old AMT kits had narrow slicks that should work under your Nova. Here's a photo of one that I painted a whitewall onto. I think they're 8.25s.

[Art Anderson]

Johan included cheater slicks in several of their car kits out of the late 60's, and Polar Lights included them in their '65 Coronet and '64 GTO kits.

Art

[berr13]

Whoa, you guys had some great ideas. What old AMT kits I own are buried pretty deep (in a hades hot garage) so I didn't get to that level in my search, and I never even thought of Johan or the Polar Lights kits. I did consider the Lindberg '61 Chevy tires, but they seemed a little small when placed inside the rear wheel wells. Thanks to all of you for your good thinking and assistance. What I wound up doing, though, was what I should have done from the beginning--I modeled my way out of the problem. I created a slightly higher stance in the rear with sheet plastic, and trimmed out the inside of the wheel wells, and was rewarded with a tight but perfect scale fit. After trimming I didn't have to go up too high, so the car now has a nice street cred rake. The model's almost finished, and when complete what I'll have is a Testors Bug Yellow '69 Nova, with white interior (modeled on the '69 Camaro option), two Carter four barrels, headers and abbreviated exhaust, Cragar mags and 9" slicks. Lord, I wish I could have gotten one of these in 1969 instead of a draft notice! Again, thanks to all of you for the help!

Jim

[zenrat]

Glad you solved your problem Jim.

I have 3 or 4 parts boxes of tyres and wheels and it still seems to be the hardest thing to sort out when building something not out of the box.

Not just what looks the part but which rims fit which tyres and then will the whole shebang fit the suspension and into the hole.