Time For 7" Tires Again?

[jim powers]

yeah right 7 inch tires on todays stockers, what could possibly happen

[Ed Wright]

I don't have a Stocker, so it's none of my business. But, I wonder what would be the point? Wider tires are safer on these fast Stockers we have now.

[Jeff Teuton]

Atlas Bucrons !!!!! That was a while back. For it's day, 3.5 or 4 " wide and didn't live long. Who else remembers them?

[older racer]

bucrons were first tires we ran back in 65. I remember , most heavy hitters used them, they were soft, for their time was a good drag tire. chevron stations had them is stock , lol. BTW , you could run em white walls or black walls, lol

[Chad Fergen]

Originally Posted by older racer

bucrons were first tires we ran back in 65. I remember , most heavy hitters used them, they were soft, for their time was a good drag tire. chevron stations had them is stock , lol. BTW , you could run em white walls or black walls, lol

That is an awesome memory! I wish I could have been there!

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Chad Fergen

That is an awesome memory! I wish I could have been there!

I ran Caslers on my 65 Plymouth 426 Street wedge back in 1965. Never spun at Capitol or Aquasco. Other racers said 75 & 80 Drag-O-way was about the best biting track in the D.C. area back in the day. Several used Bucrons and Caslers in the day. The only M&H tires I saw were on the S/S or A/FX cars.Track prep back in those days was zero other than sweeping with a broom or rosin when they had a match race going on.

[Dwight Southerland]

The first "race" tires I ever bought were JC Penney 7" cheater slicks.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Jeff Teuton

Atlas Bucrons !!!!! That was a while back. For it's day, 3.5 or 4 " wide and didn't live long. Who else remembers them?

We are old Jeff! LOL. Atlas Bucrons are what I started on. I latervran the 7" Firestone slicks on 4" wheels. Keystone gave 4 wheels to class winners at the Spring Nationals, at the old Dallas track (actually in Lewisville) one year. Giving everybody two 4" for the front, two 6" for the rear. I got four 4", those Firestones hooked harder on 4" wheels. The local Firestone race tire sales guy (John Calb) just shook his head when he mounted them.
They wrinkled so bad they pinched the tubes. Got tired of patching tubes, and ran them tubeless. About a MPH faster tubeless anyway.
Good old days. LOL

[SStockDart]

We didn't need a tach with those 7" tires......you shift when the car was going straight.