'69 Tire question

[Jeffrey S.]

On a '69 spare tire (Firestone white stripe) was there ever a paper label on the tread that described the tire as would be seen on a replacement tire? Also was the stripe coated with the blue protective tint? Thanks for your help.
Jeff

[Dave S.]

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On a '69 spare tire (Firestone white stripe) was there ever a paper label on the tread that described the tire as would be seen on a replacement tire? Also was the stripe coated with the blue protective tint? Thanks for your help.
Jeff

Jeff,
From NOS spares that I have seen there has been no paper label but the white stripe does have a blue protective coating. I think the paper label was used on service replacement tires.

[Patrick H.]

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Jeff,
From NOS spares that I have seen there has been no paper label but the white stripe does have a blue protective coating. I think the paper label was used on service replacement tires.

Agree.

I'd love to find some original style blue-green tint to re-apply to my tire after the previous owner scrubbed it off thinking it was "mold."

[Mark D.]

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Agree.

I'd love to find some original style blue-green tint to re-apply to my tire after the previous owner scrubbed it off thinking it was "mold."

What were ya doing during chemistry class?

Polyvinyl alchohol, food coloring, your wife's blender and a sponge brush.

[Greg L.]

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Pat I might be way off on this but I seem to remember someone saying they used dish soap to re-apply the tint. Just pick the color, brush it on and let it dry.

[Patrick H.]

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What were ya doing during chemistry class?

Polyvinyl alchohol, food coloring, your wife's blender and a sponge brush.

Only NOS dye for me, dude.
No repro stuff.

[Joe L.]

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Jeff,
From NOS spares that I have seen there has been no paper label but the white stripe does have a blue protective coating. I think the paper label was used on service replacement tires.

Dave and Jeff------


I agree; paper labels were used on SERVICE tires, not factory tires.

[Terry M.]

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The early calendar year 1969 DOT tires had a sticker with the DOT disclaimer printed on it -- until the tire manufacturers changed the molds to include the DOT information on the sidewall. I am not sure if that label was paper or plastic, as I have seen only a couple. Of course that is a different label than we started talking about here.

[Jack H.]

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Hum, I've seen/judged ONE of these rather rare cars, Terry. It was back in '98 at the UK Chapter's kickoff Flight meet.

The owner was from Belgium and his car was a '68 built around the 2nd week of January, 1968. He'd never had the tire tub down and we had to show him how to lower the spare carrier and extract the tire...

Chuck Berge and Vinnie Peters were hanging around with me and a few other Yanks when that tire first saw daylight. It had TWELVE FEET of dust on it!

The owner was VERY embarrassed and dove onto the ground with a shop towel and rinse to clean the tire. I restrained him and had a fellow RMC member fluent in German explain there were details here that probably should be preserved.

Yep, shore 'nuf the inner side wall had a paper label with over lapping clear mylar providing the tire's DOT compliance/tracking number. Point is this was a '68 car and this thread appears focused on '69 cars. I'm pretty sure tire makers had the tooling complete for embossing the tire sidewalls by the 1969 model year...

[Patrick H.]

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Hum, I've seen/judged ONE of these rather rare cars, Terry. It was back in '98 at the UK Chapter's kickoff Flight meet.

The owner was from Belgium and his car was a '68 built around the 2nd week of January, 1968. He'd never had the tire tub down and we had to show him how to lower the spare carrier and extract the tire...

Chuck Berge and Vinnie Peters were hanging around with me and a few other Yanks when that tire first saw daylight. It had TWELVE FEET of dust on it!

The owner was VERY embarrassed and dove onto the ground with a shop towel and rinse to clean the tire. I restrained him and had a fellow RMC member fluent in German explain there were details here that probably should be preserved.

Yep, shore 'nuf the inner side wall had a paper label with over lapping clear mylar providing the tire's DOT compliance/tracking number. Point is this was a '68 car and this thread appears focused on '69 cars. I'm pretty sure tire makers had the tooling complete for embossing the tire sidewalls by the 1969 model year...

And the photo?

[Jack H.]

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Turn back the calendar to 1998, buy a plane ticket to England, and bring your camera along!

I'm groussing today, Pat. Getting my '71 ready for the National Road Tour yesterday, we were topping off the A/C system when one of the factory original hoses from the compressor let go with a decent sized rip and R-12 went flowing freely onto the shop floor.

Today's job is to figure out whether I bite the bullet and install a service replacement manifold assy (bye bye factory originality) or try to replace/repair the factory original A/C manifold.

RATS! Can you believe that after +40 years and 300K miles, critical parts are wearing out?

Seriously, if I remember correctly, Pat, there was a picture of one of these labels either put up here on the DB and/or in a Corvette book (MF Dobbins????).

[Terry M.]

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Hum, I've seen/judged ONE of these rather rare cars, Terry. It was back in '98 at the UK Chapter's kickoff Flight meet.

The owner was from Belgium and his car was a '68 built around the 2nd week of January, 1968. He'd never had the tire tub down and we had to show him how to lower the spare carrier and extract the tire...

Chuck Berge and Vinnie Peters were hanging around with me and a few other Yanks when that tire first saw daylight. It had TWELVE FEET of dust on it!

The owner was VERY embarrassed and dove onto the ground with a shop towel and rinse to clean the tire. I restrained him and had a fellow RMC member fluent in German explain there were details here that probably should be preserved.

Yep, shore 'nuf the inner side wall had a paper label with over lapping clear mylar providing the tire's DOT compliance/tracking number. Point is this was a '68 car and this thread appears focused on '69 cars. I'm pretty sure tire makers had the tooling complete for embossing the tire sidewalls by the 1969 model year...

I think I remember the photo you reference in your post below to Patrick. Me thinks I missed the DOT introduction by a year in my post above. Kind of you not to dig that in to me. I can remember the picture, but not the right year. That is also my excuse to the wife when I miss the wedding anniversary too.

I can't remember the year of the car (it was an early C3) at St Charles Illinois. When the spare came down -- all dusty and dirty like you describe -- there in yellow chalk for all of us to see were the words: "F(*% YOU" on the clearly untouched spare. Judges came from all around to see. And if I had a picture Patrick, I wouldn't post it. Did you get a picture?

[Pat M.]

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Agree.

I'd love to find some original style blue-green tint to re-apply to my tire after the previous owner scrubbed it off thinking it was "mold."

I'm pretty sure I got some from Kelsey after I regretted taking it off my repo spare tire. They sent me a little plastic bottle of the stuff for free years ago, and I still have most of it.

[Patrick H.]

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I think I remember the photo you reference in your post below to Patrick. Me thinks I missed the DOT introduction by a year in my post above. Kind of you not to dig that in to me. I can remember the picture, but not the right year. That is also my excuse to the wife when I miss the wedding anniversary too.

I can't remember the year of the car (it was an early C3) at St Charles Illinois. When the spare came down -- all dusty and dirty like you describe -- there in yellow chalk for all of us to see were the words: "F(*% YOU" on the clearly untouched spare. Judges came from all around to see. And if I had a picture Patrick, I wouldn't post it. Did you get a picture?

I think that Flyboy did but I, purposely, did not.

[Jeffrey S.]

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Thanks all for your responses. I just purchased an NOS Firestone tire (it hasn't arrived yet) and it has the paper label as you would find at a tire store or at the dealer. I am using it for my spare for Novi judging and I will carefully remove it and save it.
Jeff