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texan_idiot25 03-28-2009 02:20 PM

Look at my rubber! Indycar tires
 
I have no use but to stack them all fancy in my garage, but I picked up a pair of free Yokohama Indy racing tires that were ran in the 2001 Houston Grand Prix. Their HUGE!!! They fit a 15" rim, but the rears are almost 20" wide, and the fronts are close to 15" wide! Holy crap! To be in person it really puts things into perspective. Especially when you consider with the overall diameter of the tires. The Indy cars really don't sit up much over the tops of their wheels, and these things are short! Front and rear are both about the same diameter, and come in around 20" tall, less than 2 feet.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00319.jpg


The front tire compared to my 31" x 10.5" rear tire:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00321.jpg

And the rear compared to the same rear tire:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00317.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00318.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00316.jpg


And this is the rear tire compared to my spare, which is the same size tire that I run on the front tires, a 235/75 tire:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00322.jpg



http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...t25/526480.jpg

mustanglover 03-28-2009 02:49 PM

tex rollin F1 status.

BART 03-28-2009 02:52 PM

Cool. But I think you mean "Indy". Not F1.

texan_idiot25 03-28-2009 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mustanglover (Post 217661)
tex rollin F1 status.

I don't even think the front tires can fit on my rims, those suckers are wide.

mustanglover 03-28-2009 03:12 PM

would be like a Mexican low rider if they fit.

TheB1GDude 03-28-2009 03:23 PM

Wow those are sweet dude! You should just slap them ebay though... make some $$

texan_idiot25 03-28-2009 04:41 PM

I see no Indy car tires, but the signed Tom Petty "The king" NASCAR tires only go for like 70ish. I'll figure something for them.

24 Hours of Lemons bolted some race car tires bolted too the roof of a car as a penalty:
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...Roof-804px.jpg

BART 03-28-2009 05:26 PM

Be a true redneck race fan, fill them with potting soil and plant flowers in them!!!

texan_idiot25 03-28-2009 06:20 PM

You a redneck genious. I've been thinking of other useless uses besides looking at them all cool in the garage.

I could put them in my room, if I had room. They'd go nice with the bench-seat-couch from the CST10's original seat.

theoriganalRiD3R1967 03-29-2009 05:35 PM

make a coffee table!

texan_idiot25 03-29-2009 06:15 PM

I sprayed them down with amor-all tire cleaner, and their glass now! Also found a round piece of glass for a table-top, and I'll see how if fits in my room in place of another table. The glass is like privacy glass, Translucent, so I'll probably toss a light under it to have it light up some.

taiwanesekid05 03-29-2009 06:22 PM

I thought they burned those tires... Or do they only do that for NASCAR?...

texan_idiot25 03-29-2009 10:29 PM

Armor all shined:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00326.jpg

And stacked in my room:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00333.jpg

And with that little wall-traffic light, it alternates between orange and red (no bulb in green)
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00336.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5/DSC00337.jpg

Looks cool with crap on it now.

Sweed 03-31-2009 11:07 AM

You have to use rubbers that big?
Oh dear....
:o

mustanglover 03-31-2009 12:07 PM

lol sweed, yes.. yes he does....


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