Question: It's me again...taking a poll!

[Mitch]

First, I want to thank you guys for all the info in my previous post! I'm going to go with the 255/60r15 FireHawks (I have already ordered them...I can only hope there won't be any rub issues)!

The other question was which do you favor--the raised White Letters or the Blackwalls? OK...what I did was in MY PICTURES is painted in little white marks to simulate what the raised letters would look like on my car. I know it ain't so good...but you get the idea.:L

So...which would YOU go with??? Thanks!!!

BLACKWALLS

RAISED WHITE LETTERS

 

[bill81vette]

I like the rwl's they give a sporty look!!!!

 

[killain]

I think any C-3 in almost any color looks 'Just Right' with the raised white letter tires. It a link with the past, when the Long living C-3's was the car! Plus I don't think you'll have any problem with the 60's. In my case, the 60's rubbed on the passenger side, But not on the drivers side. So maybe the right front fender might have been installed slightly too far forward or had to much material on the lower wheel house edge. I took a hacksaw blade, and just skimmed off a 1/4 inche of the fender edge and it never rubbed again. Plus when I finished repainting, you couldn't tell I had touched the fender at all. I'd go with the raised white letter !

 

[Z28ImpalaSS]

While I like the blackwall look on most cars, I like the RWL on your black vette much better. It really dresses it up and makes it stand out.

 

[Emtmike]

RWL

You can never go wrong with RWL on tires.

 

[82ColEd]

I got RWL for that reason, the BFG's are way outdated, but the RWL looks nice, IMHO.

 

[Vette79]

RWL's all the way!!!!!

 

[22229stingray81]

RWL's. With the huge sidewalls, you need something to break 'em up. Plus, it looks cool when the wheels go round and round :crazy


-Tatortot

 

[gmjunkie]

I'm a Raised White Letter man!! I had black walls on my 78 for a short time.It just didn't Look right!!

 

[paul67]

Here's my vote.

 

[shark454]

RWLs

 

[oceangal]

RWL's gets my vote too

 

[Brown79]

My vote

 

[Evolution1980]

Now it's a real poll thread!
BTW...WLR!!! It's the only reason I've kept 15" tires, and non-performance ones at that!

 

[stepho1975]

RWL's. With the huge sidewalls, you need something to break 'em up. Plus, it looks cool when the wheels go round and round :crazy


-Tatortot

I agree with that. Voted for RWL.

 

[wallyknoch]

A picture is worth a thousand words, so heres a few thousand pictures....

 

[Evolution1980]

A picture is worth a thousand words, so heres a few thousand pictures....

C1's and C2's look original and correct with blackwalls. If you put WLR on a C2, it instantly takes on a more racer-ish appearance, like the 63GS's. The same holds true for C4-C6's. (Recall the Corvette Challenge C4's or the C5/C6R cars)

All C3's look better with WLR, except if they have aftermarket rims larger than 15". Then they really have no choice of WLR, but that's OK because the car itself will look more like current C4-C6 models that we are used to seeing with blackwalls.
The C3's just have that awesome 70's racer look and the WLRs play nicely into that image.

Or another way that I look at it, take any early C3's that had the option of the spoke rims, put blackwalls on it, and it completely loses any semblence of appearing fast, IMHO. Similar to an old Nova driven by grandma and the exact same Nova except with cool mags and WLRs. Completely different looking car. One looks like grandma's car, the other looks like a racer. Vettes are the same way.

 

[bugman34202]

Red Stripe Tiger Paws. Those were the tires of the day. I believe they are still available.

Joe B.

 

[stepho1975]

C1's and C2's look original and correct with blackwalls. If you put WLR on a C2, it instantly takes on a more racer-ish appearance, like the 63GS's. The same holds true for C4-C6's. (Recall the Corvette Challenge C4's or the C5/C6R cars)

All C3's look better with WLR, except if they have aftermarket rims larger than 15". Then they really have no choice of WLR, but that's OK because the car itself will look more like current C4-C6 models that we are used to seeing with blackwalls.
The C3's just have that awesome 70's racer look and the WLRs play nicely into that image.

Or another way that I look at it, take any early C3's that had the option of the spoke rims, put blackwalls on it, and it completely loses any semblence of appearing fast, IMHO. Similar to an old Nova driven by grandma and the exact same Nova except with cool mags and WLRs. Completely different looking car. One looks like grandma's car, the other looks like a racer. Vettes are the same way.

I get what you are saying, but I don't think you can make a corvette look like a grandma car regardless of tire/wheel selection.

The way I see it, RWL give a race car feel. Black walls give a more sleek and sophisticated feel.

 

[Mitch]

Fellows, I went with the majority! RWL it is!

The pics aren't so good...it was getting dark and fixin to rain. All the white dots are from the camera flash. Half the time the flash won't even work! I'll try to get some better ones when the weather permits. When Firestone put the tires on it took my breath! The difference was night and day. What I'm going to try to show, also, is the clearance. Man, the tires barely cleared the fenders! Had they not, I WOULD have trimmed the fenders...because I just couldn't go back to Blackwalls after this! Oh, I also wanted to show the top fender to tire clearance, and how much better the car looks overall, ie., the space around the tires, the filling out of the wells, etc., but my yard is uneven ground...so I'll later find a more even surface to photograph the car.

P255/60R15s

With tires turned outwards--.25 inch clearance outside tire and near bottom back of front fender!

With tire turned inwards--.25 inch clearance on front outer tire and bottom fender!