I used to sell those back in the early sixties when I was an assistant manager at a Standard Stations Inc. gas station in West Los Angeles. Good tires, especially for heavy cars but they didn't get to mileage life of some other brands with harder compounds. And very expensive too. We sold the Atlas Grip-Safe which was a really great tire and cost about half as much as the Bucron.
I worked at Esso on St. Pete Beach and we couldn't keep 'em in stock. They were a very soft compound and everybody wanted them for the Pure Stock class at Sunshine Speedway. Street life was terrible and a lot of complaints. We were glad when the Plycron line came out. They billed themselves as "The Round Tire." Frequently, you didn't have to put weights on them. I was told they were trued at the factory.
I used to sell those back in the early sixties when I was an assistant manager at a Standard Stations Inc. gas station in West Los Angeles. Good tires, especially for heavy cars but they didn't get to mileage life of some other brands with harder compounds. And very expensive too. We sold the Atlas Grip-Safe which was a really great tire and cost about half as much as the Bucron.
ReplyDeleteI worked at Esso on St. Pete Beach and we couldn't keep 'em in stock. They were a very soft compound and everybody wanted them for the Pure Stock class at Sunshine Speedway. Street life was terrible and a lot of complaints. We were glad when the Plycron line came out. They billed themselves as "The Round Tire." Frequently, you didn't have to put weights on them. I was told they were trued at the factory.
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