for a brief moment in time, the Atlas Bucron was the drag racing tire to use, as there was nothing getting much traction in the way of stock non-wrinkle wall tires.
Why did Atlas not capitalize and go into drag racing tires and fame and fortune for a decade or two? I don't know. Probably someone else had more motivation and assets to devote to making even better drag racing tires, like Goodyear, Firestone, M and H, Casler, etc.
I sold a lot of Atlas tires in the early 1960's working for Standard Stations Inc, in Los Angeles. The Buchron was the premium tire in the Atlas lineup but it was a soft rubber tire with a wide tread for the times and namely made for heavy cars like the Lincolns. And they were expensive compared to other tires in the Atlas lineup. I can see the attraction for straight line racing but never heard of them being used myself.
ReplyDeleteI remember when Bucherons and Plycrons were the tire to buy. A small Humble Oil station in my tiny home town in S. Tx. sold these. Hot rodders loved them because they were very easy to spin and left a nice trail of rubber on the road. Unfortunately because of this they didn't last very long.
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