it's amazing someone found this unused Firestone Hi-Type Cushion 32 X 3

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10243765926393474&set=gm.10162820245312481&idorvanity=119087132480

while walking by... I spotted this tire, nearly bad enough to let the air out of preemptively, so the car owner doesn't crash.

 

attention getting advertising

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/273

Goodrichs test trucks, note the one on the left has a couple BIG tires strapped down

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/543/

an early Holsman high wheeler towing a one wheel trailer! (Thank you Steve!) From Santa Monica to New York for the 1939 Worlds Fair

https://www.fayobserver.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2024/03/12/from-the-archives-along-fayettevilles-raeford-road-over-the-years/72884744007

this was how the solid rubber was attached to the rim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fgtF5vB90A

this is what a Holsman looked like from the front

A cactus grows inside a car tire on a road that runs parallel to the border wall between Arizona and Mexico

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2025/nov/06/view-border-wall-us-mexico-in-pictures

A racing car spare wheel from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Various cars raced each other through the British countryside as the opening credits rolled and the various cars had spare wheels attached to their bodies. 

This wheel is believed to belong to the blue replica Renault. 

The wheel is made of fibreglass and cast from one of the practical Goodyear tyres used on the car.

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/462/lot/179980/555-Racing-Car-Spare-Goodyear-Tyre-CHITTY-CHITTY-BANG-BANG-1968

you may have seen the "Cool things with wheels since 2006" under "Just A Car Guy" title of this blog, when the background photo is the right color... here's a new one to me! A peanut oil Single Tire Stone Grinder

I spotted this tire on a WW2 Jeep, I haven't noticed a Goodyear before that states it is "All Service"

To firefighters across California, the threat of tires to blow out in a fire, was essentially unheard of ... until June 14th, when Andrew Pontious, was killed while battling a front end loader fire, and a 7 foot tall tire exploded due to heat

https://www.firehouse.com/safety-health/news/55136306/exploding-tire-that-killed-los-angeles-county-firefighter-was-rare

https://www.firehouse.com/lodds/video/55089092/veteran-los-angeles-county-firefighter-killed-in-explosion

I'm probably not the only one that remembers the cages at SEMA for inflating earthmover tires safely to prevent one from exploding... https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/11/earthmover-tire-inflation-cage-proof-of.html 

skip the first 25 seconds, get right to it

A tire that exploded on a Delta Air Lines 757 on yesterday morning killed two workers and injured another in Atlanta.

The deadly incident occurred, per The Associated Press, while the workers were performing maintenance on wheel components in a hangar at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport around 5 am.

Delta's Boeing 757 jet had arrived from Las Vegas on Sunday night, and its wheel components underwent maintenance unattached to the plane, when the explosion occurred.

A 1996 paper in the SAE Transactions journal explored just how immense an airplane tire blowout can be. “A bursting tire is like an exploding bomb,” the wrote. “The energy released by a tire burst can be equated to dynamite.”

In order to “quantify the burst tire phenomena,” scientists purposely explored tires from an F-16 fighter jet and a B-52 bomber. The latter blowout released 1 million pound-feet of force, or two sticks of dynamite. (A B-52 has about twice the maximum takeoff weight as a 757.)

https://qz.com/delta-tire-explosion-atlanta-boeing-danger-1851633158

all of us who have ever flipped tires off rims, appreciate the home made gadgets that car guys and gearheads have invented to do the job in the garage, without a fancy tire mounting machine

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=230467052995503&set=pb.100080966302726.-2207520000

airless tire for a bsh hog... that will never wear out. Interesting concept of recycling tires for machine use when the tire isn't part of a suspension!

Happy Valentines Day

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=804397378397804&set=a.555348156636062

I just remembered that I want to find a new home for a pair of these... now, I wonder if there is anyone who would even want to buy them...

The other one is under some stuff in the garage, this one was looking the part of a factory original spare (well, close enough, I've only had the car to one or two shows in 20 years, and a half dozen cruise nights, likely no one ever looked in the trunk and appreciated the original looking spare)

Do you think asking 400 for the pair seems right? New remakes are about 400 each, a set of 4 of these (without rims) on ebay are 625. Plus shipping

Ever heard of the Whipcord tire? I haven't ever seen these before

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224512009048240&set=pcb.10224512013848360

a 1937 ad

https://www.ebay.com/itm/354729868514

Western Auto Supply operated approximately 1200 stores across the United States. It was started in 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri, by George Pepperdine and Don Davis. 

Pepperdine later founded Pepperdine University.

Western Auto was bought by Beneficial Corporation in 1961; Western Auto's management led a leveraged buyout in 1985, leading three years later to a sale to Sears. 

Sears sold most of the company to Advance Auto Parts in 1998, and by 2003, the resulting merger had led to the end of the Western Auto brand and its product distribution network.

Western Auto was known for its Western Flyer (bicycle) and Performance Radial GT (tire) brands.

Other 1975 Western Auto Garden Tiller Western Auto private labeled brands popular with consumers included "Davis Tires" (likely named for Don A. Davis, a Western Auto founder), "Tough One" Batteries, "Wizard" Tools, "TrueTone" electronics and "Citation" appliances.

Surviving on the tide of repair parts, and dying off when parts and cars became more reliable, dependable, and longer lasting, sometime around the early 50s, Western Auto started selling rifles and shotguns in its catalogues. 

Just like Sears, Montgomery Ward, and J.C. Penney, Western Auto's firearms were sold under a proprietary brand produced by reputable manufacturers, such as Mossberg, Savage, Marlin, Remington, and Winchester. 

Identical to standard production models, but simply the basic models produced by the various manufacturers. Firearms were one of many lines added to the store in a product diversification effort to offset the lack of car parts sold, and to get on the mail order catalog business bandwagon. By the end of the 1950s Western Auto was similar to a Sears store, equipped with a catalog order center. Auto parts comprised a small percentage of the company's sales by the mid-1960s, and had nearly disappeared by the 1970s. 

From 1991 until the end of the 1997 season, Western Auto sponsored NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Darrell Waltrip's Winston Cup race team and Al Hofmann's Funny Car in NHRA from 1994 to 1997

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Auto

interesting traveling salesman's display of a spring loaded tire on an oak rim, in the Bob Harrington Display Auction

https://www.proxibid.com/Salesman-Sample-Oak-Rim-w-Internal-Spring-Tire-Cut-a-Way/lotInformation/74874375

Tires are being checked, and run through baggage claim? That's weird

https://twitter.com/huntergsmith88/status/1612676792229441536

continental tires

 https://www.continental-pneus.fr/pneus/a-propos-de-nous/historique

getting the job done well, without paying some manufacturer for a part that they then charge shipping, handling, and taxes on - with something you keep out of the landfill

 

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/can-we-please-stop-hotlinking-pics/20411/page3717