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Originally Posted by masraum View Post
I can't imagine trying to get "performance" 12" tires. These days anything remotely performance oriented is tough to get it 14" and 15". I have to assume that even going the specialty/designed-for-vintage route when talking about 12" is tough.

It's hard to imagine "175/70R12" being considered performance. I think I've had econoboxes back in the late 80s that ran on 175-75R13 and 175-80R13. And the only "performance" aspect of them was the lack of performance capability.
Indeed, it's all relative. Let me clarify the word "performance" in this context. It means getting a tire wide enough to sort of match the previous Goodyear Rally Special tires that were on there previously. Nearly everything else is a 145 or so width tire which is basically a pizza cutter. I believe that these 175 tires are off of a Ford Cortina?

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Old 10-27-2022, 01:01 PM
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