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Originally Posted by BonzoHansen
Are you mounting them RWL out or blackwall?
What kind of quality is the car? Is it going to be sold soon?
The MT are a new tire and I don't know too many people with them. So no experience good or bad.
I'm not in love with BFG TAs anymore, I'm seeing quality issues. Coker might be making them now but I am not sure. But they are still a good looking tire and a name brand.
No offense, but if you put mastercrafts on a vette it screams POS. When you see a cheapo tire on a car you assume the rest of the car is cheapo too and full of cut corners. Harsh but true.
Coopers get a credible pass on a street car as they are a very decent tire. If you are mounting them BW I'd look twice at them.
If Firestone had not just killed their 500 line I'd have told you to go buy those. But you're like 6 months or so late on that. You can try and see if STS has a set on the shelves somewhere.
All that said....RWL tires are what they used to call 'cosmetic performance'. Meaning they look fast but are no more performance than grandpa's whitewalls because they are the same tire. IMO the decision points on RWL tires are 1) looks and 2) cost. Buy the ones that look good to you you can afford.
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The car is in between a daily driver and car show car (she's been a Garage Queen up until recently with just over 40,000 miles on the odometer).
I'm using her as a daily driver to and from work till I get the Firebird up and running (should be ready by the summer, barring no mechanical complications).
So she's going to be my daily driver/lite use track toy for now. So I'm more focused on the performance and wear life than I am about the way it looks on the car. Plus I can always paint the raised letters if I really want to.
I'm leaning more towards the M/T's, but I heard they suck in the rain.