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Originally Posted by 68bird
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.
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Frank, be honest, you aren't going to track that car if it is being daily driven. That age and that few miles = lots of things are going to wear out fast and break. I won;t even get into the hard steering parts. All those 32 year old rubber bushings are going to move around a lot and I doubt tire mileage will be the tire's fault. I've done my share of alignments on those cars and they were a PITA at half that age because of bushing issues and trouble with getting the rear adjustments to move. So I guess I'm saying don't worry about the tire with the longest mileage. It doesn't matter.
There are no 255/60/15 performance tires. No RWD car with 255/60/15s is going to be good in the rain or even moveable in snow. None are high mileage tires in the modern sense. I'll almost bet the BFGs, Coopers and MTs perform within 10% of each other in mileage, wear, handling & wet weather.
You don't paint letters! See comments about cheap looking. The point about letters is if you plan to mount RWL out then get a name brand, which at this point is BFG or to a lesser degree Cooper. There does not appear to be another brand name made anymore. If you are mounting them black then that makes decision easier.
I've seen 3 or so cars with those new MTs on them, and none of them were daily drivers or had a lot of miles. They may be great, they may suck. I've read/heard no useful feedback on them. But in looking at that tire I suspect it is no improvement over the other ones. All of which represent 20+ year old technology.
Decision is 1) looks and 2) cost. Anything else and you are over thinking it.
I'll add #3. Availability. I bet Cooper might win that one as to getting a replacement in 1-2 days.