Who has the oldest tyre?

[lisbon_road]

I just got one of the tyres changed on my father's car which was a Michelin XZX dating from 1982.

 

I know a chap with an old Sunbeam Alpine, fine car, which has ZXs on it which must be much older.

 

Just wondered if anyone can beat my 1982 date.

[Squire_Dawson]

I shall be uploading some photos of tyreshite in due course...

[catsinthewelder]

When I got my van it had an ancient crossply on the spare wheel.

 

 

My oldest tyres are on my 40's Raleigh bicycle though,  possibly the originals they're a bit rotton and misshapen but I've ridden to work on them.  Unfortunately the back one has split on the sidewall but I'm going to try and glue it back together as I don't know where to get a decent replacement.

 

[500tops]

What size are those bike tyres? 26 x 1/38?

[Squire_Dawson]

If those are 26x1 3/8ths they are still readily available. Kenda are OK.

[Des]

See your Eighties and raise late Fifties.

 

 

[chaseracer]

Christ Des, please tell me that's not fitted to anything you use on the road!

[Taff]

I've got a set of 2nd hand white walls on my Galaxie, no idea how old they might be

[willswitchengage]

I run daily on my 1991's original tyres. To be fair though it's been garaged all it's life so hasn't had the same exposure to UV and moisture as most.

[Bren]

See your Eighties and raise late Fifties.

 

 

As my dad would say "there's nothing wrong with this."

 

My dad thinks a tyre with 3mm of tread is great.

 

In the past he has bought a car because it has good tyres.

 

A bit like swapping babies in the local crèche because the other child is in a better pushchair.

[catsinthewelder]

26x1 3/8 Dunlop Roadsters,  thanks for the advice,  will investigate.

[500tops]

26x1 3/8 Dunlop Roadsters,  thanks for the advice,  will investigate.

 

Michelin world tour would be a good looking replacement

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26-x-1-3-8-Michelin-World-Tour-Roadster-Tyre-in-Black-RRP-13-99-/141203051868?pt=UK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR&hash=item20e05b955c

[catsinthewelder]

Money now spent

[simmo]

Not mine and no photos, so not a proper claim. At my mate's dad's plant hire yard (used to his dad's) they had a pair of inflated Lancaster wheels which he donated (I think to Brooklands)

[Station]

My Metro GTi were on its original Camac tyres from 1989.

[Shep Shepherd]

The Volvo has one of its factory-fitted (May 1990) Pirelli P6000s on its spare wheel. Wouldn't fancy using it for its intended purpose, though.

[dugong]

I have a 1987 Dunlop D7 on an unused spare alloy. It was fitted to my first Piazza (D888 XJM). 

The Charade still has its factory fitted spare under the boot floor. 

[plasticvandan]

I had a reliant regal with an esso branded spare once! And the 1957 regal mk3 softop I had that had done 17k from new was still on the original,uncracked pirelli aereflex crossplies,still passed the mot too!

[trigger]

My Civic has a pair of Firestones on that have been fitted since 1984, I still have the receipt and even the newspaper cutting the last owner found the tyre offer in!

 

 

[RobT]

My 416 still has three of it's original Dunlop SPs dated 1989, previous old giffer managed to nurse them through 70k miles swapping from front to back at some point. I kept meaning to replace them but probably won't have the car much longer.

[wuvvum]

My first Austin 1300 was still on the original crossplies at the front.

 

Probably the oldest tyres I've ever driven with on the road though were the ones on the Vauxhall 10, which were on the car when it was laid up in 1968 (and weren't new then judging by the wear on them).  I didn't drive it far or fast though.

[Inspector Morose]

I bought an A40 mk2 in 1993 and it had Esso tyres on the drive axle. I think they were old. Still used it though and no kittens were killed.

[HH-R]

Access... that reminds me that a local garage still puts an advert in the paper with the Access card logo on it, can't remember seeing one of them in about 20 years!

[hauserplenty]

I drove a '65 Impala on its original (?) bias-plys. Until I got sideways in the rain* turning left...from a traffic light, no less.  Since brown interior didn't go well with the green color scheme of the car, I opted for smoothies with radial tires instead.

I've also driven a '77 Chevy camper van (a class B RV) on bias plys, and it handled like an armoire and rode as if they were made of concrete. It still had a spare with a tread pattern similar to Charlie Brown's shirt. I got radials for that one too: take-offs from a guy who was buying new rims. I met him at the tire store, they swapped out the rims, and I had them take the spare off and replace it with one of the other bias plays and off I went.

[Vince70]

I bought a 105e Anglia which was on its original crossply tyres back in the late 90s but going by what has already been seen on this thread I would class them as new..

 

But I drove around on them for a few months but decided to go all mod con and put some cheap radial tyres on the car as I didn't like sounding like a boy racer when taking corners at anything above 5 mph....

[Angrydicky]

The ones on the Atlantic when I bought it were ancient - easily mid-late 50's Avon Tourists. They were bald too. The Somerset has radials all round but has an ancient, perished crossply as a spare, which I really must get around to replacing.

 

My dad's 1937 Austin Seven Ruby came with two newish crossplies on the front but two ancient remoulds on the back. One of these was dated 1957, which was presumably when it was remoulded.

[scruff]

Do solid rubbers count?! 

[simmo]

Do solid rubbers count?!

That's got to be an innuedo open goal.

[forddeliveryboy]

Have an old boat which rides around on a trailer which was built by a local blacksmith in the fifties to last a thousand years... no indispension malarky but huge bearings, carefully articulated bottom arms and massive leafs. The tyres were originally Dunlops and marked 'A.D.V.', still in excellent order. Only over a pint one evening having brought the boat back from the Lake D did a few of us joke about it standing for 'animal drawn vehicle'. Did a little research and yes, that's what the acronym meant.