Daft tyre names

[bunglebus]

Saw a Sincera too, but the owner was in the car

 

 

[bunglebus]

Another quality brand

[bunglebus]

Great Britain...no points 

[Jamie]

Look at these stunners! 

[bunglebus]

[rickvw72]

My recently acquired Accord has a pair of Royal Blacks on the back. They are shit beyond words. 
So rubbish they seem to not even feature on google. 

[leanycan]

HappyGallop, Luckyland... 2 of the stranger ones I have had. @Unclefester and @Robson3022 will confirm that haha.

[sierraman]

Where do you get these really shit brands from? I’ve never encountered them in any tyre places I’ve been to? 

[Unclefester]

5 hours ago, leanycan said:

HappyGallop, Luckyland... 2 of the stranger ones I have had. @Unclefester and @Robson3022 will confirm that haha.

Lmao we've had a good chuckle over happy gallop lmao

[sutty2006]

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

Where do you get these really shit brands from? I’ve never encountered them in any tyre places I’ve been to? 

Mail order. Or some back street tyre places will have them as a budget budget death ring

[Robson3022]

8 hours ago, leanycan said:

HappyGallop, Luckyland... 2 of the stranger ones I have had. @Unclefester and @Robson3022 will confirm that haha.

Lucky land man!!! That’s not where I want my tyres from!!!

[sierraman]

23 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

Mail order. Or some back street tyre places will have them as a budget budget death ring

Death tyres Direct!

[leanycan]

1 hour ago, Robson3022 said:

Lucky land man!!! That’s not where I want my tyres from!!!

Nooe definitely not. They were definitely Chinese death rings. 

[martc]

On 9/28/2020 at 7:33 PM, bunglebus said:

Saw a Sincera too, but the owner was in the car

 

 

Orium tyres are owned by Michelin, but in the 70's were in partnership with BF Goodrich, information regarding their origin is very hard to find - they are made in a 'European factory founded in 1935'. There's a video of the very modern looking factory on Orium's website and it's got the look of southern Europe to me - perhaps a former eastern bloc factory? Being in league with the filthy capitalists at Goodrich in the 70's suggests it could be somewhere in the former Yugoslavia rather than one of the 'harder' Peoples Republics.

https://passenger-car.orium-tyres.com/history/

 

[martc]

Looking for info on Orium I stumbled across another 'mystery' brand - Zestino Tyres. They make racing slicks and 'drifting' tyres - something I'm not sure I would want to advertise. 

ZESTINO is a new tire brand intended for motorsport – drift, rally, circuit. Design and production technology is used from Japan.

ZESTINO TIRES EUROPE is the exlusive importer and distributor of these tires to Europe.

Zestino are based in Slovakia, but the mealy mouthed wording used above implies that they could be Chinese...

[maxxo]

I imagine these "blacklion's" are of only the very highest quality*

don't look too healthy either

[morrisoxide]

Churchill brand anyone.  

Oh Yes!

This car also sported Mazzini tyres on the back.

[Soundwave]

41 minutes ago, morrisoxide said:

Churchill brand anyone.  

Oh Yes!

This car also sported Mazzini tyres on the back.

"We shall crash on the beaches. We shall fishtail unexpectedly on the landing grounds. We shall slide into fields, aquaplane in the streets. We shall fail to grip on hills. We shall never handle properly."

[UltraWomble]

The tyres that used to come as stock on Lada Riva's back in the 80's made me smile as they had Cyrillic writing on them - they lasted forever as they were super hard, had feck all  grip mind you.

Modern day Russian tyres have flowers on them.

[sdkrc]

Did we have the hand painted DELINTEs posted by @cort16 in the low cost, big liability thread?

https://m.facebook.com/marketplace/item/622051401774805

[willswitchengage]

10 hours ago, UltraWomble said:

The tyres that used to come as stock on Lada Riva's back in the 80's made me smile as they had Cyrillic writing on them - they lasted forever as they were super hard, had feck all  grip mind you.

Modern day Russian tyres have flowers on them.

That technology was pioneered I think on pushbike tyres first - Veredenstein's 'Flower Power'. Something to do with dandelions having rubber-like compounds in their roots.

[bunglebus]

[bunglebus]

Double points on this Focus

 

Smiling on the road, crying in a ditch

[martc]

55 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Smiling on the road, crying in a ditch

Absolutely brilliant.

OK yuz guys I've fitted your new tires (sic) - only 2 bucks per corner.

Later...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 9/30/2020 at 11:46 AM, bunglebus said:

Great Britain...no points 

Hmm, those must be the Roadstone brand tyres.... I think I have a full set of them on the diesel Borat at the moment.....

[Pieman]

On 10/9/2020 at 7:37 AM, sierraman said:

Where do you get these really shit brands from? I’ve never encountered them in any tyre places I’ve been to? 

Also....just how many tyre makers are there in the world??

 

[Pieman]

54 minutes ago, martc said:

OK yuz guys I've fitted your new tires (sic) - only 2 bucks per corner

I read that (as probably intended) in the voice of Clyde from the Ant Hill Mob, and I hope everyone else did too 

[martc]

1 hour ago, Pieman said:

I read that (as probably intended) in the voice of Clyde from the Ant Hill Mob, and I hope everyone else did too 

Well spotted - I always imagine that the rougher characters/workmen in US B&W films should speak like Clyde - some sort of Noo Yoik/Noo Joisy mash up.

[Andrew353w]

I recently had a flat in my Daf 33 & had to fit the spare. Although I'd fitted 4 new Firestone 135/80R13s about 18 months ago, I didn't change the spare. It looked O.K., it held the pressure, so I fitted it... Does ANYONE know if Serbia and Montenegro are known for their tyre manufacturing.....

 

 

[sdkrc]