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Old 03-26-2022, 09:41 PM
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Same view today.
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Old 03-27-2022, 02:19 AM
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Those were gold letter tires. Here is the unused spare.
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Old 03-27-2022, 01:56 PM
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Those were gold letter tires. Here is the unused spare.

The tires were always a mystery. We assumed that the engineering rebuild order would have specified a tire swap, so when we interviewed Dave Welday he gave us the opinion that the tires were simply crayon marked because the engineering rebuild order would have had a an approved tire substitution for track use directly from Chevrolet engineering-- But as we can see that's exactly what happened going from D all the way to E, the label on the spare shows that the tires were sourced locally from a tire dealer in Speedway Indiana...

Now looking at the comparisons look at the size difference on the sidewall size from #92 to the tires used on the rest of the firestone equipped cars...that's exactly what happened. Thanks Charley
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Look how gray that rally appears; not the bright metallic argent that we are painting them today.

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Look how gray that rally appears; not the bright metallic argent that we are painting them today.

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