Coker’s Firestone radials?

[Zedder]

Thanks Graeme! I know, I am getting pretty wimpy in my old age. My Son just built a gym in the basement, so maybe it’s time to hit the weights!

Who did you buy your tires from? Is there a Canadian supplier?

[NorCam]

Summit Racing or Jegs when they have their sales on. Right now, Jegs is 301.00 a tire but they have their sale on top of that. https://www.jegs.com/i/Coker-Tire/257/62490/10002/-1

Summit will match the advertised price if you call and ask for price match c/w discount and they also offer free shipping into Canada now. Jegs might have free shipping too? Ask and always pit them against each other and you'll win.

[SmallHurst]

You can go that route or you can go with the Goodyear Steelgard Tires that were OE on the ‘73-77 Corvette. Give me a call, as I can get any reproduction tire on the market. My cell is 816-654-3400.

[njsteve]

Jegs has a $100 off $1,299 purchase. So I think $301 doesn't quite hit that ($1204) without some other stuff in the cart, but they have $10 off $299, $20 off $499, and $30 of $699.

Free shipping. You could do four separate orders of one tire to get the $10 off $299 (total of $40 off) but they will probably hit you with 4 separate "handling charges" (EDIT: I just checked and no handling charges, so it might work to do 4 separate orders)

Summit will match their discount if you call them to order instead of online.

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by SmallHurst

You can go that route or you can go with the Goodyear Steelgard Tires that were OE on the ‘73-77 Corvette. Give me a call, as I can get any reproduction tire on the market. My cell is 816-654-3400.

I bought that set from Rusty for my 73 SD455 and they were very nice (and correct for the year, too)

[Zedder]

Thank you guys!

[Steve Shauger]

Rusty, is a great guy to deal with, and provides impeccable service. BTW he is also a sponsor on the site and encourage all our members to speak with him before buying reproduction tires!!

[markinnaples]

Rusty, Do you do any bias ply N50's?

[SmallHurst]

Yes, I do. Give me a call. 816-654-3400

[tom406]

I also vote for power steering, but I’ll go farther and suggest adding a Borgeson integral unit to avoid those leaky rams and numb feel. Then challenge yourself to make it look as “correct” as possible. A Ford collector I know (Mustangs and Fairlanes use same type of godawful factory power assist) has been doing this for the last couple of years. His cars drive awesome, don’t leak, and 95% of the people looking under the hood don’t notice anything amiss, and these are concours stock detailed under there.