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When choosing the correct tire for your project, you need to keep in mind a few things:
1. Comfort
Are you doing a lot of driving? If you are, then you might want to keep a taller tire with moderate air pressure. This is no problem for a Rat Rodor some Muscle Cars. A tire with a wide sidewall has some give to it, giving you a gentle ride. Plus most Rat Rods have fat whitewalls and need a taller tire to be able to show it off. Smaller sidewalls or "rubber-bands" as they are referred to are hard on comfort and drive-ability, but are excellent for handling and are mostly seen on Resto Mods and most Hot Rods. These wheels go from 17" to over 22'.
2. Performance
As we mentioned previously, taller sidewalls do not handle as well as a low profile tire. Most people in Rat Rods are not exactly tearing up the mountain roads at breakneck speeds. Nor is anyone really thinking about going much over 65 mph in a jalopy. Most modern Hot Rods and Resto Mods have modern suspension and or air suspension and with the proper wheel/tire set up can reveal Corvette-like handling.
3. Looks
And most important of all, how will my rust bucket look? Again, as we said before, fat whitewalls are traditional Rat Rod tires. Wrap them around a set of 14 or 15" steel wheels and you are set. Muscle Cars always look good with the factory wheels. For extreme originality, some go to the extent of getting the reproduction bias-ply tires. Although not as good as a radial tire, they serve the purpose, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to invest in some spare wheels with a good radial tire for consistent driving. Modified Muscle Cars also called Resto Mods are very popular with their use of big wheels, skinny tires. Many wheel companies are offering reproduction style wheels at a bigger size so as to improve the handling and not sacrifice looks. Hot Rods go to the extreme with large wheel sizes. These are usually high dollar billet aluminum wheels. Keep in mind, high dollar wheels wear high dollar tires!
I hope this is a good guide to get you started in the right direction for your quest to find the right wheel and tire combination.
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