What do you guys perfer, white letters tires or no white letters?

[Back N Black]

I just got a new set of tires and i'm not sure if i like the white letters showing or not? what do you guys perfer?

[Ghoste]

I find that I like either version equally and that it depends on the rest of the car which I think looks better.

[FLG]

Depends on the car. Pro touring with bigger rims and more low profile tires...no. Old school cragars nice wide tires...heck yea. I won't buy tires unless they have white lettering.

[twodko]

For me it would be no white letters.

Tom

[bull]

RWL as long as they're solid, not outlined.

[HITMAN 149]

same here... it all depends on the car & whats size wheels & tires your running....

[69RT3X9]

Great looking car! I just checked out your restoration pics and now I am even more impressed!

My vote would be for the white letter tires!  I think it looks cool and provides a nice contrast to black steel wheels.

I also have a triple black 69 R/T with red tail stripe.  My wheels are original 14's" with white lettered Cooper tires and the original option code W18 wheel covers (simulated magnums).  My future plans are to upgrade my wheels to 15" Magnums with red-line tires.

[WHITE AND RED 69]

White letters just make the tire look better on smaller wheels to me. On larger wheels though it doesnt look right. 

[Cooter]

If I were going for the "NASCAR" look, then RWL tires are "ok", but on anything that I'm not trying to retro back to the late 70's, I prefer blackwall...

Racing tires with RWL on BOTH sides doesn't count..

[68coronetGLwannabe]

I prefer the RWL.  

[A383Wing]

I got OWL on the Daytona & cream 66 Charger, RWL on the black 66 Charger....the other 7 cars have blackwalls

[ChgrSteve67]

I think it also depends on what the RWL say.

[John_Kunkel]

IMHO the quickest way to ruin the looks of an otherwise beautiful car is to have RWL's showing. Kinda like a visual form of fingernails on a chalkboard.

[68X426]

Kinda like a visual form of fingernails on a chalkboard.

You nailed it.

I vote black. Very rarely do the letters look like they belong there.

[mikesbbody]

For me it would be no white letters.

Yup, me too.

[TylerCharger69]

raised white letters....the solid ones

[Belgium R/T -68]

Translation please, RWL and OWL.

Per

[resq302]

Aww, hell,  I say go with white walls.    Honestly, I have the whitewalls on the bias ply tires and for my radials, I have raised white letter BF Goodrich Radial T/A's.

RWL = raised white letters
OWL = outlined white letters

[russg]

debated this myself, on my color combo with black wheels, I liked the white letter side.  Mine is no museum piece though...

[Big Sugar]

I like them Both ways...So on the left side letters showing...on the right side not.




Ron

[71ChallengeHer]

RWL for me 

[oldcarnut]

If I were going for the "NASCAR" look, then RWL tires are "ok", but on anything that I'm not trying to retro back to the late 70's, I prefer blackwall...

Racing tires with RWL on BOTH sides doesn't count..

I like the RYL  but otherwise depends on the RWL mfg. lettering style as some of them don't look so good to me.  Speaking of the NASCAR look,  I should be getting my kidney bean rims in this week and was wondering where they sell the big Goodyear paint stencils. I wish they still sold those yellow letter tires.  The white ones in the pic had a bad stencil job done on it.

[BIRD67]

It depends on what the lettering says; Goodyear, Firestones and BFGs look great with white letters, but I feel that the el-cheapo tires just make a cqar look..cheap.. But My favorite would still be clasic Bias Ply redlines

[OttawaCharger]

I'm thinking RWL for your car.  But solid white, not that outlined white lettering that some tires have 

[bull]

Most guys that are about 33-56 years old like RWL tires. Younger and older, nope.

[flyinlow]

Craggars flashing in the setting sun, RWL giving people with Epilepsy fits, silk shirt unbuttoned,gold chains,platform Boogie shoes and my 70's Babe beside me.....

Headed for the Disco

[Back N Black]

This is what i came up with, i think it looks good. I hope i can get one season out of the rear tires. 

[FLG]

This is what i came up with, i think it looks good. I hope i can get one season out of the rear tires. 

NICE!!

If you keep them mounted like that you will probably get years and years out of em 

[tan top]

to be honest  , RWL look ok , but would rather  just black tires , although ,  would have Goodyear RWL 

[chargerman67]

Depends on the brand of tire to me 

[oldcarnut]

This is what i came up with, i think it looks good. I hope i can get one season out of the rear tires.  

NICE!!

If you keep them mounted like that you will probably get years and years out of em  

Kinda reminds me ofthe fad way back when the import guys put those 12"-13" tires on rims that had all the offset pushing them out the side of car fenders roller skate like.

Tire and rim combo looks good 

[jaak]

I usually dont like white letters showing, every now and then I see a wheel/tire combo and think it looks good with the RWL's out, but for the most part I like black tires. When I bought my 73  it had a new set of Cragers with Futura RWL tires, it looks ok, but when the tires get replaced, It won't have RWL's showing. (don't want to pay to have my tires broke down/re-mounted and balanced.)

Another 'pet peeve' of mine too, is that shiney shit that goes on tires. Anywhere you have a car cleaned (even some that do it themselves) spray tire dressing to make the tires shine. I just like clean/dry tires on any vehicle. Tire dressing looks so tacky.

Here's whats on the front of the '73.....15x8 Cragers with 235/60/15 tires.....


The rear......15x10 Cragers with 295/50/15......


Jason

[resq302]

Jaak,

I agree with the fact that the tires should not have that greasy look to them but more of a natural rubber shine like new.  Ive found that there is a product out there that protects the rubber and gives it a natural shine, almost a low gloss shine.  I want to say the brand or the product is called No Touch but I will have to double check it.  I found it at Walmart, PepBoys, etc.  It is not greasy or will not ruin your tire brushes as with stuff like Black Magic Tire Wet and Meguiars Tire shine, they have the coating come off and stick to the tire brush making the brush useless.

[FLG]

Jaak,

I agree with the fact that the tires should not have that greasy look to them but more of a natural rubber shine like new.  Ive found that there is a product out there that protects the rubber and gives it a natural shine, almost a low gloss shine.  I want to say the brand or the product is called No Touch but I will have to double check it.  I found it at Walmart, PepBoys, etc.  It is not greasy or will not ruin your tire brushes as with stuff like Black Magic Tire Wet and Meguiars Tire shine, they have the coating come off and stick to the tire brush making the brush useless.

Not only that but have you seen what RWL tires look like after a few miles with that crap on? The RWL looks more like RBL after awhile...nasty. Never EVER put it on!

Just some soapy Brillo on the RWL tires and it gets em nice and clean.

[resq302]

Aww, cmon Frank.  Youve seen my daily driver truck!      They don't look that bad.

[Nacho-RT74]

RWL for me 

+1

and Indy 500s are to me one of the best options for that, right at a side of BFGoodrichs Radial T/A and Goodyear Eagle GTII

[teddy1500]

I wish I had a pic, but I've got bf goodrich on the charger, white letters in on the front, and white letters out on the rear, kinda gives it an old school drag racer look.

[472 R/T SE]

To me it's all depends on the wheel, size & car color combo.

New member over @ the Registry posted his white car.  I think it looks great w/ no rwl's showing.  Also notice the drums are painted body color.  I used to do that too, learned if from my Father.

[69DodgeCharger]

No white letters. Blackwalls all the way

[A383Wing]

OK...here's mine...RWL are on the car...I had a photoshop done to change it to blackwalls...

your thoughts? 

[stripedelete]

Black walls.   

Take the stripe off the car and it's RWL.

[472 R/T SE]

OK...here's mine...RWL are on the car...I had a photoshop done to change it to blackwalls...

your thoughts? 

No rwl's.  That's the 4 gear car correct?

[A383Wing]

OK...here's mine...RWL are on the car...I had a photoshop done to change it to blackwalls...

your thoughts? 

No rwl's.  That's the 4 gear car correct?

yea...it's a 4spd car, with dual quads, actually, both my 66 Chargers are factory 4spd cars.  The cream 66 is still mostly original

[69bronzeT5]

I have RWL on the Duster. Before I had blackwall tires. The Charger will be getting low profile tires with no white letters.

[troy.70R/T]

I like RWL Or the RYL on some cars. Just plain black wall tires are ok on most cars. I hate the outlined white letter tires.