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.