With all due respect to Gary, and he has done an enormous amount of research on
the subject of tires, the Austin-Healey Concours Registry Committee is
considering changing its Policies and Guidelines as Gary has stated, BUT with a
15 year cut off on tires, not 10 as he has stated.
We expect to finalize this change in the next couple days and I will post to
the List the new policy.
Randy Hicks
Chairman, Austin-Healey Concours Registry
> On Nov 3, 2017, at 6:09 PM, editorgary at aol.com wrote:
>
> One comment suggested misreading -- In the new standards, we accept both
> bias-ply and radial tires for concours, without giving either one point
> differences, without deduction as long as they are the correct original
> narrow-width thread with tall sidewall size for the car -- 5.90x15 and
> 165x15. We have a standard deduction for any other tire size, we deduct for a
> non-matching spare, and we do not inspect cars with tires over 10 years old.
>
> The reasoning is that safety is paramount -- old tires can delaminate without
> warning, regardless of appearance, with life-threatening consequences -- and
> beyond that we prefer to see concours cars with appearance as close to
> original as possible with any part where the original brand is no longer
> available, and we do believe that all new tires from standard sources in the
> original sizes are safe and reliable for use in long-distance touring at
> highway speeds.
>
> Gary Anderson
> Los Altos, California
>
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