The last option listed on my Heritage certificate is "whitewall tyres".
Mike Maclean-60 Sprite
> [Original Message]
> From: <Ajhsys@aol.com>
> To: <Spridgets@autox.team.net>; <JamesA@HI-TORQUE.com>;
<endicott@nashville.com>
> Date: 07/18/2000 12:10:29 PM
> Subject: Re: White wall tires
>
> In a message dated 7/18/00 2:02:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> endicott@nashville.com writes:
>
> << Funny you should mention white walls, last month I was visiting my
Mother
> and I found a box of old 35mm slides of my 62 Sprite that were taken in
> 1963. I didn't remember that it had white walls but it did, big wide
white
> ones. Since it only had 1800 miles on it when I bought it I am sure that
> the tires were original. >>
>
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> I just found an old pic of my first car, a '63 Sunbeam Alpine Series III.
I
> took the pic at a scenic overlook in Bucks County, PA, and the car
clearly
> has SNOW tires on it! This would have been somewhere around late 1967 -
> early 1968, and we were still pretty leary about those newfangled radial
> tires.
>
> Allen Hefner
> SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
> '77 Midget
> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
--- Mike Maclean
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