Coker excelsior radial...

[39portlander]

Looking @ rim's/tires, is any one running the new excelsor radials from coker tire. Like what i see in the ads/web site. Would like some feed back from the barn before I $pend

 

[345 DeSoto]

I hate to poke dead things with a stick, but before I layed out upwards of $1,000 for WW radials for my 32, I did my homework...LOTS of it...for over a year. I just don't have the money to throw away on expensive parts (tires), and this being the case, I check into everything I'm looking to buy. There are PLENTY of Vendors out there selling the same thing, so when I hear ANYthing negative about someones product I steer clear...especially repeated negative comments. This being said, There were enough about Cokers radials to make me steer clear, and go to another Vendor. The Vendor I settled on had practically no, if ANY, negative comments on their tires, and were very competetive price wise. Coker makes there own tires, and the Vendor I purchased mine from uses brand new tires, and a proprietary process to vulcanize the WW on the tires. The tires are on the car in my Avatar..

 

[oldskool]

im running diamondbacks www radials on my 41 ford and i highly recommened them,they use brand name tires and vulcanize on the whitewall .the front are 205x75x15 2 3/4 white rears are 225x75x15 3 inch white...most other brand www are only 2 1/4-2 1/2 whitewall,diamondback has the largest www on the market...

 

[39portlander]

Thank's for the input gentlemen. I do like the ww's on your vehicles but on my 1/2T I'm going with a basic blk reg tire. I know what you mean by homework, the barn is a great resource along with my small library of book's and catalog's. Keep on restoring!

 

[36 flathead]

I used 195-80-16 on my 1950 f1. they are replacement size for this truck. got these on the internet , yokahma and bridgestone make them.

 

[sturgis 39]

I had radials on my model "a". Everybody said they make the car handle better. I bought coker bias firestones because i wanted the firestone name. The tires look better than the radials and i think it handles better. I run bias firestone tires on my 39 from coker and they are fine. I like the red dots by the valve stems better than wide whitewalls.

THAT IS A PICTURE OF JASPER AFTER PLAYING POOL OR CARDS IN HIS DOG HOUSE ALL NIGHT.

 

[X38]

Looking @ rim's/tires, is any one running the new excelsor radials from coker tire. Like what i see in the ads/web site. Would like some feed back from the barn before I $pend

Guys, this is the question ^^^

39portlander, you might want to flip over to the HAMB and do a search, all things Coker get thrashed out a lot. Or maybe do a specific question there about the Excelsior Radials like you have here. I know there are users there.

 

[Uncle Bob]

There seems to be some confusion here. I believe 39 is asking about the Excelsior Stahl Sport radial (?). If that's correct he's talking about a blackwall only tire that is radial, tall/skinny profile, with squared shoulders that give it the appearance of a bias tire.

For www I'm also a fan of Diamondback, have them on my '36, but that's not the subject here. I too would like to hear about actual experience with the Excelsior Stahl radial. I've looked at the HAMB and only seen one, brief comment about a user having 4k miles and liking them, but not much else substantive. Maybe I didn't use the right search phrase, but more info would be good.

 

[X38]

I've heard they've stopped making the Excelsior bias 'racing' and now have the Stahl Sport Radial, which to me looks basically the same and comes in a lot of diam. sizes. Real world appraisals of this radial version do seem a bit thin on the ground.