How Wide Whitewalls?

[itstom]

It's my understanding that 6.50 x 16.00 tires were optional on Fords in 1939. Can anyone tell me how wide the whitewalls would have been back then? Coker is selling 2.5 and 4 inch wide versions of this tire. Is this just a matter of taste?

Thanks, Tom

 

[Lawson Cox]

It would be the 4" at least. 2.5 are later incarnations.

 

[Dick]

Tom,
1940 EFV8 book says about 4"

 

[Lawson Cox]

Tom,
1940 EFV8 book says about 4"

Also, to be correct, the white should be on both sides, inner and outer until 1940, or is it through 1940?

 

[Ken Crans]

I have listed that Coker has a 3 1/2 in.wide white for the 600-16 and the 650 is 3 3/4. on a bias. Don't know about the size for the radial. My 650s really measure 3 1/2. Matter of preference. Ken

 

[itstom]

Thanks for the replies.

 

[38 coupe]

I think the pickups were the only Fords to get 6.50-16s. The cars got 6.00-16s.

 

[ford38v8]

Wow. All this guesswork. Guys, don't answer if you don't know the answer.
6.50 not available for Ford in 1939. 3.25" - 3.50" double whites or blacks. Tom, I answered your question on the EFV8 Forum.