In the mid fifties, Fomoco contracted with firestone for their tires. The OEM '55/56 tires offered during tose years were; 670x15 and 710x15's with 2-3/4" wide whitewalls (on premium cars). Last time I looked at Coker' s ads, they were still selling bias-ply duplicates of these using Goodrich molds
Now you can select radial tires made to the OEM measurements of the original tires (28" - 30" with 4-12" tread width) made by American classic and they have the 2-3/4" wide whitewalls too.
In the early 1960's most tire mfrs went to a narrow whitewall except for high luxury models like cadillac, Lincoln. Those cars were marketed with semi-wide whites but they were only 1-3/4" - 2" wide whites.
If you are buying a single replacement tire for your classic car, the vendor assumes you are getting the same manufacturer and tire part # you already have on the car. I would recommend doing that also since different brands are manufactured of different specs, have slightly different outside diameters and different tread patterns. All these will handle differently. Every mfr in the world recommends NOT mixing tires of different brands on the same car.
If you are replacing all your tires, just order four of the same brand and part # and you will get 4 tires with identical white-walls.
But do yourself a favor and don't buy Coker Classic tires. They are junk and wont last long at all.
Some years back, I put modern radial tires on my '55 Fairlane sedan. I put Vanderbilt P205/75R15's on the front and Firestone P215/75R15's on the back, but they have the exact same whitewall width. From a distance, the front and back look identical. Yes I broke the tire mfrs golden rule about mixing tires, but I would never put two different brands on the front as that might throw the alignment off and I wouldn't put two different brands on the back because that might throw tracking off, which would also affect 4-wheel alignment.
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