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[mike1972chev]

I have had these white wall, pie crust drag slicks for several years now,but do not know who made these ??? ( I was thinking maybe they were Strombecker perhaps???)

 

Anyone have a 100%  I.D. of these???

 

 

 

 

 

[Lone Wolf]

Mike, I believe those are model car tires from the 60's.

 

If I had to guess I would say they are Most likely AMT 1/25 scale.

 

Joe

[mike1972chev]

I believe you are right about being model car tires Joe,and I am thinking I have been a little stupid thinking such a hard tire would even be a slot car tire..  :/ I got them in a group of slot car tires/wheels and that might be the reason I was thinking they were slot car tires.

[Martin]

Hi Mike, I had this Lil Coffin kit as a boy but only have one tire that was left in a parts box.

 

So they could be from this kit?

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[Lone Wolf]

Martin, that particular kit and some other Monograms from that period used a separate ring molded in white that fit inside a recess in the tire.

 

And looked awesome by the way.

 

These are painted on.

 

I believe these are from the very early AMT kits from Around 1962 like the ‘32 and ‘36 Ford etc. usually molded in black.

 

These very early ones had no sidewall detail.

 

In later years they were Firestone Gum dipped.

 

Joe

[Martin]

Yes Joe, you jogged my memory. They did have "a separate ring molded in white that fit inside a recess in the tire" as you point out.

[Bill from NH]

The tires & slicks packaged in the black AMT 3-n-1 vintage kits were all very narrow. If we saw the width of the whitewalls in the photo. it might seal what they are.

[mike1972chev]

OK,they appear to be about 5/16" overall tread width and right about 1 3/16" overall diameter.(The I.D. of the slicks  is just under 5/8" )  What is throwing me off is that they are a SOLID tire. (I am used to all of my model kits having hollow cast tires in them . (Guess I am not old enough to have ever saw a model kit with SOLID tires in them ???  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bill from NH]

Yes, they look like AMT's tires. I built AMT kits starting in 1958. I was building them until the early 70s when I devoted most of my spare time to slot cars. I never saw an AMT tire that wasn't solid. The black plastic kits someone mentioned were early 60s. Later these kits were molded in a medium gray which made painting easier.

 

If you plan to reuse your whitewalls, remove the existing paint & redo them with a flat white enamel, such as Testors, which is self-leveling & quite durable. The white paint we used to use was an oil-based paint sold for painting balsa.