And the great recall of the Firestone 500's way back when.... Exerpt; The company will be obliged to recall as many as 7.5 million of the tires, primarily those produced between March 1975 and May 1976. In addition to the 500s, the recall includes similar tires sold as original equipment on General Motors cars and those marketed under other brand names, notably Montgomery Ward's Grappler 8000 and Super Shell Steel Radial. Firestone will have to replace them with its new and presumably improved 721 radials. It has also agreed to offer 50% discounts on the new tires to anybody who trades in a Firestone 500 model that was produced before March 1975.
So they gave you 721's and then THEY got recalled too.
We had those on a '75 Pontiac Ventura. Four of them shredded, one at a time and replaced under the pro-rata value as they failed. I had a stack of receipts and a real dislike for Firestone by the time they issued the recall. When the recall happened, I sent the entire stack of them to Firestone and ended up getting all my costs reimbursed. Unfortunately I didn't get the day lost on a vacation or the cost of the aggrevation of changing tires on the side of roads as they shredded.
