If you are going to store your car for the winter with the tires on the ground how should you prepare the tires? more or less pressure in them? they are 14 in tires. Thanks.

Just regular press.
Letting them sit all winter will not hurt radials.

Correct, you really only need to worry about flat spots if they are Bias ply.

(ps. alot of members online this morning eh?)

I have wide oval red-stripe F70-14 repro bias so I push the car forward and back in the garage periodically. It still thumps a bit for the first few miles on the first drive.

Jim,
How does the car handle with those repro's? Trying to decide on a set of tires.

Jim, since I drove the car 95% of it's 178,000 mile life on either Firestone Wide Ovals or Goodyear Polyglass, I have no basis for comparison. It was always, "the way it handles". I do it now for originality look and never push it too hard anymore because I want it to last past my lifetime. I drove it on it's factory original KM option rayon radials option but I neither remember back 37 years ago or believe that the 60's radial technology had any relationship to today's tires.

I've driven a few hundred cars in my lifetime and my '68 has it's unique characteristics that no other car has had.

If we lived closer, I'd let you put them on your car for a test drive.

Thanks Jim. I argee on the uniqueness of the ride. One thing is the cornering. How they will 'power slide' around a corner. I try that in my 2nd or 3rd gen and it's 'ditch bound'. I try it in my cousins Vette's and they are in the ditch. I tried it in a Porshe and it went into the ditch. The only time I've ever had a 1st gen get away from me was in the rain. I think that was because the passenger wasn't belted in and after a couple of slides they were practically in my lap. It's nearly impossible to steer out of a spin with someone in your lap. I wouldn't want to give up my power slide cornering for a set of original tires. I think maybe Coker has original looking red lines that are radials? Anybody got em?

Diamondback Classics have redline radials. They look great, but I've never driven anything with them. I've only seen them at shows.

I have a set of raidials that are square from sitting, but they sat longer than one winter. If you're going to let the car sit all winter, it doesn't involve that much work to put the car on stands. On stands, you want to keep the springs loaded meaning that you support the car under the control arms and under the rear.

Now that I have square tires on steel rims, they have become the car's winter sneakers. If I want to take the car out and poke around, I can run it around on the winter sneakers because the square factor doesn't come into play until about 50. The poke factor would be speeds from creep to 35 to 40, and if I had a burning desire to go faster, I would install summer sneakers. I guess it depends on which side of the tracks you come from, but I view the r&r of 4 tires--twice--as about the same amount of work as adding a quart of oil.

I too was going to post a question about winter storage, so I'll ask here...

Does anyone "Fog" their engines for winter hibernation?

My dad always fogged his boat engines for the winter. I realize there is not much opportunity to start up a boat during the winter like you can car, but my bird may have to go two to three months without running this year. Is this still a recommended practice? Also I have to store my car in a non-heated storage unit.

Thanks,

Mike