Watching an old Highway Patrol show and they were in a tire warehouse. All the tires were wrapped in paper and stacked. Got me to wondering about why they were wrapped. Looked uo tire wrapping Whitewall tire - Wikipedia. and found some interesting facts. From completely white tires through white side walls. Per the article tires were wrapped to protect the white from getting scuffed before selling. Interesting history article, well to me anyway.
White Tires. And White Sidw Walls
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Used to be they were all white walls. If you didn't want them they just mounted them to the inside. I think white walls are out of style, yes?
Believe it or not but in the 50's ( and 40's?) you could get fake whitewalls. A thin white disc that would go between the rim and tire. For Tubed tires, not tubeless.
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I had Porta Walls on my 1952 Chevy. Not sure there were any tubeless tires back then.
Protecting the not-black surfaces is why...I worked for General Tire and Goodyear several years...The stacks of tires in the showroom (three flat and top one upright) were always placed on circular cardboard or fiberboard spacers to keep the lampblack in the tires from penetrating the floors...During my years with Goodyear the Goodyear Double Eagle of the 70's was the only one still paper wrapped to protect its distinctive patterned whitewall with gold stripe (we didn't sell many of these premium tires)...I remember the paper being similar to S&W vapor paper to prevent surface oxidation since they were likely to stay in storage on the upper tiers of the tire racks for years before sale...
...Ben
Through parental experience I learned that white walls/raised white letters and student drivers don't mix.
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I spent toooo much time with Westley's Bleche-Wite scrubbing mom's white walls on her Buick... of course I got my driver's license in that car... big sister has it now... it is a really cool Buick... 1972 Skylark Custom convertible... it didn't look like this when I drove it.. sister hot rodded it a bit...it runs in the family
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My old hot rod came with white walls, I was never crazy about them. Tires were originally made from natural rubber which is white, they learned to add carbon to the white rubber in what was known as vulcanization which turned it black and extended the life of the tire. True white walls have the white rubber poured into the mold then the black stuff added on top. The tires on this '51 were made by Coker and are bias ply. They suffered from delamination of the white part, I contacted Coker and they basically said T.S.
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...Should I get a set of white wall tires?...
Are ya' gonna' cruise the miracle mile?...
Billy Joel
Are ya' gonna' cruise the miracle mile?...
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I guess we were too poor to buy a dedicated whitewall cleaner when I was a kid. I had to use a Brillo pad when cleaning the whitewalls on the family car in the '60's. They did a good job, but it sure twernt easy!
The only tires I remember my dad buying were always white walls, for our Chevys, and later our Pontiac. He always mounted them white wall inside.
DWalt
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Brillo pads work well for cleaning whitewalls. I, and everyone I knew, cleaned their whitewalls that way back in the day. I haven't had whitewall tires for a very long time.
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[QUOTE.. big sister has it now... it is a really cool Buick... 1972 Skylark Custom convertible... it didn't look like this when I drove it.. sister hot rodded it a bit...it runs in the family[/QUOTE]That is a cool car. Is your sister married? 
Just kiddin about your sis but that is an absolutely cool car.
Just kiddin about your sis but that is an absolutely cool car.charlie sherrill
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Back in the early 60's a friend and I installed "Port-o-walls on his 1954 Ford pickup. We was cool.
