Anyone else (in addition to JG) remember these? I was just telling Alan about them. I need a set for the 911.
Anyone else (in addition to JG) remember these? I was just telling Alan about them. I need a set for the 911.
If you find some I will take 5 please. I was planning on mounting them up on RX7 donut spares for a project then the supply disappeared. Motorcycle sidecar tires would work, but they only come in 15 and 17 inch, and the rims are 16s.
If memory served, those kinda turned into the Aquatread. Or was it the other way around?
I remember seeing a set of these in a VW performance shop in the 80s. They were scary expensive.
I saw a set on a display in a European car shop out on Long Island about 15 years ago, but never saw them on the road
I bet they ARE good in the wet with that kind of water displacement ability 
Ha, bumping this up because I was just poking around for more info on these and found my own thread from 7 years ago. (Where does the time go?)
Also, I believe this is the missing image from the original post.
If you put them on a dually..... you can have QUAD TIRES!
Followed soon thereafter by "I'm not hydroplaning, I'm aquatreading!"
I still remember the goofy lexan display that had a normal "tire" and an "aquatread" submerged in a blue liquid. You'd tilt it one way or the other, and the fact that the aquatread tire was always the first one to the other side clearly indicated its superiority as a wet weather tire...
Recon1342 said:Followed soon thereafter by "I'm not hydroplaning, I'm aquatreading!"
Oh jeez... There was a guy on ClubSi about 15 years ago who bragged that he won a street race against a Cobra R ("It had a big R in the window") and it turned out that it was raining, the guy in the Mustang didn't even know there was a race going on, and the Honda guy justified it as "i aquatreaded (sic) past his ass"
It turned into a meme on rx7forum 
Working for a Goodyear retailer when those were available, Aquatreds were mainly good at wearing very choppy and noisy. They changed the design a couple times until it was their generic new-style square shouldered tire with a faint groove in the middle. I hated all of those square shouldered tires, at least one out of every set of four had a shifted belt when new, and we couldn't return them as defective unless the customer complained about it first. Lotta pissed off people.
If you want to dominate as a rain drag racer..... Audi S car.
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