[virgil283]

'whitewall tires had fewer blowouts'....Thanks I've not heard that...... { In the early '50s, folks who could not afford whitewalls would mask off and paint their own...with house paint... }

[Abathar]

Funny thing is back then almost all tires were molded as whitewalls, they just put a piece of black rubber over it when they were molded.

Grandpa use to own a rubber company in Detroit and made a fortune grinding tires for people on the side. They would buy blackwalls, and for the right price Grandpa would grind them to however wide a white strip they wanted, I think 4” was max on some tires.

I am skeptical on the strength part of the white rubber though, why most rubber is black is because the carbon black put in it makes it stronger, white rubber just isn't as good as black usually.