I had my tires dismounted yesterday so I could blast and paint my rims. Tread was great, but they dated out. 14 years old. So now I'm shopping for tires.

The plan is to do my steel rims in gloss black and leave the caps off. I thought it'd be fun to get a tire with white or yellow lettering. But I'm having a hard time finding these.

I love the look of the Dunlops on the Emory 356, and would like to end up with this look. These are SP Sport 5000's. Looks to me like this particular tire's letters got painted white and the oil has started to seep through, giving it an off-white yellowish cast. I actually like that.

If these are indeed molded-in white letters, where can I get these tires?

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You can do it yourself with a oil paint marking pen.

Don't know if these were done from new or not. The color is not molded in.
I got them lightly used years ago.
This model tire has been discontinued and the replacement has much smaller
DUNLOP letters in plain black

Maybe try DOT Hoosiers?

Check at Lucas Tires/Longstone Tyres (UK) (Lucas can order anything at their sister Longstone) & Coker Tires - they're all online.

You may need to go to an American Classic look radial in a comparable American to Euro size, in order to get the look you want.

Good Luck!
Tom
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And then you have several companies like this one making tire bling...

https://www.tirestickers.com/shop/

And nice pegasus in that pic! (I also have a thing for pegasuses :-)



The TR4 is my brothers car. He uses the contractors oil pens.
Luckily yellow is a standard safety color so I think they have them at HD.

I think he uses Diagraph GP-X
http://www.durablesupply.com/gpclma.html#.VwRGf6QrKbg

Excellent tips. Thanks. I think I'll just go with the paint pen then. I don't mind it looking a little aged after a while. Sort of give it a more authentic look.

So now I just need to figure out what tire to use. The old ones were Bridgestone Eager P185 65 R15s. I like how they looked, size wise. Handling, I have no idea. Only drove the car for about 20 miles before I ripped the tranny out. I know there are lots of posts out there on this. I'm off to search.

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They sell tire "stickers" now... if you don't want the same brand, but want an era correct logo/ sticker, you can aways shave down the side wall, which will get rid of the logo, and apply these. I think they are like a heat transfer.

A lot of the vintage guys use them because they want the tire/ logo to be period correct, and a lot of times they are not available anymore.

https://www.tirestickers.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jQeBbEbztc

Here's another company but their letters are a little more stylish that the factory fonts.

https://tredwear.com/

https://scontent.fsjc1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/hpho...amp;oe=57BB1B91

I use a paint pen . it cracks a bit ... but looks nice and bright