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Re: Anyone running bias ply tires?
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Originally Posted by toms68cst
When did radials start coming factory-mounted on Chevy trucks? Were they available on the 67-72's?
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Only bias ply on these trucks. I'm not sure how many more years until trucks came with radials. I want to say closer to 1980. In '82 I had a '78 SWB with custom wheels and wide radials installed by previous owner. I believe those were P-series. Michelin made the first radials, I believe. Radials took off in Europe first. Then in the '60s Michelin did a deal with Sears who offered them branded as Sears tires for a specified length of time. Then you saw multiple brands of radials and bias plies go away. I know in the late-60s UPS trucks (Chevys) ran 7.50-16 Michelin Xs and that was the first truck radial I knew of. My dad got a set in '69 For his '62 Land Rover 109. Big rig didn't start using radials till many years later. And once they did come out, many trucks continued to run bias.
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