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Goodyear is the only one of the five biggest tire firms among US tire manufacturers in 1970 to remain independent into the 21st century. Goodyear's success was partly due to the challenge posed by radial tire technology, and the varied responses. [18] At the time, the entire US tire industry produced the older bias-ply technology. Estimates to ...
B: bias belt (where the sidewalls are the same material as the tread, leading to a rigid ride) D: diagonal; R: radial; if omitted, it is a cross-ply tire; The R in a radial tire may be preceded by an optional letter indicating the speed rating of the tire according to a deprecated naming system.
The Polyglas tires had a bias construction that added stabilizing circumference belts directly beneath the tread. These fiberglass belts surrounded the polyester cord body, thus the Polyglas name for which Goodyear registered a U.S. trademark #859,703. [3] The construction was a type "domestic performance car fans were familiar with". [3]
Today, only Goodyear, Cooper, Titan, and Specialty Tires of America remain independent among US tire manufacturers, and the radial has practically replaced all other construction methods for automobile tires on the market. Sam Gibara, who headed Goodyear from 1996 to 2003, has noted that without the action of Pilliod, Goodyear "wouldn't be ...
The wheels were painted white, with blue pinstripes around the clear coated polished lip's outer perimeter, and were fitted with Goodyear P245/50/VR16 "Gatorback" uni-directional tires (the new wheel/tire combo was very similar to the Corvette's P255/50/VR16 arrangement), marking the first appearance of 16 by 8-inch wheels on any F-body and a ...
An automotive belt with the number "740K6" or "6K740" indicates a belt 74 inches (190 cm) in length, 6 ribs wide, with a rib pitch of 9 ⁄ 64 of an inch (3.6 mm) (a standard thickness for a K series automotive belt would be 4.5mm). A metric equivalent would be usually indicated by "6PK1880" whereby 6 refers to the number of ribs, PK refers to ...