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    10/25/2023 9:29 PM  #1

    Toploader
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    Porta-wall tire inserts

    Getting a decent performance tire with a white wall is tough, so I was considering these porta-wall white wall tire inserts.
    Has anyone tried these?



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    10/26/2023 6:43 AM  #2

    Greg B
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    Re: Porta-wall tire inserts

    Never seen those before.   Are they a screw in installation?  Or held in by a wrench?

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    10/26/2023 7:24 AM  #3

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    Re: Porta-wall tire inserts

    OMG, shades of the fifties.
    White portawalls were all the rage back then. They slipped under the bead on a deflated tire.
    A friend had one come loose at about 50 mph and we thought it was goi to shake the front end apart.

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    10/26/2023 8:52 AM  #4

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    Re: Porta-wall tire inserts

    Perhaps something like this could be an option?

    https://www.rangerpaint.com/

     

    10/26/2023 8:52 AM  #5

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    Re: Porta-wall tire inserts

    And not even close to April yet

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    10/26/2023 10:13 AM  #6

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    Re: Porta-wall tire inserts

    Rudi wrote:

    OMG, shades of the fifties.
    White portawalls were all the rage back then. They slipped under the bead on a deflated tire.
    A friend had one come loose at about 50 mph and we thought it was goi to shake the front end apart.

    I remember those.  that was the way us poor kids spiffed up our cars.

    Original owner - 351w,T-5, 4whl disks, power R&P
     

    10/26/2023 11:49 AM  #7

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    Re: Porta-wall tire inserts

    Had em on my '50 Ford.  They wern't called Port-a-Wall then...at least not by those of us who used them, but I can't recall what we did call them.  Something totally non-politically correct, I'm sure.

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    10/26/2023 2:49 PM  #8

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    Re: Porta-wall tire inserts

    The ones my buddy Steve had on his 54 two door post Ford were called Portawalls, hyphens in the name , can’t remember.

    Good work ain't cheap, Cheap work ain't good!   Simple Man
     

    10/27/2023 10:58 AM  #9

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    Re: Porta-wall tire inserts

    My father had these, only in 'wide whites', on his 52 Ford. 

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