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We too were shopping for wide whites for our 56. We reviewed all the available radials for 15" and noticed the widest radial white in our tire tize range was a 2.5" whitewall.

Since we current had a set of old Uniroyal radial wide-whites which had a 3" wall, we did not want to go back to narrower. We decided to go with bias tires for that reason. We figured if it was bad enough on the ride we could always change later and use the tires on a hotrod project.

We went all the way with the Goodyear pattern made by Kelsey tire in Missouri. We ordered through Universal. It took 2 days to receive the tires.
The tires are 6.70 x 15 which was the original tire size for our year. We chose the widest whitewall which is 4.25". It is a very awesome classic look on the peacock bird. We know it is oversize from stock but it looks real nice.

And It handles and steers just fine. My wife is happy with it, although I keep telling her to take it in to our alinement guy, and have him put a little tow-in on it for the bias tires. I think we paid about $115 each plus shipping. This was much less than eqiuvalent radials, although $$$$ was not cause for our choice.

We went to the riverside Model T swap last weekend and parked with the classic cars and rods. I noticed we had the widest whites there except for a huge 1930 Lincoln which had wheels 3 ft tall and 6" whites!!!

Frankie