# All tires have white layers?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/all-tires-have-white-layers/91635>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** tires\
**Created:** [November 4, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/all-tires-have-white-layers/91635 "2015-11-04T23:47:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/all-tires-have-white-layers/91635/21 "2015-11-09T21:07:27Z")

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One company that still sells them calls them Porta Walls. They also talk about the origin of white walls being the use of carbon black only in the tread. Like I said before, I remember no ‘white wall’ looking tires on period photos of really antique (pre-1910) cars, so I think they’re wrong.

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**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/all-tires-have-white-layers/91635/22 "2015-11-09T23:30:25Z")

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Let’s see must have been about 1960 when they went from wide white walls to the narrow ones that looked a lot nicer. Then remember the red walls on the GTOs back in the 60’s?

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**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/all-tires-have-white-layers/91635/23 "2015-11-10T02:15:43Z")

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Red lines that I am famliar with were labelled PATROL PURSUIT which implied that they were for police and highway partol use at high speed. And that was in the mid 60s.

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/all-tires-have-white-layers/91635/24 "2015-11-10T05:32:02Z")

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Coker specializes in classic car tires…  
[https://www.cokertire.com/tires.html?utm\_source=bing&utm\_medium=cpc&utm\_campaign=Tires\_Tire\_Type&utm\_term=classic%20car%20tires&utm\_content=text](https://www.cokertire.com/tires.html?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Tires_Tire_Type&utm_term=classic%20car%20tires&utm_content=text)

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