# Oh well, it could have been Oil **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [February 5, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106 "2026-02-05T00:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/1 "2026-02-05T00:44:46Z")
This popup on Facebook ![IMG_3306](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/c/d/cdd2aab8d3f224b40b54b9f14a9e003433d2ce6d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 1:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/2 "2026-02-05T01:04:58Z")
I guess I’m anywhere between 1960 to 1980. Disclaimer: I’m not saying others have to agree with me, so please think before you verbally attack me. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/3 "2026-02-05T02:00:09Z")
Most of my cars came with tires as shown for 1960. The 1970 tire is an all-terrain tire not available before the '80’s and much larger than what cars used in the 1970’s. Might be suitable for Chris’s Honda. The 1980 tire is a custom size, wider and a lower profile than the optional tire on the 1980 Corvette, P255/60R15. That tire does not represent tires used in 1980. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/3/8/38e0d61e375d189157b13dc26bbf90d9f196864a.jpeg) The last two tires are custom sizes or only used on high performance vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/4 "2026-02-05T02:18:51Z")
> [@Nevada\_545](#): > > The 1970 tire is an all-terrain tire not available before the '80’s and much larger than what cars used in the 1970’s. Might be suitable for Chris’s Honda. The OE sizes that fit my 2010 Accord EX are what it came with: 225-50R17, and the LX(base) size 215-60R16. If my finances and time allowed, I would minus-size to the latter - on Accord LX OE rims of course, for the 2008-10 model years. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/5 "2026-02-05T02:46:35Z")
What about the over-sized off-road tires in the 1970 picture? You approved of the tires 1960 to 1980 tires. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 3:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/6 "2026-02-05T03:08:46Z")
Hmmm. I have a picture of my uncle driving the family dairy truck. Wooden spokes. No date. Figured it was in the 30s. Likely not a current year truck. No doors, winter time. Big guy. Probably carried two milk cans at a time. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/7 "2026-02-05T03:14:54Z")
I was going strictly by aspect ratios - or an approximation thereof in the provided chart. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/8 "2026-02-05T04:32:28Z")
What about the pre 1920 tires that were a light gray, color and from what I’ve read about, were quite unsafe due to the lack of carbon black, that wasn’t included until about the late 1910’s… Anyway, a fun (probably AI generated) picture with inaccurate info on it to talk about, and it seems to be working… lol [https://forums.aaca.org/topic/418365-all-white-tires-years/](https://forums.aaca.org/topic/418365-all-white-tires-years/) ---
**Author:** ![auto-owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@auto-owner](https://community.cartalk.com/u/auto-owner)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 6:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/9 "2026-02-05T06:33:47Z")
Low profile tires may actually be dumber than waterbeds were, but we ain’t the fastest learners. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/10 "2026-02-05T12:14:14Z")
This was just copied from Facebook, I question some of photos. Might be my old eyes but the 2020&2025 tires appear to have the same or nearly the same aspect ratio. Whitewalls were still common through the 80s. My 86 T-Bird had 205/70R14, when I bought new tires (Cooper) that size was available only with WW, had them mounted with the WWs on the inside. A popular auto parts chain (Champion) in Minnesota had billboards in the 60s proclaiming the tires of the 70s are here, aspect ratio 50. My 16 year old brain had no clue what that was. Tires were not usually covered in my favorite magazine “Popular Hot Rodding”. As far as the 1970 tire, Armstrong working this D I c k Cepek **might** have produced a tire like that in the 60s. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/11 "2026-02-05T13:58:28Z")
Back up a few decades…. The 1910 Tire… carbon black got added later in that decade. Aspect ratio of about 100 pumped to 65 psi ![1910](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/3/9/391d2f538fe1915e41e92e748f62e92f795a0b9a.jpeg) The 1900 tire… tread got added in the middle of that decade. ![1900](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/0/3/0378ca8df011e231bd52dfae2de22a87290e99c4.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/12 "2026-02-05T14:45:30Z")
> [@Purebred](#): > > This was just copied from Facebook, I question some of photos … as well as videos on FB. For quite a while, people were posting pics that supposedly showed cars of the ‘50s, but in every case, they were AI-generated and did not look very much like the cars that they claimed to show. More recently, someone is posting videos of luxury cars of the ‘50s, and at first glance, they don’t look quite right. What is supposed to be… let’s say… a ‘51 Caddy has a grille that isn’t accurate. I have seen a couple of these AI-generated videos where the rear door has a handle, but the body in that area is solid, with no panel gaps between the rear fender and the door panel. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/13 "2026-02-05T15:23:54Z")
Yes, have seen those and posts where the car is clearly misidentified. I suspect it is just click bate and scroll by. One advertisement I did click on offered this, I am a fan of both Cassandra Peterson and Studebaker, just might order one. ![IMG_3309](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/4/8/489fcd5a9fbbea31ff93784cc09f5f657fa5eac1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/14 "2026-02-05T15:32:22Z")
Sensing a problem when they go to mount those wheels… Dyson around back then? 😄 ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/15 "2026-02-05T18:52:37Z")
Yes, it was the carbon black that made the tires safe(r), turning the tires black was just a side effect, as I said earlier, **if I read it correctly** , before the carbon black was added, the tires had a very short life and very high failure rate, like blowing out in hundreds of mile instead of thousands of miles… And the tires were more of a light gray color that would fade to an off white ish with age, but it should up in the old photos as white… Just what I have read, I wasn’t around back then… lol ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/16 "2026-02-05T21:13:07Z")
More than many may want to know about tires and carbon black: [Here’s Why Tires Are Black](https://www.jalopnik.com/heres-why-tires-are-black-1828925177/) ---
**Author:** ![old\_mopar\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6bbea6/32.png) [@old\_mopar\_guy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/old_mopar_guy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/17 "2026-02-06T03:47:14Z")
She’d kill me, but I’d go with a smile. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/18 "2026-02-06T12:50:59Z")
The movies she showed were horrible, but she was so funny had to watch. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/19 "2026-02-06T13:51:32Z")
Being funny wasn’t why I watched them… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106/20 "2026-02-06T14:41:56Z")
During those years there was a hosted “Creature Feature” on a Tampa station. Host was Dr Paul Bearer, looked a bit like John Carradine. He, as common at the time for local personalities, would do mall or supermarket grand openings. He would arrive in his ‘Corpse Deville’, a Caddy hearse. His girlfriend was one of the attractions at Cypress Gardens, occasionally he would picker her up in his Corpse Deville. ![IMG_3315](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/5/1/51477916cfff6ddaaad1b73ee4ee6ce44a7d021b.jpeg) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oh-well-it-could-have-been-oil/205106.md?page=2)