In 1967, when Mattel's biggest customer for their product line J.C. No enamel black versions have been found to this day. The value for it still in the blister pack is immeasurable. According to Michael Zarnock's 'Warman's Hot Wheels Field Guide: 3rd Edition (Values and Identification)', this is the third rarest Hot Wheels car to exist, and has a value of up to $2,500+ loose. This car is extremely rare to find at all, let alone in the blister pack. Only a few were known to be mistakenly packaged and released to retailers. The enamel white variant is a prototype, because what designers did with all new cars, is that they coated them with an enamel white or black coat to check for imperfections. The Custom Camaro was the very first Hot Wheel to escape the drawing board and be released to the public. But the history behind the Custom Camaro is a little more in perspective. I got three pieces of advice 1) never buy a cam for the rumble, and 2) never buy a Polyglass tire, and 3) never marry a divorced woman, while her ex still lives.With most early Redline cars comes some secretive history, with most of them having at least one rare variant, be it the Cheetah Python, the aqua no-sunroof Custom Volkswagen, or the white interior Red Baron. It took me all of summer of 71 to master that plick, and then the tires were wore out.īut gosh those raised white letters looked so nice all cleaned up and fresh-painted. I had several hi-school nicknames like Ditcher, Ditch-hitter, and 360, and Circle Clown or something. I give all the credit of my driving prowess,lol, directly to those tires. I learned to drive in one of those 340Swingers and I can attest to that it was like driving on ball-bearings all the time. On a 340 Swinger, those factory supplied E70-14s turned that car into the most evil handling POS-car a 17 year old kid could ever have. If you have a slanty and never drive over 30mph, you'd be ok. To do that, I only had to move the springs and run a custom backspace.Īfter that, I narrowed the rear end so I could run off-the-shelf 4.5 backspace wheels, so now, I run 295/50-15s on 10' rims, at 24psi.īut as said Polyglass was cutting edge in 1970, but the reputation of Polyglass is legendary. On the back I have installed, into the stock tubs, as much as 325/50-15s on 10s which IIRC were ~13.8 section and close to 28 tall before being bolted on. I have to run these at 28psi to get even-across-the-tread wear. The height is about 25 before being bolted on. On my 7.5s that would be at least an inch more so 10.25 section. On the front are 235/60-14s on 7.5' rims which spec out as 9.25 section when installed on a 6.5 rim. If you're just tip-toeing around,you might think that would be fine, but you have to also keep in mind that your front wheels and tires also have to handle about 85% of the brake load, so you really want the tires to be flat on the road at a decent tire-pressure. Anyway, you can put an F on a 5.5, but you will not get decent handling on it, nor decent treadlife. What I mean is the factory put Es on 5.5s, but really, the equivalent to an E (7.35 tread) in P-metric is about a 175 section. I mean you can put them on there but 5.5s are designed for E's max. You can solve this by running a very low tire pressure, perhaps 24psi, but at that pressure, the car will handle very poorly. You can use a 7, but it will pinch the beads in and the tire will not sit flat on the road at normal pressure and so the outside two ribs will wear at a much slower rate than the centers. They want 8' rims but you cannot put 14x8s on the front, at a backspace that won't at some point in the suspension travel/steering angle, either, put the inside sidewall into the strutrod or frame, or the outside one, into the fender so you can't use a 14x 8 at all. Fs were 7.75 treads, and so translate to about 9.25 section. Yes I think they will fit on the factory 5.5 rims.

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