For a car that wasn't going to see a lot of miles, that's a possibility.
The Hoosier tires would wear pretty quickly on the street. The other issue
is that to reduce weight, the race tires like that aren't built to take the
same kind of impacts that street tires are, leaving you more suspectible to
having a puncture or other damage if you were to run them on the street.
Would be a lot of fun blasting around on them however!!
When my OT 5.0L Mustang was my only summer car, and also my track car, I
would always be driving around on the street with shaved DOT R-compound
radial tires. Back then (late 80s / early 90s), the R-compound stuff still
had a regular tread pattern usually, they were just a soft compound / stiff
sidewall version of the various manufacturers' ultra performance street
tire. Some of the cornering speeds I used to go at on the street were
pretty scary in retrospect. The funny thing was, no tire squeal either. If
you were making R-compound tires squeal around a curve on the street, you
were probably about to crash. ; )
cheers
TS # 27
CobraJet wrote:
>>
> In the old days, the local police used to always check your tires
> for legality since so many guys ran wrinkle walls and such. These
> days,
> I just don't see them doing that anymore, especially with all the
> lo-profile stuff and whatnot floating around. I suppose, if someone
> really needed to have sticky tires for dry pavement use, you could
> probably get away with specialty stuff.
>
> https://www.hoosiertire.com/rrtire.htm
>
> CobraJet
>>
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