So I went and saw "Cars" tonight, and all the talk of whitewalls got me thinking about my old 74 hornet my Dad bought me to learn to drive and it's whitewalls. Anyone have whitewall tires on their MINI?

 

No ..and i havent see one...yet, i was thinking about that too, or a sport performance tire w/ white letters, it will be more sporty i think..

 

man, that's going to look weird. give it a try and post up some
picts.

 

search

here are some pics: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ght=whitewalls

 

Kenchan,

Somehow I expected a response from you...not your typical witty self today? ...V8 - the drink I look forward to your replys

White walls...along with a few bullet holes and perhaps some wood cladding?

 

wow--I wasn't expecting to like the look--not bad at all

 

...might actually look good with white wheels.

 

looks .. ..diferent....

 

Ah, the 60's - don't forget the extra chrome and some tail fins would do nicely

 

It just looks wrong without the curb feelers & continental kit.

 

i didn't have time to eat breakfast... so was out of creative juice. :impatient

then one starts talking about white wall on a MCS and now im trying to
image wat my pop's Old's tires looked like back in the early 80's and
trying to mentally photochop it onto a MCS...

then i remembered the '98 having some soft roof, like a faux convertible
and some spoke hubcaps... then i remembered this fat lady saying how
nice the 98 looked and then it all started to fog up my head and
could not think of anything creative to say. :impatient

 

I searched, but didn't pull up any results, thanks for the link to the pics!
Seeing it now it's definitely not bad, especially with a white top MINI. I think the key would just be finding the right wheels to go with it.
Ragedmx has a good point about the performance tires with white lettering, that might give me the pizazz I'm looking for and still look contemporary.

Well, I'm off to Tirerack to see if they have any. If anyone finds any whitewall/wheel combos they like let me know. Is there a technical reason for the cars in the pics having the wheels they do?

 

No! No! No! Whitewalls on a MINI is just WRONG!
However the Continental kit would eliminate the need for run-flats.

 

dont imagine the witewalls from the 80s, those are more like white strip (literally). Go with some coker whitewall radials, be warned tho, they are not going to be sport tires in any way! They at least have 3 inches of white on them, some kid once told me he was putting white walls on his s10, when he finally got them, i laughed at them ,he got mad, but it was a natural response, i then showed him what whitewalls were supposed to look like! ( i have 3 1/4 inch whites on my 1940 ford coupe). I wanted to get 650/16 tires just so i could have 4inches of white going around, but they looked just to big. (havnt seen the pics that were in te other link, my internet is too slow to download them, i will look at a friends house later).

Beecher

 

oh, or you could go real old skool and put bias ply whites on (which my 40 has). That way if you get tired of steering, just let go of the wheel and let the ruts in the road steer for you!! Dont think you would get bias plys to fit in our wheel well tho, or ones that are wide enough to fit our rims, my rims are only 4 inches wide on the 40, hahah.

 

or just get a mini.

 

Kinda makes the Mini look like a 70's pimpmobile

 

mini in da hawz

 

Looking thru Rally's link to the motoring underground rat thread with my dad, he told me about white strips you could get that you can put on any tire, under the bead on the front of the rim and they naturally forld back against the sidewall. Any old skoolers know about these?

 

Also, I saw and ad for the Scion tc a while back. It was white with black rims and whitewalls. Looked SICK. And I don't even like those crapboxes....

 

those white walls are called porta-walls. Im a big fan of whitewalls on old cars, but i just dont think a mini would pull it off. I know mine wont be getting a set!

Beecher

 

yup....thats how you get white walls now-a-days, and as you mentioned its very big in the Rat Stylz VW movement. Talking to them would probably be your best bet. Although you will have best luck with 15s....dont know if they make them for 17 inch wheels

 

sandtoast... I abhor Porta-Walls.
On my old Karmann Ghia, I had true whitewalls for a long time, until I lost one of the wheels. It was hard to replace the originals, so I opted for new tires with Portas instead of buying and shipping a new set of real whitewall tires. I regretted it within a few months. They don't sit very well, eventually start to peel up from the tire at the outermost points, and eventually shear off. Ugh. Not for daily driving.

 

even true white walls arnt for daily driving, white rubber just doesnt stay clean, i so much as touch the white and they smuge, dont think they would like the brake dust from our disk brakes either!! Even if you love the look, i think you will regret putting them on.

Beecher