Old original factory tire disposition? (Page 2/2) Kevin87FieroGT FEB 26, 08:59 AM Take them off the wheels. Store them in vac bags in a temp controlled environment. Use them for your show car, or sell them for someone else’s. Many race car museums and restoration facilities just store old, but valuable, tires in temp controlled rooms. The vac bags just limit environmental contaminants. What’s the value of the tires in dollars? Whatever you can get at the moment. hyperv6 FEB 26, 01:23 PM Here is the deal. Depending on conditions the tire faced and they quality of the tires the actual life of the tire can be longer than the generic time given. There are variables involved that can really make the time vary. Due to legal issues they take the conservative numbers. Now some tires will will wear fine, some will crack and not go farther others will just come apart at speed and even if you do not crash the flapping tread can do great damage to fenders wheel wells and in some cases remove a head lamp. Also while you may not have cracks you can suffer the rubber getting harder with time and lose a lot more traction than you realize. I get it we all have pushed tires farther than we should but beware you may get away with it a set or two but you may pay the price at some point. Flat spots are also a problem in tires that sit. Steel FEB 27, 02:48 AM Staying on topic I'd probably keep them around through the spring at least, plenty of folks trailer low mile cars to shows that are literally never driven over 20mph and only a few blocks a year.. if that. Eliredandblack FEB 27, 04:18 AM After reading all the comments about old tires, I am forced to mention an old story from my Corvette Forum. Someone had take their classic car, with very old tires to a garage to have some repairs done. One night while sitting next to a restored classic car, one of the old tires exploded. The restored car suffered some damage to the paint, so the garage made the guy who owned the car with the old tires pay for the body work. The old tire just exploded without the car being driven. hyperv6 FEB 27, 07:06 AM quote Originally posted by Steel: Staying on topic I'd probably keep them around through the spring at least, plenty of folks trailer low mile cars to shows that are literally never driven over 20mph and only a few blocks a year.. if that. You mean the ones I see with blown tires and bad wheel bearings along side the road?