Have a 2R5 that came out of North Dakota and Western Minnesota. It needed some better tires on it can be rolled around before going for sale. My town, Forest Lake, MN is still the location of a genuine 50’s style tire shop: Reub’s Tire Shop run by Dick Stark. Dick knows lots about tires and cars and has a sharp eye for tire and wheel problems. So I took a pair of tires on wheels to him that needed the rotten tires removed and some used tires put on that would hold air.
When I came to pick them up Dick showed me the inner tube from one of them. Wow! Counted fifteen (15) patches on this inner tube of all different sizes/styles. Dick showed me where it had some really early rubber patches of melted rubber for the patch. This was a farm truck so you gotta wonder what they were running over to get so many punctures.
Then Dick also said these red inner tubes were popular with kids who would cut rubber bands out of them to use on sling shots. The rubber on this tube is still stretchy after 70± years.
No doubt these farmers were frugal Studebaker owners. . . .
When I came to pick them up Dick showed me the inner tube from one of them. Wow! Counted fifteen (15) patches on this inner tube of all different sizes/styles. Dick showed me where it had some really early rubber patches of melted rubber for the patch. This was a farm truck so you gotta wonder what they were running over to get so many punctures.
Then Dick also said these red inner tubes were popular with kids who would cut rubber bands out of them to use on sling shots. The rubber on this tube is still stretchy after 70± years.
No doubt these farmers were frugal Studebaker owners. . . .
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