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White Walls Yes/No? #1
debrujr J D Arkansas, USA	Posted: March 05, 2013 12:27PM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 24

I haven't seen many Bs with white walls (maybe rightfully so confused smiley

). Do they look atrocious or just not a common styling preference? I had seen Will.I.Am.'s "corvette" a while back which has a custom set of wheels that mimic white walls and thought it may look decent on my B. I threw the below images together just to give me an idea of what it would look like and I honestly don't hate it. I apologize if I used one of your pics to try it out on grinning smiley

. My car is still a long way out so I needed a good model...

The original car was green, I changed to B&W to mimic the black color.

I was bored....

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #2
riley1489 Bruce Hopgood Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1973 MG MGB	Posted: March 05, 2013 12:38PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 736

JD
Nothing as dramatic as you show, my 1973 Canadian car came from the factory shod in Dunlop with white walls,

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #3
mowogman Bryan Frazier NC, USA	Posted: March 05, 2013 12:56PM Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 1,450

Top image kind of has a clean retro-modern-performance look. I like it.
In the second photo the white walls dont fit the overall aggressive look of that car.

It comes down to the rest of your car, the wheels just need to fit the total package.

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #4
JMoore John Moore Clifton Park, NY, USA 1961 Austin-Healey "Bugeye" Sprite 1968 MG MGB GT 1970 MG MGB 1999 Land Rover Discovery II	Posted: March 05, 2013 01:05PM Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 18,384

If the car has modern styling like yours, then I don't like it so much. Your wheels are too modern. Now if the car has an early 60's look, I think they look great.

The white walls in my avatar are going on my bugeye, which has a very 50's look.

John Moore

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #5
JMoore John Moore Clifton Park, NY, USA 1961 Austin-Healey "Bugeye" Sprite 1968 MG MGB GT 1970 MG MGB 1999 Land Rover Discovery II	Posted: March 05, 2013 01:07PM Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 18,384

This MGB has a more 60's look and the white walls look great.

http://www.mgexperience.net/archive/Baby_Got_New_Shoes/1744959

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #6
debrujr J D Arkansas, USA	Posted: March 05, 2013 01:28PM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 24

Definitely see what you all are getting at. I guess when I had seen the wheels on his car (below) they blended the modern and classic look which made me wonder how well it could be done with a B. Maybe my interest shouldn't be in the white wall tires themselves but finding a similar wheel. I intend to "modernize" the look of mine but would still like to keep a lot of the classic cues. Who knows.. Unfortunately I have plenty of time to think about it.

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #7
ohlord Rob C North of Seattle, N.W., USA 1971 MG MGB "Bedouin 2"	Posted: March 05, 2013 01:37PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 1,848

A 1962 Iris Blue. Sure. Anything else,nope.
personal preference. winking smiley

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #8
mowog1 Rick Ingram Saint Joseph, Illinois, USA	Posted: March 05, 2013 01:46PM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 20,386

The w/w looks great on the Corvette....not so much on the MGB.

My opinion.

It's your car!

I agree with John Moore...w/w's look great on the early MGBs, especially with disc wheels.

My 1978 MGb also came from the factory with thin w/w Dunlops on RoStyles, similar to those pictured by Bruce Hopgood.

Curious...what do you have as a drivetrain?

I notice the drilled/slotted rotors front and rear.....unless they are a Photoshoppe for effect?

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #9
debrujr J D Arkansas, USA	Posted: March 05, 2013 02:00PM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 24

Neither of those cars are mine. I just picked out a few pics from a Google search that had the car in the stance that I wanted and then overlaid the wheels from the pics of the corvette. That isn't me that disappears in the photo either. spinning smiley sticking its tongue out

A few minutes of photo editing and voila an MGB with the vette wheels as well as rotors etc...

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #10
PaulH Paul Erslev Annapolis, MD, USA 1969 MG MGB "Betsy"	Posted: March 05, 2013 02:46PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 467

X2 Rick. When I ordered my B, I had an option for WW tires. Not for me. Your car.

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #11
tedjr Ted R. Schneider Jr. Akron, Ohio, USA 1974 MG MGB "Ruby"	Posted: March 05, 2013 03:21PM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 1,699

Your call JD,
Heritage Certificate states mine came off the assembly line with whitewall tyres. I personally, like the look, especially with the Damask Red exterior and non-standard black Rostyles

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #12
fthemanj Freddy Jones Raleigh, NC, USA 1961 MG MGA 1974 MG MGB	Posted: March 05, 2013 03:56PM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 283

If you're making a statement of style (like the Corvette), then go for it. It's a cool look.

If you're trying to get back to original, then WWs look good on early 60's models, but not so great on later ones.

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #13
Benny Ben E San Diego, CA, USA 1961 Austin Mini 1964 Ford Cortina 1964 Land Rover Series IIA 1965 Ford Cortina 1965 MG MGB → more	Posted: March 05, 2013 05:02PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 3,448

My '66 had whitewalls originally....

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #14
Jim K James A. Krasnansky Liberty, KY, USA 1970 MG MGB GT "Chloe" 1971 MG MGB GT "Roscoe" 1972 MG MGB "Camilla"	Posted: March 05, 2013 08:22PM Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 7,908

I put studded tires on mine once. At first, I was embarassed about it, but they were worth it. Blackwalls, however.

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #15
pinkyponk Adrian Page Nova Scotia Canada, Canada 1971 MG MGB GT 1973 MG MGB MkIII	Posted: March 05, 2013 08:38PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 2,715

This one looks great.

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #16
kawtoy Shane Nudds Henrietta, NY, USA 1970 MG MGB GT	Posted: March 05, 2013 09:14PM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 857

You are not going to be able to find a set of wheels like that for a B. The bolt pattern and wheel size are non-existent in todays modern wheel market. You would have to have a set custom made which would be in the $5000 range.

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #17
ohlord Rob C North of Seattle, N.W., USA 1971 MG MGB "Bedouin 2"	Posted: March 05, 2013 09:23PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 1,848

Those look like Dayton wires,you can get them from tons of vendors. Don't cost 5grand
and you can get them in MGB offsets in 14-15-and 16's
and they don't need tuning
$350 each take modern tubeless tires

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #18
oldredsel Rick Crosby South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA 1959 Ford Country Sedan "Edsel Villager Station Wagon" 1969 MG MGB GT "Emma" 1997 Dodge Neon 2003 Chevrolet S10 2011 Subaru Forester	Posted: March 05, 2013 10:18PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 1,781

The 1962 MGB of member fmotta14 shod with bias ply whitewalls.

Cheers,

Rick

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #19
jon11 Jon Rosenthall Vaughan, Ontario, Canada 1970 MG MGB "Neville" 2007 BMW 525i "Fritz"	Posted: March 05, 2013 11:38PM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 346

I love the look both ways

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Re: White Walls Yes/No? #20
Speedracer Hap Waldrop Greenville, SC, USA 1967 MG MGB "The Biscuit"	Posted: March 06, 2013 04:51AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 20,310

I think on early car, WWs look great, but as for personal opinion, I would still probably have hard time doing WWs myself. Funny how all things come and go,and then come back in trends, who knows maybe we see a comeback for WW tires on modern cars. When Ii was younger at our family car business, where we dealt with fleet lease cars, it was the heyday of WW tires, and the fleet cars often times came with blackwall tire to save the fleets money, and haiving WWs on them make them sell better, but you didn't want to take perfectly good tires and discard them just because they were blackwall. We had a guy who came by or dealership and he did nothing but put WWs on black wall tire, heck we kept him so busy, we were his only client. He would jack up the car and had the machine that spun the tires, and cut a shallow groove in the side wall, then he used this special rubber paint to mke a balckwall thire a white wall. Also, anyone remember porta-a-walls , LOL smiling smiley

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