Per your request, here is a picture of my original tire pressure decal on my 67:
There is a funny story behind the overwriting of the 24 with a 26 for the rear tire pressure which I have just got to tell.
I had had this 67 in early 69 for about two months, and it still had its factory bias ply tires at 23,000 miles. I was stationed in Little Creek, VA with the Amphib Seabees, and one cold night I was headed for the Fort Story O club near Virginia Beach. It didn't often get cold in Virginia near the coast but when it did, things just got iced up, and in some low damp places you would get this black ice on the road.
So here I am tooling along at about 60 and I hit this black ice coming up a slight grade from a small bridge. I must have given it a little gas, and all of a sudden the positraction must have kicked in, and I found myself in less then two seconds exactly in the opposite lane, and going in the opposite direction.
At a time like this, you can feel the heat rise behind your ears and everything below all puckered up. I stopped and cooled down, and then thought that maybe I didn't want to go to Virginia Beach afterall. So I went back to Little Creek.
But within the next week, I replaced the original tires with a set of Michelin X radials. The recommended tire pressure for the rears was different for the radials, so I overwrote the tire pressure decal.
Who was thinking about restoration then.
Jerry Fuccillo
#42179
There is a funny story behind the overwriting of the 24 with a 26 for the rear tire pressure which I have just got to tell.
I had had this 67 in early 69 for about two months, and it still had its factory bias ply tires at 23,000 miles. I was stationed in Little Creek, VA with the Amphib Seabees, and one cold night I was headed for the Fort Story O club near Virginia Beach. It didn't often get cold in Virginia near the coast but when it did, things just got iced up, and in some low damp places you would get this black ice on the road.
So here I am tooling along at about 60 and I hit this black ice coming up a slight grade from a small bridge. I must have given it a little gas, and all of a sudden the positraction must have kicked in, and I found myself in less then two seconds exactly in the opposite lane, and going in the opposite direction.
At a time like this, you can feel the heat rise behind your ears and everything below all puckered up. I stopped and cooled down, and then thought that maybe I didn't want to go to Virginia Beach afterall. So I went back to Little Creek.
But within the next week, I replaced the original tires with a set of Michelin X radials. The recommended tire pressure for the rears was different for the radials, so I overwrote the tire pressure decal.
Who was thinking about restoration then.
Jerry Fuccillo
#42179
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