WOW NOS Eagle GT's on Ebay

[FlyinGN]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=2446775 284



nice to have on a restored TR for sure..

[jmidolo]

Wow...1000 bux for a set of 50 dollar tires.... I dont see them flying off the shelf at that price!! LOL But, you never know.

[troGNman]

They're not raised white letter.

[Chuck Leeper]

Let's see, about 15 yrs old, and no dry rot??
The ozone exposure would make these things "harder than the back of Superman's head"!!!

They'd be ok, til you tried to stretch one on a tire mounting machine.....
$1000?? He's sniffin something besides ozone!!

[FlyinGN]

Yes they are Chuck! lol

Originally posted by troGNman
They're not raised white letter.

[jmidolo]

Originally posted by troGNman
They're not raised white letter.

I believe they are raised white letter on the inside, black on the outside....

[Drew L]

There was a piece on old tires on Nightline or 60 Minutes II a couple months back. The D.O.T. is trying to put a expiration date on tires that are ten years old. They eluded to the Firestone debacle. Drew

[salvageV6]

Yeah but the Firestones were exploding brand new too.

Don't see how they can relate the two.

Dry rotted tires are fine on showcars.

[bishir]

Wow, I got the original front two in the shed that I'll gladly sell for half that! Seriously, if I knew they were worth that much I wouldn't have burned down the rears before I bought some 275/60s I'm sure they are now in a some uncontrollable burning tire pile by now.....

[troGNman]

Originally posted by jmidolo
I believe they are raised white letter on the inside, black on the outside....

My oversight.

I remember having a hard time finding the ROWL GT's back in 1990. The tire store was trying to sell me GTII's.

My '86 GN had the $102 option for raised white letters.

[88 CuttyClassic]

eagle Gt's are hardly $50 tires. Unlike Gt II's, the original Eagle Gt's were a performance tire. They were very stiff. The gt II's are nothing more than an appearance tire for the people that want to look OEM, thats why the outlines white letter version is available in 215/65/15. My dad put Eagle Gt's on his 77 vette in 1984 and i think they were $125 then. We just took them off and compared them to the GTII's i put on my Hurst olds and the difference was Huge. I couldn't even push the Gt's down at all. For $1000 dollars thou, i'll stick with the GTII's. I would love to have the Gt's for originality but I'm not driving the car that hard that i need the performance of the original GT's.

[1badTTA]

Well as long as they hold air they should be good for 100,000 miles as hard as they probably are by now. I honestly don't see them going for $1000 though, but who knows, maybe someone will want them for a show queen.

[99Formula]

I think that guy picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Peter

[turbofish38]

Its probally a moot point anyway. If the demand is there somebody like Coker Tire would be reproducing them by the thousands, and for a $125 apiece. I never saw a car get points at a show for having the ORIGINAL tires. The 1982 Camaro was the first car to get P215 Eagles and I bet by the year 2007 somebody will be reproducing them. BTW was anybody smart enough(or crazy enough) to by a set of GNX take offs off of Hemmings Motor News back in 1988. I think they went for $500 a set(wheels and rubber!).

Eric Fisher

[88 CuttyClassic]

the reason why goodyear still makes the GT II's in white outlined 215/65/15 is for these car. Why they just don't take the II off is beyond me. The fact is GT's were a great selling tire. They were good for performance. The II's are nothing more than appearance, they aren't that great for performance.

[Gary Wells]

FWIW & IMHO:
ohhh, I have to disagree with some of the comments being said here regarding a comparision of the 2 tires in question.
I thought the same thing regarding this question here up until I bought a pristine, showroom condition, garaged its whole life '87 Turbo-T about 3 months age with about 8.4K miles on the clock.
I had at that time another '87 Turbo-T with 117K miles on the clock that I had been using as a daily driver. It was shoed with a brand new set of GTII'S. Both are now and were at the time I owned both bone stock. I hate to say it but the car with the GTII'S handled slightly better, especially in the corners. The car with the original GT'S seemed like the tires were not quite as stiff,especially on the sidewalls as the GTII'S. Just my opinion, but I did drive both during the week for about 3 months to work up until I sold the one with 117K miles to a friend
However, in straight line acceleration, maybe the original GT'S bit better, but I do like the GTII'S over the originals for most applications.

[PNYKLR]

He also has a stripped GN for $1000 on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...Name= MERC_VI

[88 CuttyClassic]

Originally posted by Wells
The car with the original GT'S seemed like the tires were not quite as stiff,especially on the sidewalls as the GTII'S.

i would strongly disagree with that. There is still a worn set of GT's that were on my dads vette on the side of his shop and those MF'ers are so stiff in the sidewall its ridiculous. They are the exact tires that would have been on a hurst/gn/ss. It obvious in the cost too, the GT's were like well over 100 in the 80's and now a supposedly better GT II is like $55 a tire? i seriously doubt that. after that those GT's my dad put BFG radial ta's on his vette and the car is all over the road with those.

[Gary Wells]

Well, in about 2 years I will have a better idea when the org GTII'S on my new car wear out/down and I will probably replace them with whatever is the most current Goodyear Eagle GT set-up.