Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum
General Category => Henry J & Allstate Forum => Topic started by: Dino on January 25, 2013, 10:01:10 PM
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Spring is coming and I need for someone that has information about where I can buy Tires, and if I can buy them at any Tire store. Also the car runs very nice but needs drivers side floor reair not sure where to get floor parts or can I just weld a piece of steel in where its bad. Not hole floor. Please Help.
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Frazer Manhattans used a 7.10 x 15 sized tire; the original type used on the production line were tube type tires. Previously, Goodyear tire stores were franchised for their line of vintage motor vehicle tires (and Goodyear was the main supplier to K-F for tires). The basic tires were blackwalls (the Goodyear is a whitewall) with whitewalls as an option. Note that current Goodyear production whitewall width is not the same as offered by the company back in 1947. If the Goodyear store in your area (and I am talking a factory store) can no longer offer the line, you will have to order through Universal, Coker, or some other vintage tire company listed in an old car magazine like HEMMINGS or OLD CARS WEEKLY. They have catalogs available and list various brands for this type of application.
Be advised that your wheels may not be compatable with the older type bias-ply tires, especially if radials are currently on your car.
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Lucas Tire Co. in Long Beach CA has the correct Goodyear whitewalls for your car and they have a 4 1/4" wide whitewall. 1947 Manhattan's were the first Frazer to be equipped with whitewalls after WWII as whitewalls were not available until March of 1947, the same month that the Manhattan was introduced. eBay has a supplier of K-F floor pans that has an auction for either side running every week.