How do we get a company to make good tires for a Cobra?

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by 767Jockey

The whole Coker thing confuses me. Looking through their product line, I don't see a single market/car type they serve that looks bigger than the Cobra market. Why in the world would they not be interested? We really need some inside industy contacts to try to get the ball rolling on this. Someone with a whole lot more industry insight and experience than I have, that's for sure.

Perhaps that is how they survive. They want 50 or 100 type orders based on a few basic sizes. Making 100,000 tires would be a daunting task. Then there's keeping the pipeline fresh. After you sell to the one's you're going to capture, say it's 20%, there isn't much follow on business.

PS. My car had the Goodyear "F1 supercar" tire that was the predecessor of the ones used on the Ford GT and then the GT500. I thought they looked pretty good. But they were hard as hockey pucks when cold (just as the GT/GT500 tires were).

As discussed many times, the Billboards are a bias ply tire. It's best you not look at high speed film of them at speed on a racetrack. They look like balloons about to pop. I was offered a set by someone that took them off because of the handling problems someone else reported here. On the other hand you've got to remember that the Shelby crew drove those tires at nearly 200MPH on the straights at Le Mans.