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I'm a 1942 model.
1955: First car was a Model A with blackwalls
1956 Second car was a Model A with used blackwall radials from my neighbors Porsche.
1958 First car that I could legally drive: blackwalls, then whitewalls when I could afford them
1958-1962: All whitewalls.
62-mid 70's: Blackwalls on all hot rods and sports cars. WW on modern cars
late seventies to present: All blackwalls
Seems like the mid fifties to mid seventies whitewalls were required to be really cool. The coolest were the Vouges sp? with the checkered whitewalls and the V painted red. Never could afford those. I remember this was and remains a hot topic from the mid fifties to the present. None of this is the final word, only another old man's rambling about how it was in my day and my neighborhood.
PS I think whoever set up the spell checker likes whitewalls because it always changes blackwalls to blackballs. I think blackballs are a condition you get from bouncing down the freeway on ridiculous big wheels with little thin tires. ;<)