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Old 06-07-2025, 01:36 PM   #2
Flathead Fever
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Default Re: Looking for Ideas on 1932 spare tire and wheel.

I've also thought the same thing, what do you do for a spare when you have two different sized tires. Back when I was kid, I ran larger tires on the rear of a Mustang, I just had a stock sized spare for it. It would work on the rear, but the spider gears would be spinning a bit. I wouldn't want to go cross country like that, but I wouldn't worry about driving it a short distance. Just as long as you have something round that rolls it should be okay until you can get the flat tire fixed. Just make sure to keep the spare aired up. I see people try to install spares only to realize there flat. I filled up my spare every time I filled up the rest of the tires. You can't carry a spare everything for your '32, two spares would take up the entire trunk of a '32 roadster.

When I was mechanic at the phone company, we had to remove all the spares from the vehicles. They felt it was too dangerous to let the guys try and change a flat tire. They just had them towed back to the garage and we patched the tire or put a new one on it. We had a whole room full of new tires, every size we had in the fleet. Probably at least 100 new tires in there.

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