I've been reading the Premium Sportway thread, big props to bringing these back and doing it right. I've never really liked anything from coker
As I'm reading, I keep seeing people bringing up that the 5.20 was originally for a vw bug, and I even seen it on livin the low life I think, OG's talking about how they were originally vw bug tires.
Thats not true. VW Bug's were never on 13's or 14's. 16's in the early 50's, 15's from '53 until the end in 79. 5.60x15 on bias, 155r15 when they started using metric radial. Same with the Ghia. VW bus was the same until 1964, they used 14's but they rolled on 7.00x14's. The squareback, fastback, notchback rolled on 15's it's whole life. 6.00x15's.
I know some of yall especially Skim are real big in the VW game too, so you can back me up on this
So really my question is, what was the 5.20 really used on back in the day? The Corvair? (I don't know enough about them) The Valiant? I'm not out to step on any OG's toe's, but I know my VW's and it wasnt from them, so now I'm curious as to what they were really for originally
As I'm reading, I keep seeing people bringing up that the 5.20 was originally for a vw bug, and I even seen it on livin the low life I think, OG's talking about how they were originally vw bug tires.
Thats not true. VW Bug's were never on 13's or 14's. 16's in the early 50's, 15's from '53 until the end in 79. 5.60x15 on bias, 155r15 when they started using metric radial. Same with the Ghia. VW bus was the same until 1964, they used 14's but they rolled on 7.00x14's. The squareback, fastback, notchback rolled on 15's it's whole life. 6.00x15's.
I know some of yall especially Skim are real big in the VW game too, so you can back me up on this
So really my question is, what was the 5.20 really used on back in the day? The Corvair? (I don't know enough about them) The Valiant? I'm not out to step on any OG's toe's, but I know my VW's and it wasnt from them, so now I'm curious as to what they were really for originally
