"My Classic Tire": Balancer Showdown!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มี.ค. 2018
- Hey, We're back! More of the highest quality investigative automotive journalism this time as we pitch our 1950's tire balancer against its newer electronic counterpart. We've chosen this early 70s economy tire and fitted it to our Studebaker wheel for maximum aesthetic enjoyment without regard to cornering prowess.
Thanks again to everyone who sent so many nice notes after we lost my dear Stel last month. I just needed some time off, and to spend some time with Francine, who got less attention than was ideal when Stel was ill. I'll be putting up videos regularly again now; I definitely have enough on the go!
All the best from me and Francine and the rest of the guys that help out on these heaps just for the laughs!
Cheers,
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Thanks CWM, videos like this are the next best thing to actually hanging out in your garage knocking back the brews, smoking whatever, and just shootin' the shit.
I'm sure Stella was happy with you and felt loved. We will all miss her. She was fortunate to enjoy so many cool rides, thanks to you. Let the vintage mania continue!
Brings back old memories of my high school days working at the home town Sears automotive department. I was the number one tire changer, muffler changer, shock changer and was fortunate to experience the transition from bias-ply to radial tires. The smell of new bias-ply and radial tires from the early seventies still permeate my hairy nostrils to this day.
long day at work , crack a beer and watch my classic tire .perfect. thanks for the Vid !
Glad to see you back old friend. We missed you. I was having cold war motors withdrawals.
Hey, thanks very much for saying so and for sticking around...Lots more soon now that I'm so far behind! Cheers...
Hopefully going to start the N.Carolina version of Cold war motors soon.
Could not have said it better. Looking forward to the NC version of CWM. Seems like there’s a lot of old American iron down there.....
Still use my old Ken Tool bubble balancer from the sixties. works great! I always put half of the weight it calls for on the backside of the wheel instead of all on the front.
Nothing like old dry rotted tires that still exist ha ha. I really enjoy these videos.
Great to have you and Francine back! Your videos have inspired me to finally restore my dad's 1975 Ford F-150. He wanted to do so but sadly cancer took him in 2005.
I’m so happy the agents and Franckers are back! 👍😄
Welcome back! I always look forward to My Classic Tire....I have no life. I was shocked when you said that tire is from the 70's, I never would've believed it was that new. It's good to see you back again, keepin' on keepin' on
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you (so much!) that you are back. I really missed your cool stuff and I appreciate it always. Sooo great to see you coming back, hoped for it very strong! I beg your pardon but I wasn't able to comment the last two videos because of tears! Maybe more later/sometime....
Frankers looks absolutely great, so happy and carefree. Also like as if Francine had been treated with powdered sugar, (n)ice white on black!
God bless you all.
Thank god you are back I was getting a little worried, but none of that matters now, YOUR BACK!!!! Thank god and Amen, have a great day or night or whatever the hell it is for you, cheers from Massachusetts!
That medallion 200 is feeling pretty loved up.
The 1952 Chevrolet User's Guide gave the same mis-inflation info. Volkswagens through the late 1950s and maybe beyond used 5.60-15 tires and standard tire size on 1958 Rambler Supers was 6.40-15. Here in the not so mysterious really East, many, if not most service stations used static (bubble) balancers. Once in a while, a large station would be equipped with a dynamic on the car balancer. Thank you for an enjoyable and informative episode.
Quite frankly one of the best shows on the tube. I even learned some stuff.
Hey it's good to see you guys! It's nice to know I'm not the only one that thinks old tires are cool. I have an old bubble balancer that my wife's uncle had in his service station in the '60s and early '70s. Thanks for the video.
Glad to see you back, and know the madness will continue!
I can't go to any old junkyards now with out playing my classic tire the whole time I'm there. Lol
I needed this. Totally pointless video!!! Love it. Thank you. Seriously. Love you guys!
I remember years ago we had a 14x7 Oldsmobile rally wheel laying around with a Montgomery Ward belted bias ply tire on it. I don't know what ever happened to it. Good ole memories!
Thanks Scott. Good to see you back. Having been through your grief with our beloved kids I felt you would be able to see your way back but it's not easy.
I speak for a Grateful Nation when I say we welcome Francine as our New Mascot!
Since I grew up in a family that owned a succession of Studebakers I immediately recognized the wheel cover in the opening scene. Looks like the ones on our 1956 Commander.
Thank God, finally a vintage tire channel.
So glad see you back. frankers is showing us my classic shredder.
Hi Scott. I'm so glad to see you on my screen again. Frankers might be a bit of a danger for upholstery stuff in old cars. Thrilled by the kind of hairstyle she will chose next.
Great to see you back Scott and lovely to see you dedicate your videos to Stel, l am sure she is with you in spirit and looking over you always. Fantastic MCT episode -cheers
Watching this was a delightfully fun way to waste time! Really looking forward to more.
Priceless !!!!.........Keep 'em coming there Scott
Good to see you back!
So good to have you back Scott!
Never had so many laughs watching some one balance tires and i used to mount and balance tires. Thanks ! Until next time, Cheers!
It is so very good to see you back! And with an episode of MCT, no less? Bloody marvelous. Thanks for the upload.
Nick's Garage fabulous shit you’re offering tonight.
I should sleep soundly after this blog.
I am so happy to see you back and am looking forward to new adventures with you, your agents, and Frankers. The Citroen will be fun to watch being restored and am looking VERY forward to any motorcycles being done and whatever else you have planned.
I really could have used the Float-o-matic on the Citroen 11B. Since the wheels had the hubcap mounting bar across the centre hole no shops with modern gear could do anything. Good to have you back in video production!
Now I know where to go for my post-apocalyptic, grid-down-scenario wheel balancing! :)
lmao! more like my classic tire eater, holy shredder frankers! glad you're back and up to your old tricks. my life just wouldn't be complete without "my classick tire" thank you . definitely have to look for "neighborhoody" measurement s next time I've got my head in the Chiltons.
Nice to see you back , you're one of my can't miss on YT . Salutation from Québec city .
woohoo !!! Welcome back ! All the best and plenty of good thoughts from switzerland !
Nothing better for a late-winter's Friday afternoon than to turn on TH-cam and discover a new CWM episode waiting to be viewed. Better yet, it's an episode of "My Classic Tire", the most brilliant situation-comedy(?!!) ever. Good to have you back, and, as always, thanks fer takin' us along...
My Classic Tire is my favorite show ever. Would binge.
Also took me back to my blue Rambler station wagon.
wow, that all original float-o-matic with the box and instructions and everything, what a real treat
Thats amazing the Float-O-Matic wheel balancing kit and its completely intact. Those are handy to have if you cant make it down to Les Schwab for some wheel balancing or for antique cars. The my classic tire treatment looked good. Francine playing in the snow was what My Dog Chubby was doing in my yard two days ago when We got 3 1/2 ft of snow not normal for here in the high desert of Lemmon Valley Nevada.
Really nice to see your video . Always entertaining! Anxiously awaiting your next one Scott.
Hey thanks; I'm gonna start really putting them out now...Hope you guys dig it! Cheers from me and Frankers...
Im glad to see yall back on youtube .Take care my Canadaian friends.
As always, learn something new. Best to all.
Great to see you and your budz back in action, keep on truckin!
Frankers is a hoot😊 found the Valerie June tune on a Yukon Road trip vid, the Citroen is a brave project with spaghetti wiring moved for bodywork, looking forward to the next My classic Tyre Dog, Dig 👌
As you quoted , the tire never thought of getting such nice care in its older condition . I never thought I would be watching so much fuss over an old tire either . but hey ! , it is Classic Tire . you Agents get a thumbs up for originality . Thanks Guy's . Ray in Pa U.S.A.
Glad to see you back, life could be hard sometimes especially after a lost, i experience one myself lately, but seeing a Coldwar motors video is the kind of things that make life a little easier to survive, you make us smile back again thinking of the old crap we use to use when we where young, when we start that first job in a dealer garage back in the 80's. thanks for still being there.
" 'Coeur d'Alene', the newest feature by mega studio, Medallion 200, hit a snag in production yesterday when Frankers Newtread, as 'Bubbles Balancer"' (her first starring role), lost interest in The Method due to introduction of a prop deemed chewable." --- Welcome back, CWM!
My Classic Tire: Saving automotive history, one classic tire at a time! Love it!
Glad you decided to keep making videos. I see Frankers has her own demolition area.For My Classic Tire I believe the technical Canadian term is "Tire Tidy" EH? But then what do I know I'm in Wisconsin. You guys always make my day when a new video comes up. Thanks!
Saturday morning is perfect with ‘My ClassicTyre’ and Ernie the border collie sleeping on my wife’s favourite Swedish blanket. Snow in southern England in April today, what is happening to the climate. Good to have you guys restoring stuff. best wishes Mark
Welcome back my friend, glad to see your doin' good ! Nice vid, with these kind of gems, I'm pretty sure we'll get to see My Classic Tire on the cover of TV Guide LOL !
Happy to see your return....time heals all wounds.
Awesome coincidence, I just bought a bubble balancer from Princess Auto to balance the old polyglass Goodyears on my 57 F100. works okay and saved me the cost of the balancer if I went to Crappy Tire! The old F100 maxes out at 80k so the bubble balancer was plenty good enough.
Brilliant ...love the show.. do you remember Atlas Bucrons made with butal rubber, very soft but you could leave amazing rubber when burning out.. (1961)? Fun to watch ..never give up never give up...
Thanks again for a great video and like most dog lovers I will miss seeing Stella she was one of the reasons why like your video's
Happy to have you back. I have also been suffering withdrawals. I have an old Alemite bubble balancer from the '50's. It seems to work just fine (No electronic problems). There were some Alemite balancers that spun the wheels on the car and balanced the drums, wheels and tires as a unit. As I remember there were 4 knobs you messed with to determine weight and placement. I'm waiting with baited breath (just ate a pizza with anchovies) for the next adventure.
I can't believe that you guys cant get that fine Studebaker running ! Sure are glad to see you all back in action !!
Oh! We could, but the budget is zero and it has two destroyed rod bearings...It might run for a few minutes, but then it would be totaled, so I'm leaving it alone. It also has two broken valves, now that I think about it...Just too many better cars that need less work and less money! Cheers, and thanks for the note!
Who would have thought a tire balancing video would be so entertaining. Thank you and welcome back.
Welcome back boys. Very enjoyable edition of My Classic Tire.
I love my classic tire. I used to ride ATVs near an old dump and there were so many old tires out there, wide ovals and such. I could spend hours digging through and seeing the classics. Keep them coming.
Missed the debut of the new MCT format by a few days, but love the pageantry; the elbow grease; the witty repartee. If there's a way you can have Francine's head shots in slo-mo, it would add some drama and pizzazz. But hey, I'll take any and all episodes of MCT regardless of how you bake them.
Good to see ya back bud, keep em coming 😀
Thank you for keeping it up and keeping it real! Cheers guys!
thank God your back I didn't know what to do without my classic tire.
I've been watching Albanian lawn bowling just not the same....no tires at all.
good to see you back at it
Another irreverently triumphant masterpiece, and Frankers is a scene-stealer for sure. 9.91/10
You Guys always crack me up. Glad you decided to keep making videos.I love my classic tire. I love the numeric amount of Z for side wall protection. Deftly will keep the curbs at bay. sometimes you wonder what were they think or were they at all.
Great to see your back, Francers seems to be making my classic packing, this episode we test the breaking strain on styrene strips.
Bravo Scott! Love those classic tires (and hub cabs), so very nice to see you and the agents hit another one out of the park. Also I want to compliment you Frankers, on your commentary. You really tore it up baby! Thank you all for lighting up my evening. It's great to see you again guys. Cheers, from North Carolina!
That was awesome. Glad to have you back. Pups, eh? She'll grow up, lol. That old balancer is pretty bang on. Good stuff.
I couldn't help noticing Stella's absence in other videos, then read your comments in this one.
My deepest belated sympathy to you in her loss.
The old reliable FLOAT-O-MATIC! I remember when bubble balancers is all we had.
I had a bubble balancer for many years and always got good results with it. Never saw a Float-a-matic though. That's minimalism at its finest!
Always great to get a notice of a new video from Coldwarmotors. Simpsons Sears sold a full line of automotive repairs including Allstate tires and batteries.
My experience is bubble balancer is its good to 90mph,my old sleds will never go that fast. I have a pal that has a bubble balancer from Harbor Freight, it works
Nothing to dislike here. Interesting little device to balance and great entertainment!
Good to have you back! Frankers looks great and will make her mark on the show! Stella is still missed but glad we have her in older videos. The "Cold War Motors" logo needs to be T-Shirted and Bumper Stickered. I have a '50 Plymouth and '47 Dodge that would display them proudly! Thanks for the entertainment, enjoyment and information. Great episode from you and the agents.
Hi! Thanks very much for the note and the kind words...I'll have that exact sticker ready here very shortly, actually, and shirts, too! I would be honored to have them on your machines... I'll do a video about the shirts and stickers as soon as they're ready! Cheers from us here...
Great to hear! My "machines" will be anxiously awaiting the stickers. Do keep us informed and thanks again for the channel, it's great.
Super Video and Thanks for "my classic tire" Always a favorite. CHEERS
Beautiful thanks😆
The font obviously was Latex Fixed Width Serif. I remember tire shops that used bubble level "balancing" machines like that, but bigger and heavier back in the 1950s. "Dynamic balancing" cost more and only few shops had the machines. In general, the cars were so bad that out-of-balance tires were the least of the problems. Thanks for the smiles.
Yes, I got my Coldwarmotors fix. I like "My Classic Tire." Thanks for all that you do. It's good to see you back.
The float type balancer we used to use had a red circle on top. When you got the bubble in the red circle, the tire was balanced. I would put it up against spin balancers any day!!
Yass Sir! I'm so glad you're back!
Love the same old shit. Now, I've got to find a set of Medallion 200's.We south Texans love Alberta. Thanks.
Fantastic to see you back!
Back in 1976 I had a 62 chev with a set of medallion bias plys,summers on front snows on back!
Cold war motors
Sick cars for a sick planet... that needs to be on a t-shirt!!! I'd buy one!!!
Yeah I'd buy a couple as well.
Hear hear!!
Hell Yeah! Me too!
Coming very soon guys; glad to hear I'll at least get rid of a few! Cheers...
Bumper stickers!
classic episode of my classic tire!!! Love all your videos they make my day
This really made my morning. Coffee and my classic tire.So glad that you boys are back. this day couldent start better.
Sigge.
"too bad the rest of the car is utter rubbish" I had to laugh at this, as it struck a chord with my own cars :D
Very pleased to see you back on here! I've got a Sears Allstate that's way past its use by, I can't bring myself to get rid of it. I blame you enTIREly!
Scott,
In the history of the world, I don't think a POS tire ever got so much love and attention. Thank God for that! Well, someone had to do it and I'm glad it was you. The world needs more "My Classic Tire" episodes in the worst possible way.
It was nice to see, I think, Francine? having such a good time in the snow.
Regards, Tom
YEAH! Francine just chewing the shit out of everything , HA puppies, so happy you and crew are back , LOVE IT !
theres no doubt that this episode is destined to become (dare I say it?) a classic.
Great to see you back. I love the floating eye-ball wheel balancer...
Nice to see you again, that was great. Yeah, watched to the very end, good job.
"There are pieces coming off......em..... but, THERE SMALL" Aw man not sure why i found that so funny but i did. Sounds like some justification i have used on various junk yard bits and bobs.
I am happy to see you back at the classic tires! I must say that cast member Francine is chewin' up the scenery!
Another great one!! Hope your doing good man!!