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Motor Sport Magazine April 1962


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Turning out a cupboard, I very nearly put this mag in the recycling, just in time saw a "reader's car survey" of the TR2 and 3. Interesting reading. Apparently 78% of respondents were on Michelin Xs. Interestingly only 0.7% admit to having a 2.2 engine. That looks like only one person owning up! JJC

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Most of us ran our TRs on Michelin X in those days - lasted for ever, but scary when rain fell after a prolonged dry period. I can remember involuntarily executing a 180 degree turn as my TR2 left Hyde Park corner on an August day, even though, knowing that the shower would have made the road slippery, I had reduced speed considerably! I had to reverse down the road some distance from the roundabout's exit before I could turn the car round.

Eventually, I wore out the Xs and changed to G800s - a revelation!

Ian Cornish

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In 1967 I was working on a construction site and driving company Ford Anglia 105e and like all company cars it was shod with Michelin Xs. Longest lasting tyres you could buy I suspect but minimal grip on the wet. I wasn't lucky enough to just to a 180, I put my car through a hedge.

 

Rgds Ian

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In 1990 as I finished my TR3A body-off restoration, I bought 5 Michelin 165 - 15 R tyres. I drove 43,000 miles on those same 4 main tyres but started to get bias ply separation in 2000, so I had to change them. The spare which I never used is now 25 years old since manufacture and my present Vredesteins will be 10 year old this spring - so it'll be time to change them. I never want to drive on tyres that are more that 10 years old.

Edited by Don Elliott
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Xs were dangerous but Xs one end and XASs at the other were lethal and scared the **** out of me as a new TR3A driver in 1972. Fortunately, a local tyre specialist did me a good deal so that I could have XASs all round - the best part of that car (the 'Hammerite Horror"). Sadly, the wheels and tyres were temporarily on my TR4A when I sold it and I've never been able to afford XASs again.

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