One part of Art's Green Monster is still kicking around. The story goes like this.
Art needed some tires for the Green Monster, Firestone obliged and made him quite a few. Al Teague bought some of those tires and ran them for years. My project, Black Lightning, needed a tire that would be good for around 350 mph. John Hanson, a Vincent owner friend of mine, lived but a few blocks away from Al Teague's shop. John asked Teague if he'd like to part with a couple of usable Firestones. Al and John rounded up four of them, and John and I bought all four of them for the Vincent streamliner. They had been properly stored over the years and had little to no weather checking. Two were new, never run, and two had been run. The rule of thumb on these tires, as there's only about 1/16" rubber covering each of the plys, is to run them until you have reached the fourth layer of cords. They require a haircut between runs. My horsepower in speed is nowhere close to Teague's 430+mph machine, so undoubtably the tires are good for a few more years. One mounted and one spare will be going to the 2013 Shootout on my Vincent streamliner.
See Y'all There,
Max
P.S. Wasn't it nice of Art having the foresight to know that I would be needing those tires?
#:^)#
