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Old 09-12-2011, 07:35 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Go watch the car chase scene from a 1950's James Bond film where the car's tires are squealing while they are taking curves at speeds that today's cars would consider to be a normal speed to take a curve without getting any tire squeal. Those were bias ply tires compared to modern radials.

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