Street Car Slicks - Your Cheating Heart  Street Legal Slicks
Wayne Scraba Jun 1, 2000 0 Comment(s) Sucp_0006_01_z
Street_legal_slicks 2/11  It looks like a slick. It feels like a
slick. It hooks like a slick.It must be a slick. We have news
for you. It's not. It's a "ET Street" tire from the folks at
Mickey Thompson. Basically, this is a specialized tire designed
solely for the burgeoning Quickest Street Car marketplace. While
these tires might look like slicks, there are a number of
differences between the two types. Some of the differences are
subtle. Some aren't.  When '55-56-57 Chevys were almost new, the
hot tire setup for a fast car was a set of recapped Atlas
Bucrons. Eventually tire technology evolved to the point where
dedicated drag slicks were readily available. Decades after
recap slicks made their debut, everything came full circle:
Street tires with a tread pattern that offered the hook of a
slick were developed. And with that came classes of competition
where "street" tires with a tread patter