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...last year, the new Chevvies are lower by 2.6 in. to 6.3 in. (for the station wagon), have two inches more hip and shoulder room inside. With wrap-around windshields, they have 18% more glass area and visibility; the station wagon even has wrap-around rear windows. Tubeless tires are standard equipment. Optional: power brakes that keep their power even when the engine is stalled, power steering, pushbutton windows, a two-way power seat, and an air-conditioning unit (about $150 extra) that fits under the hood, thus takes up no baggage space...
...TUBELESS TIRES will be standard equipment on most 1955 autos (including all five Chrysler lines). Goodyear tire production is now 50% tubeless, Firestone 60%, Goodrich 75%, and U.S. Rubber expects to be 50% tubeless by Jan. 1. Chief advantages of tubeless tires: they wear longer, have fewer flats, make steering easier...
PACKARD will be out first with tubeless tires at no extra cost. Other automakers will follow. Lincoln will use tubeless tires next year, and Cadillac is testing three makes (Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich), hopes to pick...
Nylon Tires. Three tire companies-Firestone, Goodrich and U.S. Rubber-announced their first nylon cord tires (Goodyear has had one since April). Firestone's is the first tubeless nylon tire, while Goodrich brought out a nylon truck tire, with a tread 46% thicker than usual, which it says will last up to 100,000 miles. U.S. Rubber claims its nylon passenger tire has 95% more bruise resistance than standard tires. Prices run 6% to 15% higher than regular tire lines...
...sale a gun that repairs flat tires by shooting a rubber compound into punctures while the tire is still on the wheel. The compound seals the hole in the tire casing and also patches the inner tube. Each Vulco-Weld Tire Gun contains enough compound to fix 50 tubeless tires or 20 regular ones. Price...