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nolabear

(41,959 posts)
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:09 PM Jun 2014

Dumb question maybe, but do car tires HAVE to be black?

I was thinking as I drove today that if tires could be different colors we could buy them for our cars like cute shoes. Of course I was thinking this as I drove back from the service dept. after having had to have them replaced. *sigh*

But really...

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Dumb question maybe, but do car tires HAVE to be black? (Original Post) nolabear Jun 2014 OP
I remember white sidewall tires but haven't seen those in years... CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2014 #1
Saw these bad boys on a very nice DeSoto the other day! Agschmid Jun 2014 #7
Oh, those bad boys are very cool! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2014 #9
many, many years ago someone made some with red stripes rurallib Jun 2014 #17
I have seen bicycle tires in yellow and orange. Eleanors38 Jun 2014 #14
"When I am an old woman my tires shall be purple," LOL! pinboy3niner Jun 2014 #2
I had forgotten that cute old poem: patricia92243 Jun 2014 #12
"...and a big Panama with a purple hat band." Eleanors38 Jun 2014 #13
No Mnpaul Jun 2014 #3
OMG That is AWESOME! nolabear Jun 2014 #5
We're gonna need... pinboy3niner Jun 2014 #8
lol. n/t orleans Jun 2014 #10
My sister says they'll just get dirty. nolabear Jun 2014 #15
Awesome! I want the turquoise ones. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2014 #6
you have given me a new definition to the word retire! n/t orleans Jun 2014 #11
And do they have to be air-filled? valerief Jun 2014 #4
Like Henry Ford said, whistler162 Jun 2014 #16

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
17. many, many years ago someone made some with red stripes
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 09:32 PM
Jun 2014

never really caught on

Seen some different colors on clown cars over the years.

patricia92243

(12,595 posts)
12. I had forgotten that cute old poem:
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 03:19 AM
Jun 2014

When I Am Old.


When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me,
And I shall spend my pension
on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals,
and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired,
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells,
And run my stick along the public railings,
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens,
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat,
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go,
Or only bread and pickle for a week,
And hoard pens and pencils and beer mats
and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry,
And pay our rent and not swear in the street,
And set a good example for the children.
We will have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me
are not too shocked and surprised,
When suddenly I am old
and start to wear purple!

Jenny Joseph

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