0 a tyre with a white stripe around it, or a white side
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New tires were wrapped in paper for shipping, to keep the white stripe clean, and for preventing the black of other tires from rubbing on the whitewall side.
They are especially popular for cars with whitewall tires, which easily lose their white coating when scraped against the curb.
Whitewall tires were a popular option on new cars during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as in the replacement market.
Wheels were steel, dressed up with full-diameter chrome hubcaps and 4-ply 6.40 x 15-inch whitewall tires.
Automobile designs incorporating streamlining eventually rendered the two-sided whitewall obsolete.
Fender skirts were often paired with whitewall tires.
Standard equipment included power steering and power front disk and rear drum brakes, as well as 15-inch wheels with fiberglass belted radial whitewall tires.
Whitewall tires, once a regular feature of kits, fell out of style and were eschewed for plain blackwalls.
