Posted by C. Garbee on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 8:53AM :
In Reply to: ?? posted by Clint Dixon on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 1:50AM :
An interesting tidbit I noticed in July of 2002 is that the Goodyear Extra Grip tires are shown on the Cordovan Tire website as
Power King Super Traction (article number NR-50) tires. Cordovan is a division of TBC Corporation, a large wholesaler/retailer of Private Brand tires. They have a website at: http://www.cordovantires.com/ that has a retailer locator that may be used to find a local dealer who can hopefully procure some of the tires listed on this page. TBC is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Their website is at: http://isysit.com/tbc/. Since Kelly Springfield is part of Goodyear, it is highly possible that the molds and names of the different tread patterns have gotten swapped around depending on the marketing needs of the retailers so it might be a good idea to match a photo from my tire page with the tire at the store when you order.
If you look at my website, you'll notice that the tire that I am currently running (until this weekend when the Michelin 900r16XZL's get mounted) are the Co-Op Grip Spur. This tire is very similar to the Super Traction, and I wonder if is hasn't replaced the Super Traction in some inventories. Also, with the low demand (relatively speaking) of some of these tires, it could be that they haven't made a run of them in a while, but that you can still get them out of inventory if your tire guy can find them...
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