Tall skinny pizzacutter tire options

[Andice]

Fetch: My tires don't rub anything when I turn. And they are skinny enough to leave a smaller footprint so it helps with the steering - especially at a standstill. Not radials however. Goodyear Traction Hi-Milers.

[Andice]

Here is a better shot

[Quigley]

225/75/16 Work perfect on my 66 1/2 ton. Speedometer is dead on and NO issues. If yours came with 15s I would think 225s would work well with the skinny original rims. My 2 cents worth. Dave

[Ed Snyder]

As long as others are posting their 2 cents worth, I thought I'd post mine too. Fetch, I think you're trying to stay with your original 15" wheels. If you could upgrade to 16" wheels you could fit much taller tires, like my favorite size for our trucks -- 235/85-16. They're almost 32" tall and help fill out the wheel well opening. The '66 in the photo below has that size on it.

At the risk of going off-topic, I'd like to comment on the styling of a lot of the new pickups. The manufacturers seem to be trying to out-do each other, making each new generation of truck more massive-looking with huge chrome (plastic) grilles. Part of that effort to attract buyers who want to project a more macho image seems to be designing in a big gap between the tops of the tires and the lower edges of the fender lips above them. I think that's a move in the wrong direction. Most of the newer car designers are getting it right -- small gaps, not big gaps.

[Ed Snyder]

Here's one more photo, just to show how well a 33" tall tire fills out the wheel well opening. Anything much taller than that would probably rub somewhere.

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Ed, that look is almost exactly what I'd like to end up with. A tad skinnier maybe, but the outside looks perfect.

[Ed Snyder]

Another size you might consider, Fetch, if you can find some 16" wheels is the old 7.50 x 16. They're about 31" tall and 7-1/2" wide. I had them on the 1965 GMC half ton 4x4 pickup I owned about 10 years ago. They are getting harder to find now though. But you can find them if you do enough Googling. There's some on eBay right now:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-TIRES-7-...p2054897.l4275

[BarryGMC]

235-85-16 cooper discover is my favorite tire. Its really a replacement for 750-16. Tall skinny and tough. Barry

[Ed Snyder]

The 235/85-16 is my favorite size too, Barry, but although it's about the same diameter as the 7.50x16, it's almost 2 inches wider. Fetch said he's looking for a "skinny" tire.