Could have been worse... I expected that they would use radium to make the tires glow...

@brokeandtired

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that would have been a shit show.

@observingrogue7652

Жыл бұрын

Brake dust shouldn't contain asbestos, but I'm still worried exhaust heat shields still do. I deliver things for a living by bike, and I should wear some kind of mask under my helmet, and move to an off grid wilderness home ASAP, because city air contains a lot of crap. Tire dust, brake dust, exhausts fumes, people smoking, construction dust, cleaning & painting fumes. Then go back in time, or on an airfield today, and have lead in fuel. Thank goodness or luck radium was never used automotivly, maybe beyond a clock.

@observingrogue7652

Жыл бұрын

Vehicles get cabin filters, including premium upgrades for finer particles and even smells. Bikers got nothing. I'm looking into helmet and home filters now.

@brett4264

Жыл бұрын

LOL!!!

@awolfalone2006

Жыл бұрын

@@observingrogue7652 In the US, asbestos has been reduced in automotive uses, but not completely removed. A hazard of my job. They aren't completely made of the material anymore, like the brake shoes on my '54 GMC are, but do still contain the stuff.

Can guarantee you'd find these tyres in RGB on a clapped out Civic had they become the norm.

@giovanni6643

Жыл бұрын

If the tires were lighter, more durable, could work reasonably well in imperfect conditions, weren't prone to melt just by using them as intended, and were obtainable by the average person at some point there's no doubt it will end up on some clapped out cars.

@INTERNETXPL0RER

Жыл бұрын

@@giovanni6643 what i think Dan is trying to say is people who mod their clapped out 2006 honda civic, don't really have taste or common sense. they make mods to their car to distract from the gaping rust hole in the fender instead of actually replacing the fender.

@LukeDude759

Жыл бұрын

I've actually seen quite a few lifted trucks that have lights around the inside of the rim. Not exactly the same concept, but it's about as close as we can realistically get.

@MAGGOT_VOMIT

Жыл бұрын

...with 12 stickers.

@kentbeitel9966

Жыл бұрын

Can’t forget about matching neon lights 😂 and the autozone exhaust

As a teenager in the 60's, I saw a car drive by at night with the blue glowing tires. Amazing!

If they could have made operable versions of these I feel they would have sold well in the 90s.

@jimdennis2451

Жыл бұрын

Gold tires and spinners.

@JackDesert

Жыл бұрын

Highly florecent sidewalls and a LED kit

@dmrr7739

Жыл бұрын

Around that time, there were predictions in the car magazines for colored tires - not transparent illuminated tires - but pigmented rubber. As this was the era of neon concept cars, manufacturers were predicting OEM tires in hot pink and lime green. Obviously it didn’t succeed, probably in part due to the trouble of matching pigmented material to painted material.

@Krullmatic

Жыл бұрын

Yep, with ground effects on the car as well lol.

@benjaminpmartin

Жыл бұрын

@@dmrr7739 Interest fact! I'm sure that 'key lime,' swiftly turning into, 'baby vomit green,' from use didn't help matter.

My dad told a story of how, during WW2 his dad had difficulty getting tires because rationing. But one time he got some tires that wore well, were made of some synthetic rubber, and were completely useless if there was one drop of rainwater on the roads.I wonder if these were the same material described here.

@jwalster9412

Жыл бұрын

Synthetic rubber tires were unheard of back then. But now there so main stream that crossplys are almost cool.

@TheHenirik

Жыл бұрын

@@jwalster9412 synthetic tires were certainly used during the war, and synthetic rubbers wasnt exactly new at the time either. and in certain circles crossply tires with 60-70 year old thread patterns are among the cooler thing you can get for a car.

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHenirik Indeed, although I think you mean ‘tread’ patterns. They were of course threaded with (usually) nylon.

@scottmantooth8785

Жыл бұрын

*sounds like it*

@wintonhudelson2252

Жыл бұрын

The earliest tires were cotton fabric on the interior prior to vulcanizing process on each tire. Later Rayon was used, then nylon became the belting of choice. Steel belting came later. Through these changes, material stability was an issue. Some of these tires would "Grow" in size during driving situations, especially in the heat.

"because people are idiots and will buy anything" is a common refrain in some of Simon's channels.

@a_man_named_daaave

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a slogan of an ad featured on brain blaze

@robkal56

Жыл бұрын

There is a term for this: fashion

@rodberger6639

Жыл бұрын

Leave it to Goodyear to come up with an idea this STUPID !!!

@Sideprojects

Жыл бұрын

Let me tell you about Raid Shadow Legends.

@griffinmckenzie7203

Жыл бұрын

I mean, it's incredibly correct.

I just watched a 12 minutes of content telling me how terrible these tires where, i’ve never heard about them before, and I *still* want them.

@jmjedi923

7 ай бұрын

Same, they look so fucking cool

I do believe this idea was ahead of its time. This definitely has an air of ghetto chic about it. Every rapper would have glowing tires on his ride nowadays.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

I can see glowing tires being big in the lowrider crowd.

@Svensk7119

Жыл бұрын

White-walls move over!

@steve1085

Жыл бұрын

Macklemore would have a pretty dope song about it

@Chris_da_fro

Жыл бұрын

It's already easy to pick out the douchebags in traffic do they really need glowing tires too? Imagine every Honda civic is now glow in the dark

@realblakrawb

Жыл бұрын

Blegs would eat it up

Goodyear had another project for making regular vulcanized tires with different coloring agents They didn't sell well, except to gangs who would use them to make colored skid-marks to claim their territory. Another project replacing the carbon black in the tire with quartz particles for more wear resistance, silica is piezoelectric and the tires tended to shoot lightning bolts.

@NBSV1

Жыл бұрын

They’ve got tires now that produce colored smoke when doing a burnout. I think there’s stuff they can soak them in for the effect as well.

@KA-su9ww

Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing red tires when I was A kid in the 70s

@goawayihavecommentstomake1488

Жыл бұрын

I’m not seeing a downside!

@tiki_trash

Жыл бұрын

I used to see colored bicycle tires once in a while in the 90s.

@A15degreeperhourdrift

Жыл бұрын

Did they make brown ones?

As a dedicated high school gear head in the early 1960s I remember these well. They were featured in a Hotrod magazine story, but as a feature for car shows not street cars.

Being a petrol head and a motoring enthusiast, I'm quite shocked I've never heard of these before. Amazing video!

@lyfandeth

Жыл бұрын

You and me both, and I saw a hell of a lot of tires in the 60's.

@Michka1001

Жыл бұрын

@@lyfandeth part of me hopes they make a comeback, just perfected for road use 😅

@ajspice

Жыл бұрын

I live right outside of Akron and I've never heard of them...

@rijjhb9467

Жыл бұрын

Being a petrol head myself I'm quite tired of the usual negative stereotypes about cars. -1 they're status symbols and -2 they have something to do with the male anatomy. No one ever talks about the main reason people like cars: driving can be better than sex (I guess this is related to the "male anatomy" but not in the way they think).

@ajspice

Жыл бұрын

@@rijjhb9467 I think people like cars because our public transportation sucks and people have to get to work. What planet are you living on?

I saw the golden sahara up close in a body shop outside Chicago when it was being restored before going to a private museum in Chicago in 2019. It was massive, astounding, and gorgeous. The thousands of radio knobs did look funny.

@BBulletin

Жыл бұрын

Thanks to the video's comment on a "Golden Sahara III", I find myself wanting to know what it would look like. Someone get Jay Leno on this project!

@clbcl5

Жыл бұрын

@@BBulletin Watch the Jerry Lewis movie, Cinderfella. He drove it in the movie.

@clbcl5

Жыл бұрын

@@BBulletin Here is a cousin to that car it was based on. With Jay Lenos side kick.kzread.info/dash/bejne/pJOC28xsm7zecaw.html

@richardprice5978

Жыл бұрын

@@BBulletin well the picture of G-S-ll is wrong it's fishy pearlescent white with old-school lacker paint's so i produces a very unique experience/colour ( not simi glossy flat/non-trickery grey 🤮 someone missed up ) that modern paint's and technology can't replicate or at least that i know of, some other cars of the per-1970's are like that as well but done in other choices than whites or blacks pigments

@xmo552

Жыл бұрын

That's my number one top favorite kustom ever

In the 1950’s my Dad said wide white wall tires were the cat’s meow! He said that if you couldn’t afford the real thing, you could just buy wide whitewall inserts that just went over black wall tires. Until the end of his life, 2004, he couldn’t understand that people would have perfectly good whitewalls reversed to the black side. Not to mention that the formerly tire-wide whitewall had been reduced to a 1” white stripe that 99% of the population didn’t want anyway. How tastes change over the course of just a few decades. I miss you, Dad.

@Wreckz_Tea

Жыл бұрын

I miss mine too brother. Leave it to dad's to have unique tastes that nobody else understands. It's little things like that that make random things like this video bring a smile to your face while simultaneously bumming you out at the same time

@robertruark8797

Жыл бұрын

Yes my dad always had white wall tires on his vehicle.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

I've actually seen those whitewall inserts somewhere. They were white discs of rubber. Kind of off white by the time I came across them. I was never a fan of whitewalls myself. For me tires need to be black, round and roll.

@DanteTheAbyssalBeing

Жыл бұрын

Just so happens I've got whitewalls on my '72 Beetle at the moment. I love the look, but I have been told I'm an old man trapped in a young man's body.

@OllamhDrab

Жыл бұрын

Though the fake whitewall discs would pretty quickly get wrecked, and they're very unsuitable for radials.

This is maybe the most 1960s invention Simon has ever covered outside of ludicrous Cold War weaponry

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

Stupid car stuff was more of a 50s thing. Although some of it clung on into the 60s.

@JRockySchmidt

Жыл бұрын

It's still a cool idea, poor execution, but very cool. I think we could bring these back and actually make them worth it. We still have white walls why not pink walls or orange walls?

@penskepc2374

Жыл бұрын

A lot of US weaponry was built specifically to make the Soviet Union spend money they didn't have on a solution.

@richardprice5978

Жыл бұрын

@@JRockySchmidt i still feel safety with colourful light/blinking up rims and tire's can greatly improve safety but yes i can see some rubber-neckers/someone modifying to take it to far and be a road hazard and distraction. still waiting for the Q-tires to be sold as i like the general idea of inflatable ICE-spikes/winter tires for summertime and or fall whenever it can't make up it's mind if it's winter ❄ or fair-weather season

@moisesaguirre515

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely ludicrous weapons. Like why the fuck would you even build a backpack nuke type weapons

This is a great video. I had a friend who, in the late 60s built a battery operated car. He took an old Lincoln, I forget which model, and loaded it with 12 volt car batteries, an electric motor, electric windows and door locks, the works. It worked fine until he went to the store one day and forgot to shut off the main power switch. When he came out nothing worked. He had to have it towed home. He was already on probation for melting a garbage can with a heat ray that blew so many transformers that half of Baltimore was blacked out for a day. After the car fiasco and graduation from high school he moved out west somewhere. I wonder whatever became of him, or his car. He was NOT Elon Musk.

@indowneastmaine

Жыл бұрын

Madman Marcum??

@johndavis6119

Жыл бұрын

@@indowneastmaine Nope, just a local boy from Baltimore

@pfrstreetgang7511

Жыл бұрын

You must have a shitload of good stories. Characters like that always have a litany of crazy adventures and usually have at least 2 cohorts.

@stephen3164

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha - thanks for clarifying! I’m reminded of a guy that designed an electric car that had the battery packs all mounted on a trailer that the car pulled. Can’t recall his name at the moment.

@poindextertunes

Жыл бұрын

sounds safe

The moment you mentioned the tires were formed at 250 (guessing F, since it is the 1960s US) there was no way they would ever survive road conditions. Asphalt streets can reach 150F, combined with friction, deformation heating, brake and engine heat, even if they don't 'melt' they would definitely get hot enough that I would expect them to be way too soft to actually perform well.

@HermanVonPetri

Жыл бұрын

There's no way the material engineers at Goodyear didn't know that the chemistry of those tires was _entirely_ unsuitable for road use. That design should have never left the proposal stage before being dismissed.

@964cuplove

Жыл бұрын

Well,according To Wikipedia the rubber vulcanisation temp is at 120 bis 160 °C - so with 120 C being 250 F I don’t see the temp reduction Simon claims… And btw the vulcanisation temp is not really limiting the use of normal tires which are ideally not operated above 70-80° C

@2lefThumbs

Жыл бұрын

Well spotted- I'm fairly sure that neothane is a thermoplastjc polyurethane, rather than a "traditional" vulcanised rubber

@michaelf.2449

Жыл бұрын

@@964cuplove tires? Operating above 70 degrees Celsius isn't even odd that's a normal temp. I think the warmest time I've ever seen is 300 degrees f.

@fortunax22

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they pretty much said this in the video..

I love how the script spends the first four minutes treating the subject of people wanting colored, glowing, and custom 'for my mood/outfit' tires as ludicrous. Yet we live in a world with glowing LEDs that make a variety of our products act in the same way, and we can even change the colors on the fly according to our mood. And of course cars with glowing LED lights under them have been a thing for years. This is even highlighted at the end of the episode.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

Changing tires is a chore. I can't see people doing it just because. Then when Simon said what they weighed I was like oof.

@zachniedfeldt

Жыл бұрын

He has one in his own background. Lol even better

@ziero1986

Жыл бұрын

@@1pcfred A modern attempt at these illuminated tires wouldn't need changing though. The lights could just be RGB LEDs, addressable in any way you want. Personally, I wouldn't want the whole tire to glow, but instead a thin line perhaps. Similar to Red Line tires, but with lights, obviously.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

@@ziero1986 I could see lighted tires being useful as a safety illumination. You even may be able to discern wheels being turned?

@Capydachi

Жыл бұрын

Love how as they were waxing on about sexism I'm watching this with my wife who says "wait, I could have had tires that match my handbags" lol

If you really want to make light up tires. Paint you tires in a UV reactive paint and shine a UV(blacklight) light source on to them. You can even get UV paints/inks that are invisible in normal light but glow under UV. I see a lot of people do this in the Christmas parade every year and the effect looks really cool. KIM: the way this is done in the Christmas parade involves mounting a UV led on the end of a rod that protrudes out of the wheel well by about 18 inches(50cm). Although this works fine in a parade. This will not work for a car driving down the road at high speed and around traffic.

@quackman7027

Жыл бұрын

Depending on your fitment you could probably have uv lights on the inside of your fenders lighting up the tyres

@AttilaAsztalos

Жыл бұрын

Oh come on now... one can't even have an original idea without seeing it already proposed by someone else?!? Yeah, that's how I'd do it too... ;)

I was expecting that the “danger” would end up being some radionuclide embedded in the tyres to energise the glow. In many ways what they actually devised was far more hazardous.

WHY am I just learning about the Golden Sahara 2 ???? I don’t live under a rock and I’ve loved cars my entire life. Single yoke steering in 1965 is absolutely astounding!! Here we are 2022 and Tesla is just starting to bring back yoke steering

@xmo552

Жыл бұрын

It's my favorite Kustom car by Barris. There was a 1st version, the 2nd, .......and a modern Voodoo Sahara made by a newer joker.

fascinating, I originally thought the tyres were made to glow by mixing in a radioactive substance and zinc sulfide.

@theLuigiFan0007Productions

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't put it past anyone to consider doing that at the time.... I mean... licking paintbrushes covered in radium was considered acceptable to some employers...

@gregh7457

Жыл бұрын

@@theLuigiFan0007Productions don't give the tide pod challenge generation any ideas

Back in 2020 at the Chicago Auto Show, there was a car there with this kind of tires, and there was modern RGB LED's illuminating the tires

@clearcreek69

Жыл бұрын

I could see a pair of these tires in a man cave. I don't own a vehicle at the moment but when I did, I was happy with the tires available at the time & I do like seeing white walls on a classic car whenever possible.

@jwalster9412

Жыл бұрын

Are cars going to end up like gaming PCs where there just ugly little led boxes.

@TheHenirik

Жыл бұрын

@@jwalster9412 nah, they'll end up being concrete gray boxes, though possibly with rgb led on the inside. on the outside all light need to follow standard

@clearcreek69

Жыл бұрын

@@jwalster9412 I really hope not.

You got me with the statement "brightly colored death traps". Very good Simon.

@jimdennis2451

Жыл бұрын

It seems like Goodyear did minimal testing before marketing got ahold of this product. WTH?

@icedout2322

Жыл бұрын

@@jimdennis2451 hey it was the 60's Asbestos was in everything !

This video solved a weird childhood mystery for me! I always wondered if colored tires really existed because I swear I remember seeing them when I was a kid. But it was in the early 90's, though. I lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas at the time and there was this old car place in the area. I think it was a place where they sold and restored old cars. Looking it up online now, I think it could've been a place called Barret's in Lewisville. I could swear I remember seeing fluorescent colored tires hanging on the fence and on some cars. They were all different colors, like pink, blue, orange, and green. I also think I remember seeing something like a pink Cadillac with the tailfins, with matching pink tires. At the time, I was only about 5 or 6 years old, so I didn't know any better and I thought maybe cars from the 50's and 60's might have actually have had colored tires. I thought that place was so cool. But looking back now, I'm wondering if those tires even really existed, or if it's just a false memory. There have been studies done where researchers have shown that they can get people to have memories of things from their childhood, that didn't really happen. (That would make a great video topic, btw.) I was wondering if this video was going to say that colored tires were a real thing and now that I know they weren't, I realize the tires I saw years ago, had to have been painted. (If they were even real at all and not just a figment of my imagination, that is.)

@ColonelSandersLite

Жыл бұрын

Well, they where never mass produced and sold to the public. It's *possible* that after they ditched the idea, the prototype tires ended up in the hands of high end dealers instead of being physically scrapped. I don't think it's super likely that a *bunch* of them ended up in a specialty shop in Dallas, but it's also not completely impossible.

@chappell721

Жыл бұрын

colored tires are very much a thing. natural rubber is off white in appearance and can be changed to other colors with additives or other filler materials. most tires are black in appearance because of the addition of carbon black in the rubber formulation, which increases durability. bright white rubber used for sidewall decorations is achieved with zinc oxide. You're more likely to see them on bicycles but they can make tires in any color of the rainbow. clear tires are what you can't achieve with rubber. and unfortunately rubber is what has been identified as the best material for tires. there's a reason tire companies in non-tropical locations pay for the sap to be harvested from trees thousands of miles away and shipped to them rather than try to source a synthetic product locally.

@Melissa0774

Жыл бұрын

@@ColonelSandersLite I remember seeing them on a car outside and hanging on a fence, so I doubt they were the real deal.

@invader_guy1171

Жыл бұрын

I have a very vivid memory of seeing an orange tire for sale once at a shop where my dad was getting our car's tires changed in the early 2000s, after some googling it seems hankook produced a few promotional "eco friendly" tires that were orange in color at some point, but I'm not sure about the other colors. there's a chance the ones you saw were just normal tires that were spray painted at the shop just to look cool, but who knows really

@D8W2P4

Жыл бұрын

@@chappell721 Car tires haven't been made out of latex for a very long time dude. What they use is called Styrene-butadiene.

"A way to compensate for anatomical shortcomings" - love it!

This is an example of a company creating a product that met the needs of the company instead of the needs of the customers.

@tiki_trash

Жыл бұрын

It must have been designed to meet the needs of the CEO's wife.

@penskepc2374

Жыл бұрын

Not really, this is how trends are made.

Very nice video! Though you got it wrong, saying Jim Skonzakis built the Golden Sahara II. He actually bought GS I from George Barris, and did some revamping on it, such as having Illinois customizer, Bob Metz, add the double fins on the car. The part about it being radio controlled, starting, steering, accelerating, is entirely true. Amazing for the very early 60's. It was also featured on "To Tell the Truth", as well as the "Cinderfella" movie, if I remember.

Never knew about this in automobile tires. The general idea lives on in light up roller skate wheels where the demands on the "tire" are quite minimal compared to an auto.

The Golden Sahara II: I'm surprised no one has tried to manufacture & sell Kit versions of it! A beautiful rolling work of art!

@xmo552

Жыл бұрын

There's a modern Voodoo Sahara but it's kinda 💩y

Aw, now I want glowing tyres (Ones that won't kill me)

nice video and thanks for making it. I cant help but point out a mistake of mentioning 68KG tire weight and it showing 68 KM. Keep up the good work

I was hoping 'that time' was a recent one this time because these things did look cool. Then the reality of them you explained clicked and I got bummed. Enjoyed this episode though, Simon! Thanks!

@andiward7068

Жыл бұрын

They were in a B.Blaze vid of failed inventions (or bad ideas or similar) which is why I wasn't too disappointed. It was less informative but so much more entertaining. OGBB

@alphadawg81

Жыл бұрын

You can still buy tires which produce colored smoke when you do a burnout. ....they aren't street legal though.

@alphadawg81

Жыл бұрын

@@HadenBlake I'd assume so. I wouldn't trust them to carry me safely through a sharp turn.

Reminds me of those coloured smoking tires I saw on top gear many years ago

As soon as he said "at his home in Ohio" my heart dropped. People are big on duct tape and big "I'm gonna (fill in the blank) one day" stories here. Glad they fixed it. Up.

I actually love the idea. I miss the optimism of American companies lol

Its so interesting how cars become a part of a person's legacy, like the Shelby Cobra, Paul Walker's Skyline, James Dean's "Little Devil", etc. Theyre almost a means to live forever in memoriam.

@grassulo

Жыл бұрын

If I recall Mr. Dean actually called his Porsche "little bastard" but the press at the time was too polite to print what he actually called the tiny car.

How do you make videos faster than I can watch em…….. impressive, I love your work, across the board of all your channels. I really appreciate the work your team puts in, Thanks, keep up the good work I’m a superfan and keep rolling those channels out, we love them all.

@julmdamaslefttoe3559

Жыл бұрын

Its called...Wait for it... Editors/Writers! Wow I know magical lol

@HandleHandled

Жыл бұрын

@@julmdamaslefttoe3559 You fool! It's obviously ghosts, aliens and cryptids who are all using magic to help him pump out the videos!

@BrianPseivaD

Жыл бұрын

@@julmdamaslefttoe3559 I was just being nice, obviously you don’t get sarcasm.

@julmdamaslefttoe3559

Жыл бұрын

@@BrianPseivaD **literally uses sarcasm in initial comment**

I cant even stand rotating my tires every 10k miles. Absolutely no way i would change them more often to match my wife's attire.

When it comes to tyres.....Function NOT fashion is the key!

Fun Fact: Mobile telephones for cars were available in the U.S. since the late 1940s. There were limited frequencies, so they were rare and expensive, but they did exist for about a decade by the time the "Golden Sahara II" was built. I'm going to conclude that the phone in it was fake for cost reasons.

I believe that Firestone marketed a nylon tire in the sixties. They would flat spot when you parked overnight and were horrible in cold weather.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

Nylon is pretty slippery. Are you sure the Nylon wasn't just in the tire cordage?

@roberthodgins8856

Жыл бұрын

All I know is my dad said the tires were mostly nylon. He may have got them GM as a mileage test set as he drove all over southern Ontario, and did a lot of business with them.

@buckodonnghaile4309

Жыл бұрын

Perfect for life in the Canadian bush, I'll take 4 please.

@paulmanson253

Жыл бұрын

I remember them. It usually took more than a day for the flat spots,but cold weather made it unpleasant until they warmed up sufficiently. My father had a 1968 Olds 98,big heavy,ugly. The weight of the car made those flat spots memorable. Thumpa thumpa thumpa.

@andersjjensen

Жыл бұрын

@@1pcfred Nylon is a common additive in cheap tyres today. The nylon rich compounds make for a tire that has quite good grip on warm road, but practically no grip of frozen road, has good fuel economy but wears so fast it isn't cheaper when all is said and done. But young petrol heads apparently need to learn this for themselves, and that creates enough of a market to sustain the business.

I do believe this happened during Ralph Kramden's very brief tenure on the Good Year board of directors.

Back in the day if you were too cheap for whitewall tires you could get Porta-Walls. These were rubber rings that would install on the outer surface of the tire. They were held on by deflating the tire slightly, pushing the ring under the outer rim of the well and then reinflating the tire. Later on, one company, maybe even several, had the idea to make colored Porta-Walls. You could get them in multiple different colors, and they were safer! But the tire was still black around the outer perimeter.

6:16 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The tyres weighing 68 Kilometers?! That's bloody heavy! I know it's a typo but the thought of something weighing so much that it leaves its own catagory of measurement and uses another is hillarious. I find that funny just like how something can take so long to wait for that you have to start measuring it in distance (i.e. lightyears) 🤣

As a teenager I saw these at a tire dealer near Chicago when I looked at them there was a cord providing the power to the tires I thought it was just a gimmick but seeing them glow was cool.

We still got the colored smoke that smells like lilac when you do a burn out tires.

Today with LEDs I am surprised this has not been tried again

i had Grey tires on my Mountian bike once. grip was questionable at best. so did not do it again. and people do change the phone cases and hair and nails. so good ides just much too early. Molding it as a side wall no structural that would work

@rainbowtheythemshe1115

Жыл бұрын

I put a purple rear tire on my bicycle a few months ago, it is wearing out faster than the already seriously worn black one on the front wheel... But it looks kinda cool.

@giovanni6643

Жыл бұрын

@@rainbowtheythemshe1115 it's possible to light up the rim, can't imagine the cost of that would be worse than glowing tires in the long run.

Never heard of these before. Thanks for researching this for us

With modern advances I think this could make a comeback... if my tires glowed maybe i would actually leave the house

@shrimpflea

Жыл бұрын

Would be very expenisve.

@atomikcosmonaut522

Жыл бұрын

@@shrimpflea and pretty

'Who's got any ideas for new tyres!?' 'How about sexy, glowing tyres!?' 'FK YEAH! Best idea I've heard ALL YEAR! Simpletons gonna buy these good!'

Seeing all this footage of George Barris Golden Sahara II. A whole video on Barris would be amazing. His custom car career along eith countless tv/movies cars would.make for a great video!

1:15 - Chapter 1 - The dream 3:15 - Chapter 2 - The reality 7:10 - Chapter 3 - The golden sahara 10:40 - Chapter 4 - Wrap up

i remember reading about this in my dad's car magazines. i was about ten years old. nothing ever came of it

@jimdennis2451

Жыл бұрын

Speaking of 10 years old. In the mid-1970s, I was coming home from the beach with my best friend's family. His dad was in sales and had a CAR PHONE in his Caddy. I was able to call my mom during the drive to tell her: 1. I was coming home 2. I WAS TALKING TO HER FROM A MOVING CAR! Yeah, that golden futuristic car with a phone was pretty futuristic at the time.

Hello Simon, I lost you in the KZread algorithm for a long time. I'm so happy we found each other again. I'll never ignore 1(one) more of your videos so KZread never separate us again.

What a sad statement for Goodyear Tires. Goodyear, with this most notable exception has always been the leader and innovator in safe, durable tires for all manor of vehicles, a leader in quality control and research and development. For them to compromise those standards for just a marketing whim, in my mind is unthinkable and a breech of public trust. Thank you for this eye opener.

I worked for Goodyear for many years when I took my questions to the old-timers about these tires they told me they were specifically designed for show cars never to see the open road and they were basically clear tires with different colored lightbulbs inside obviously it didn’t takeoff in the show car industry and that was the end of it.

@user-sx4yu3nw4j

Жыл бұрын

“… designed for show cars never to see the open road…” Did you even watch the video? It’s endless evidence to the contrary. Those old-timers were lying to you to save face - they were embarrassed, and justifiably so.

Awesome! I was doing some research on this few months ago. Who better else to talk about it than Simon!

"a way to compensate for anatomical shortcomings". I laughed a little to hard at that!

In the late 70's one company made outstanding snow tires, and made them only in blue.

A grand subject Simon. I never knew Goodyear was that progressive. Thanks for the research. Stellar presentation Sir.

I still find old white tyres really elegant. They had that aspect mostly because that's the natural colour of rubber.

@jayplay8869

Жыл бұрын

All my rubbers are black

Something not mentioned is that the light-up tires were also programmed to flash along with the turn signals in Goodyear's prototype testbeds, which went alongside Goodyear's attempts to eke out what little benefit they could out of said tires. Another thing not mentioned was that although the US knew these were becoming failures, they hyped it up to their Soviet rivals, making the Soviets a bit jealous that America could afford to let citizens customize their cars to such a degree. That being said, today these wouldn't be anything surprising on cars. It'd just be people trying to emulate the TRON glow effect or as part of a "pimped out" ride. In fact, there's a stupidly-lifted truck in my area with LED rims and a LED disc behind each brake that gives almost a TRON-like effect, spoiled only by the ghetto lift and excess chrome underneath reflecting it everywhere.

Those 64KM tires gotta be pretty big too :o These freedom unit conversions get crazier and crazier all the time :D /s

The idea of having several sets in order to match the wife's colours is a hilarious though, utterly impractical and frankly a terrible thought today, but still hilarious... :P

@shannon9993

Жыл бұрын

It's exactly the kind of thing I can see a marketing person with no interest in actual human needs to try to convince people they need to part with money for.

@jordanclark4635

Жыл бұрын

I mean I’d love this if only cause car geek “Oh no you’re wearing your red dress tonight honey? Oh no, I insist” lol

@coronalight77

Жыл бұрын

Lol thanks captain obvious we saw the vid and understood the point.

@jordanclark4635

Жыл бұрын

@@coronalight77 who pissed in your cornflakes?

I bet if they did it now I bet it would be super popular.

@tiki_trash

Жыл бұрын

At Burning Man?

In the 70s I worked at Mohawk Rubber (just behind Goodyear) and I heard of them but didn't understand the application because we also made various colored rubber for Patch Rubber Co. I now understand the difference between the two very different compounds and their uses. PS I was one of the industrial electricians there for 4.5yrs before they shut down on Nov. 22, 1978.

We now have door handle lights, rotor/drum lights, wheel well lights, door projector lights, heartshaped led taillights(not the old beetle ones) and tires that can make a colorful burnout.

Hmmm 😀 So Tron style features IS a thing after all! Not entirely the work of Hollywood or science fiction 😍 If I actually saw a vehicle with them, I'd be mesmorised!

@SupersuMC

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the long-exposure photograph of the factory tests looked straight out of a Tron film. Kind of wish that these were more of a thing. :-)

@eaphantom9214

Жыл бұрын

@@SupersuMC look up the super car Lamborghini Terzio Millenio You won't be dissapointed 👏👏😁

Nowadays we have LEDs to put on tire valves to create colorful rings. So I guess their marketing was on point. People do want this.

@sourpuss1612

Жыл бұрын

Because it is true. There is always some one dumb enough to buy what ever is on the market. This is what the sales on TV rely on.

Thanks for mentioning Golden Sahara, it's still influencing custom car builds today.

Those new airless tires that Michelin is developing are going to have a lot of place for LEDs...

There have been glowing tires before, but only when they are on fire...

How much corporate time and energy did that project consume? (And what did the responsible executives consume to make them think it was a good idea in the first place?) If nothing else, the weight should have killed the concept. Unsprung weight (wheels, tyres and suspension components) causes forces that have to be overcome, and keeping it down is a key to achieving decent ride and handling qualities.

@mrdanforth3744

Жыл бұрын

Companies experiment with new ideas all the time. Most of them get noplace but once in a while someone comes up with a cell phone or some new world shaking invention. Every new invention was once a screwy idea in the head of some engineer.

@suzi_mai

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the wonderful handling quality of a solid tyre.

RGB lights in the rims is a thing I see a lot. Having the tires glow as well would be awesome.

He's wrong about that last part. You can still find glow in the dark car tires today.

Somebody tried to make similar tires molded out of a single piece of material, without any reinforcing steel belts. Turns out they would get hot and then grow to an enormous size due to the centrifugal forces. Not good.

Actual glowing tyres are probably a non-starter, but surely coloured tyres would be possible?

@NBSV1

Жыл бұрын

White tires were somewhat common back in the day. The natural color of rubber is almost white already. But, they get dirty and look bad pretty quick. So, they make them black.

@shrimpflea

Жыл бұрын

@@NBSV1 The black color is caused by a carbon chemical that makes them stronger and more durable.

@xmo552

Жыл бұрын

We had colored tires in the 2000s

Wife: Change the tires dear, I'm wearing my blue dress tonight. Husband: The bulbs have all blown. Wife: Well then change them. Husband: I can't. We spent all our money on a rainbow of tires.

I got to see the restored car at said Geneva Motorshow! While impractical, it was still a very cool sight to behold!

This would probably fly off the shelves today. Put colour changing LEDs in there,go to Tiktok, profit.

@jwenting

Жыл бұрын

luckily in a lot of places adding lights to your car that weren't there when the model was certified for road use is illegal, preventing that from happening in even slightly sane places.

6:17 - Simon, did you not realize that KM means kilometers not kilograms? It should say “68 kg” not “68 km”. This is weight, not distance.

@JackDesert

Жыл бұрын

no no... the tires would be very much lighter after that distance...losing rubber so to speak

Love your videos, Simon. Keep up the fantastic work!

when i saw the title "glowing tires" i instantly thought it was going to be like the old luminous clock faces but with radium paint/powder added to the tire

This would actually look good on certain cars in my opinion

There was some cool car stuff back then that definitely made sense, but lets face it a mass majority seems to be nonsense 😂

@mrdanforth3744

Жыл бұрын

That is always the way.Engineers continually come up with new ideas, most of them turn out to have some fatal flaw but once in a while they come up with something good. There is no way to know for sure unless you try out a lot of different things.

Mans has to have the record for most KZread channels. Have to start calling him Simon Hustler great content btw

That yoke driving stick is BALLER as shit. It also controls the brakes and gas. I want one right now, not for the 90+% of people that already cannot drive of course, but I need it.

If you've ever seen a modern lifted compensator pickup, you are thinking they weren't that far off

@infernotyphoon

Жыл бұрын

Also compensating for something by saying their compensating? Or is that not how this works?

They weighed 64km? And how much kg could they last?

@tubensalat1453

Жыл бұрын

Was going to comment on that, too. Those Imperials...

I live in Akron and my granddad worked as an exec GTR HQ. I've been through every plant every tunnel that you can imagine. And I actually know where some of those tires are right now.

Jim actually predicted so much of what happened to the cars in the last 10 years.

They need to reintroduce that today. Due to the bad taste and whims of the Instagram generation I think they would sell like gangbusters now.

@DrakonErythros

Жыл бұрын

Boomer detected. Who was it that raised the ‘Instagram generation’? Ah, that’s right. Your generation. Good job, Patrick!

@patrickspringer6534

Жыл бұрын

@@DrakonErythros Nope, I'm only in my 40's. Gen X.

@dying101666

Жыл бұрын

@@DrakonErythros and what are you?

@patrickspringer6534

Жыл бұрын

@@dying101666 Keyboard warrior.

Great video, but you got one thing wrong. We might actually see something like this again once airless tires take off. Because these tires already have holes in them integral to their design, there should be a relatively easy way to make them glow

Thank you for all the great videos

Now here in the states you see color lights in the rims . Super distracting at night on the highways . Love the content .

Wait, if you had transparent tires you could just use colored LED to change their colors. Why hasn't anyone brought back the clear tires? We could work it out, we have better material science now and the more electric cars there are the cleaner the road will be. It'd only be for wankers but it makes more sense than the stupid hydraulics some people have.

@TheGrinningViking

Жыл бұрын

Ok I said that but I want some. Haha.

The conversion factor at 6:19 of 150 pounds to 68 kilometers really does show that the imperial measurement system really does need to go. No-one with knowledge of the metric system should make such a stupid mistake. :(

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

You need to go. The USA never used any Imperial measuring system. In fact US Customary predates the Imperial system of weights and measures! They used a system called Windsor when US Customary was created.

@Alan_Hans__

Жыл бұрын

As Simon is from UK where the Imperial system is in use and is from and it's the basis of the US customary system it's actually fairly logical to ditch the imperial system. As far as the other system there is only 1 country on earth that uses that Hodge podge of a system so it's about time it was retired as well.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

@@Alan_Hans__ units of measure other than metric are in wider use than you realize. No one is interested in meters when it comes to altitude measurements. It is too cumbersome to use. So the standard is to use feet. It is a unit that just fits the task best. Precious metals are measured in the troy ounce. Gems by the carat. A ship's speed is measured in knots.

@chemieju6305

Жыл бұрын

@@1pcfred you can allways find a measurement unit that is better for one specific purpose than one that is made to fit all. But then you end up with a bunch of measurements that just dont work together at all.

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

@@chemieju6305 everything does work together. It all may not suit you though. There is nothing that is going to convince me to use metric either because it does not suit me. I get the job done using US Customary measurements too.

Awesome bit of history I never knew of. Thought only glowing tires could be found at Neutral Drop.

What I appreciate is the cool retro mid century styling.