Weird private-label tire names

paulo57509 said:
White lettered "Big Boss" of the late '70's comes to mind. I've always wondered who made the original **** Cepek tires.

The Highlander has Milestar MS932's; distributed by Tireco?
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Cepek was independent until 2000-initially, Armstrong made the tires, then M/T bought the company. (Since bought by Cooper.)
 
*TRAILQUEST* 15 inch trailer tires on my new 18 foot pipe top. I put about 500 miles on them before swapping with the Carlisle Radial HDs from my 12 foot trailer. The Carlisle were D rated as well. I'll keep the TRAILQUESTs for now as they performed aside from my OCD.

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Found in Barcelona Spain in a gipsy camp parking area, lots of cars fitted with cheap chinese brands tyres. Sorry for the quality pics, but you can find: SMILING ON THE ROAD, VIGOROUS, and SMART CHASER.

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eljefino said:
Goodyear Viva cracks me up, who'd name a tire after a paper towel?

My Neon came with Doral tires (apparently private label Sumitomo), and all I could think of was cigarettes.

Tire store I worked at 3 years ago sold "Sumic" which is just a letter away from "Poison Sumac", something I'm not itching to try. Now they sell Hi-Flys as their cheap tire.

What cracks me up the most is when some off brand makes bold font white letter tires... for that 80s Buick Regal or pre-93 Dodge truck. Free Bird!
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I ran a set of Sumic tires for 100 thousand miles on my '93 SL2
 
Jarlaxle said:
Everyone here has seen them...strangely-named tires sold online or as tire-store cheapies. So...what have you seen? I saw three today...

On a Jeep Wrangler YJ: Atlas Tire Desperado
On a Grand Prix GTP: Eldorado Golden Fury GFT
On an E450 box truck: Unicorn Creation
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Funny thing is that brands with odd names that sound legit to us, are mysterious to normies. "Yokohama"? "Kumho"? "Veredestein"? "Nokian"? are all just gibberish to them. You know how all tires kind of sound alike....
 
It was 1967, my mother just took delivery of a New Pontiac Catalina Coupe, we were on I91 on our way to New Haven at about 65mph, hit a high expansion joint, both front tires blew off the rims, actually disintegrated. They were brand new factory-installed Uniroyal Laredo 4-ply nylon. Dealer replaced all 4 tires and the damaged front rims, I think the replacements were Goodyears. Haven't trusted anything marked Uniroyal since, don't know who owns the brand now. Firmly believe good tires are your cheapest form of life insurance. Pretty much stick with Continental or Michelins now.
 
Speedy3861 said:
It was 1967, my mother just took delivery of a New Pontiac Catalina Coupe, we were on I91 on our way to New Haven at about 65mph, hit a high expansion joint, both front tires blew off the rims, actually disintegrated. They were brand new factory-installed Uniroyal Laredo 4-ply nylon. Dealer replaced all 4 tires and the damaged front rims, I think the replacements were Goodyears. Haven't trusted anything marked Uniroyal since, don't know who owns the brand now. Firmly believe good tires are your cheapest form of life insurance. Pretty much stick with Continental or Michelins now.
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Uniroyal is a Michelin subsidiary.

I feel that every brand makes good and bad models. I mean- every brand THAT WE KNOW. On the EBay search engine, there' about 15 brands I click on. It's easy for me, but some people dont' know which brands are even "real"

Long ago on Euro cars, only a few brans were considered acceptable....for trades or for dealers to install for customers. I'll take a shot: Michelin, Continental, Dunlop, Pirelli, Goodyear, Bridgestone and iirc Yokohama.
 
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