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Originally Posted by mrmustang
Avons=overkill for the street, if you are not planning on racing, a simple Cooper Cobra will do just fine. In addition, driving under 50 degrees is not recommended. This directly from friends who deal directly with SASSCO the distributor.
Avons for the track, 100% recommend them.
Just saying.
Bill S.
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And the exact same applies to original style Billboards...
By the way, there are plenty of tire/car combinations that don't recommend operation under 50*. The Ford GT and GT500s are among them even stating so in the operators manual.
But the point of this is that some of these barely-street-legal tires are just barely street usable.
My observation is that the acceptability is directly proportional to the size of the rocks you're willing to have the tires throw against your rocker panels and rear fender skirts.
Nebraska, like Colorado, is well known for the use of sand/gravel (or "Grit" as the guys on Top Gear called it). I didn't drive my Cobra any appreciable distance until after the first few spring rains.