On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:22:03 -0400, "Cathy F."
<clfr@adelphiadotdeedot.net> wrote:

>
>"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddollnofeckingspam1958@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:gcnjsm.20s.1@news.evilcabal.org...
>>I finally saw my son's Nissan he just bought - it's white, and the damned
>>tires have *black* covers. Looks like it has 4 "baby" tires on it. He
>>says that's all the rage!
>>
>> Why would you want wheels that look like they should only be used in an
>> emergency?
>>
>> Damn, that's ugly. Worse than the Conestoga wagon wheels they loved in
>> the past.
>>
>> Natalie
>
>Tangential to this... One day, several years ago, it all-of-a-sudden dawned
>on me that I hadn't seen whitewall tires for ages. They faded out of
>existence without me actually noticing, until years later. ;-)
>
>Cathy
>
>
>

You can still see them...but not too many.

One of my observations on my first trip to Taiwan was that there were
NO whitewall tires on any car....

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Scott in Florida