Not supposed to be lined up. The wheels were marked at the heavy spot, and so were the tires. the marks were installed opposite of each other to save on lead balance weights. GM was all about saving money not doing "show " mounts on the tires.
Here's something interesting! By December 1970, the car had almost 18k miles on it. Almost exactly 7 months of use.
Just looked on Wikipedia and ID'ed the Texas plate. A star in between the letter and numbers, no painted year on top, black letters, says it's a 1975 plate. So there you go, #508 is 5 years old an living in Texas!
Wonder how long he had it before he found the parking curb that was the death of many of those front spoilers. JW
This thread is amazing! So glad you made that initial phone call I'm not to sure what this means? The "wingfoot" is a lead weight?
At the mcacn show, the valve stem has to be lined up with the little wingfoot emblem on the polylas tire that's in between the the good year lettering. I believe there is a points deduction if it's not. What I find amusing is when I was working at a Goodyear tire store in the early 90s, I would always line up the valve stem with the wing foot on the tire. The guys in the shop would always know who mounted the tires...."yep, Cook mounted those"
LoL! Wonder if the OCD started at that Goodyear shop?? Once you have Car OCD you will always have it Don't ever lose it For a minute though I did think of the Winged foot believe me.. Learned something good!
So if the wheel does not easily balance when lining up the wingfoot and valve, then MCACN would want you to have shitload of weights on your wheel, just to make sure the valve and emblem line up.
