Some years back, I partnered up with Bobby Ore, the stunt driver, and we leased a big portion of an old airforse base 10 miles from Ardmore Ok. we set in a business there teaching counter terrorism driving tactic's to police agencies, we bought 7 old police cars for the training, Bobby giving demonstrations daily destroying several sets of tires a day. Because of Bobby's background, we were able to get several tire companies to donate us tires to run and document their performance, Uniroyal plant there in Ardmore was our first, then General, Michilin, Dayton and Good Year let us have some of their Eagle tires to try, I learned alot about the difference in composition of the tires, some would hold up good to that kind of driving but didn't have the traction performance, and the one's that had traction performance wore out really fast, the Eagle GT's wore out faster than any of the rest I think, but traction was not important for the kind of driving we did, especially for demonstrations.
One day I bought a Ford LTD that had a new set of Bridgestone tires on it, narrow, common street tires, believe it or not, those Bridgestone's ran longer that any other tires we tested before the steel belts began showing, just common street tires, they didn't have a lot of slip traction, but the composition was really tough. What a surprize I got to find out the price of those tires today, like $177 each .. how time changes, they were one of the cheapest tires you could back then, mid 80's
