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Re: BFGoodrich Radial Tirebird
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2020, 02:27:21 PM »
Found some interesting professionally produced footage of the BFG Tirebird in the WSLS-TV (Roanoke, VA) News Film Collection.  According to the website it was released and used in a news broadcast on January 13, 1971.  See it here: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2214884

Info on the cars can be seen here: https://bfgtirebird.com/t%2Fg-racing-program
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Re: BFGoodrich Radial Tirebird
« Reply #31 on: January 04, 2020, 07:06:54 AM »
That is absolutely fantastic footage!!! and the video is of really good quality, very cool. Thank you very much.
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Re: BFGoodrich Radial Tirebird
« Reply #32 on: January 04, 2020, 03:46:55 PM »
Viewing the video and reading the info link causes me to wonder just how much BFG's marketing/racing program contributed to the immense popularity of the BFG TA radial tires on our street muscle cars over the years from the 70's thru to today?   I've always thought they were the BEST radial tire for a muscle car, but part of my opinion stems from the 'appearance'.. the smaller white letters and the TA notation...

What do you fellas think?
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Re: BFGoodrich Radial Tirebird
« Reply #33 on: January 04, 2020, 05:44:34 PM »
Viewing the video and reading the info link causes me to wonder just how much BFG's marketing/racing program contributed to the immense popularity of the BFG TA radial tires on our street muscle cars over the years from the 70's thru to today?   I've always thought they were the BEST radial tire for a muscle car, but part of my opinion stems from the 'appearance'.. the smaller white letters and the TA notation...

What do you fellas think?

I'm only 43 years old and consequently too young to have seen the original Trans Am series first hand or any of the marketing that went along with it but when I got my 1971 Camaro Z28 RS back in the mid 1990's I immediately put these kind of tires on it.  I always liked the look of the white raised letters and the performance they give.  While I was well versed in the history of the Trans Am at the time, back then I never put 2 and 2 together to realize that the "T/A" in BFG T/A tires stood for Trans Am and hearkened back to this promotional/race program.  By the 1980's/1990's when I would have been exposed to the ads for these tires in magazines and on the television the brand/type had been well established and they probably had no reason to promote the fact that they were the first street radial to participate in racing. 
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