DeTomaso Mailing List: February 1997, Message #124
     



From: Kirk Bailey <kbailey@acs.ryerson.ca>

Subject: Re: P7R soon available again

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:32:58 -0800 (PST)



On Wed, 19 Feb 1997 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Carlsson_=3Cbjorn.carlsson=40sapa.se=3E?=@sapa.se wrote:



> I've got confirmation from Pirelli that P7R 275/55 ZR 15 will be available

> in march/april. Yepp, they are now ZR-rated.

> Estimated retail price around $330 in Europe.

> A friend of a friend saw an ad in a German magazine that also 285/50-15 will

> be produced again but I have not checked that with Pirelli.

>

>

> The Swedish De Tomaso Club

> Bjorn Carlsson

> bjorn.carlsson@sapa.se

>

>

The reissue of P7R's is of great interest. I bought a pair of 285-50-15

P7R from Tire Rack in South Bend Indiana about 3 or 4 years ago.



I called back last year to buy the fronts, the 225-50-15's and Tire Rack

said they were discontinued and no longer available.



Shane Ingate solved my problem as he had a pair of 225-50-15 P7's.



My questions are:

1) If these P7 Pirellis are reissued by the Pirelli factory, will they

include the 225-50-15 size??



2) I now have P7R's the 285-50-15's on the back of my 71 Pantera (#1907)



and the 225-50-15 P7's Shane sold me.



It is clear that the Pirelli lettering is much much larger on the P7R's

than on the regular P7's. Other than the lettering size are there any

other differences between P7's and P7R's????



Please advise



Thanks



Kirk Bailey Red 71 #1907,  Toronto, Ontario Canada



P.S. Bjorn:  Please have Sweden send us more hockey players like Mats

Sundin or Borje Salming!!!