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Club News => CMC & Industry News => Topic started by: ozpont on March 13, 2012, 07:56:48 PM

Title: Detroits Huge Uniroyal Tire....
Post by: ozpont on March 13, 2012, 07:56:48 PM

.....an interesting story behind the huge tire that is more then just an advert...   visitors to Detroit will remember this .... seen on the approach to Detroit from the cities airport....  did you know it was once a Ferris wheel....???

(http://camaro-firebird.org/forum/files/uniroyaltire_944.jpg)

http://www.freep.com/videonetwork/1498190705001?odyssey=mod|tvideo|local news (http://www.freep.com/videonetwork/1498190705001?odyssey=mod|tvideo|local news)

Title: Detroits Huge Uniroyal Tire....
Post by: Gene on March 13, 2012, 09:41:08 PM

saw that on 'Pickers' show the other night - they had a battery operated model of this....also watched a show on the building of a Challenger - the motor is made in Mexico and the assembly plant is in Toronto, Canada.....wonder what made them move from the USA..........