PIRELLI 185 VR 15

185VR15 PIRELLI CINTURATO ™ CA67 Tires

Some of the cars that are currently most valuable in the world originally fitted PIRELLI’s 185VR15 CINTURATO ™ CA67 tires. Ferrari were fitting 185VR15 CINTURATO ™ tires to their 250 cars from around 1960. It was well known that PIRELLI’s CINTURATO ™ tires were the sports car radial tire of choice and the top sports car manufacturers, that fitted radial tires, would use PIRELLI’s CINTURATO ™ tires. So cars like the 250 GT California Spider, 250 GT Lusso would be leaving the factory fitted with 185VR15 CA67 CINTURATO ™ tires.

185 R 15 Tires

Many sports cars of the 60’s still stuck with cross ply tires as there standard fitment, (maybe because of cost). However when buying your Aston Martin; Late DB4, DB5 or Series 1 DB6, if you specified to Aston Martin that you were prepared to spend the extra money to fit radial tires, Aston Martin would have fitted your car with PIRELLI’s 185VR15 CINTURATO ™ CA67 tires. If instead you had decided you wanted to buy a MK2 or E-Type Jaguar (XKE) and you wanted radial tires, Jaguars best option was the 185VR15 PIRELLI CINTURATO ™ tires.

Later at the end of the 60’s low profile tires were developed. The low profile equivalent to a 185VR15 tire is a 205/70VR15. If you have a car that was developed to fit 185VR15 tires and it is now fitted with wider, lower profile tires you may well find, the steering heavy and vague and the handling of the car is less progressive, the answer is probably to revert back to a 185VR15 PIRELLI CA67 CINTURATO ™ tire.