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Modern Tyres for Classic Cars

Most average motorists are happy with any tyre that isn’t visibly failing or bald. But those into modifying their cars, and those with a little pride in the appearance of their vehicle will be more aware of how tyres and alloys can vastly improve their appearance. Along with recent tyre-related car accidents in the news, owners of vintage cars are becoming more aware that new tyres can not only add safety and practicality to their classic car, but often add to their style.

At Top Gear we stock a wide range of Alloy Wheels for all makes and models of cars, we fit them and provide everything you need to maintain them - here are a few guidelines covering why you might want Alloy Wheels, how to care for them, some basic terms explained and our services outlined.

Benefits

There are numerous benefits to fitting alloy wheels to your car. For a start they are cast from aluminium with means they are light-weight, and more attractive than regular wheels. They are great at dissipating brake heat and small amounts of more rigid metals the presence of which helps prevent cracks propagating. They are also available in standardised sizes, to fit almost every car, and therefore available at very competitive prices here at Top Gear.

The following is an article from The Sunday Times March 27, 2005 and has been slightly edited to make it more relevant to Topgear.

Britain’s biggest tyre-fitting chain is amongst the most expensive places to buy some popular tyres, despite it’s advertising. A survey conducted by The Sunday Times found that Kwik-Fit, which has always used the slogan “Always cheaper. Guaranteed”, charged up to 120% more for certain types of tyre than outlets in the same area.

Renault’s Fernando Alonso provided Renault with their second win of the 2005 Grand Prix season this weekend. Leading most of the race he never really looked threatened by Toyota’s Jarno Trulli who ended up finishing 24 seconds behind. Third was BMW Williams Nick Heidfeld who drove a storming race from 10th on the grid, showing that the Williams seem to be getting on top of the problems that they had in Australia.

A notable absence to the front runners were the Ferraris with Michael Schumacher finishing in 7th position and Rubens Barichello dropping out due to a piece of rubber in his rear wing making his car virtually undrivable.

The Malaysian Grand Prix weekend is here and British GP star Jenson Button has returned to form in his BAR Honda. Posting times inside the top 10 in both Friday practice sessions, Button said that he thought it was a good start to the weekend.

Williams driver Mark Webber started the weekend in a less satisfactory way loosing the whole day to a gear shift problem and had to sit out the whole day in air conditioned comfort while the rest of the drivers pounded roudn the track in the blistering heat.

We are currently adding Mongoose Stainless Steel exhausts to our website so they are available to buy online. With full Stainless systems for a variety of vehicles they are well worth a look. To see the full range Click here

Topgear are very sorry to hear that Emap have announced the imminent closure of Revs magazine. This is a great shame as we currently have a 10 page advert in this magazine which took a considerable amount of time and effort to get looking right.

We will of course look at other publications to put our message in and keep you informed.