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Old 04-07-2020, 03:31 PM
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Default Something interesting - Who makes Mickey Thompson Drag Radials ?

Just some trivia that I found out today .... I have a set of Mickey Thompson ET Street S/S drag radials on the back of my GS.

I always wondered who actually made drag racing tires for Mickey Thompson ... Certainly the Mickey Thompson family don't own a big tire manufacturing factory.

No, Mickey Thompson don't own a tire factory ... They are made by Cooper Tires !

http://coopertire.com/our-brands

So now you know
Old 04-07-2020, 06:39 PM
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We may soon have issues getting our MT's as they shut the plants down 2 weeks ago
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Originally Posted by Turbo6TA
Just some trivia that I found out today .... I have a set of Mickey Thompson ET Street S/S drag radials on the back of my GS.

I always wondered who actually made drag racing tires for Mickey Thompson ... Certainly the Mickey Thompson family don't own a big tire manufacturing factory.

No, Mickey Thompson don't own a tire factory ... They are made by Cooper Tires !

http://coopertire.com/our-brands

So now you know
wtf good find sir
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never even heard of some of those other brands
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Nice. I'm not sure it makes a difference, cooper makes some nice passenger tires, but interesting.
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One of but two American owned tire manufacturers remaining. The other is Goodyear.

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