The Wise Choice
FOR YOUR OLD CAR
Old World Tyres is a 100% Australian Owned Company, with no financial backing from overseas corporations. Supplying a wide variety of antique tyres.
We source antique style tyres from all over the world and do our best to retail them to our fellow enthusiasts at a very competitive price.
We have a very strong relationship with Lucas tyres, in the US. They make and supply a large range of antique tyres including tyres with the original Australian and Olympic, Dunlop Barnet and Glass tread patterns.
We stock a large number of antique tyre sizes and can readily supply a huge range of tyres from 10" through to 37" in both Cross Ply and Radial format.
We specialise in Australian Tread patterns for older cars, primarily the original Australian Olympic & Dunlop treads sourced from Lucas Tyres.
Hot Rod Tyres and wheels tailored to your specifications are an item we pride ourselves on being able to assist you with, so please email us or give Russell a call on 1300 854 324.
Meet The TEAM
Stuckey Tyre Service
Stuckey Tyre Service was started by my parents Colin and Betty Stuckey in December 1966. Dad had worked for Dunlop since the war and rose to State Manager before leaving to start his own family business. In 1969 I joined full time, having dropped out of the first year of an engineering degree at RMIT.
1969 was a big year for us. We purchased a Dunlop Tyre Service store in Brunswick that was closing, which became our base for the next 22 years.
But that all changed in 1972 when Dunlop offered us the Motorsport franchise for the Southern Division (SA, Vic and Tas). Our slogan “racing since 1972” comes from this significant event. We began attending Bathurst from 1973, looking after Victorian entrants who generally made up the larger share of the grid. Shortly thereafter I assumed the responsibility for tyre development, working in collaboration with Dunlop Motorsport Japan who sent technicians to Bathurst every year. My relationship with the Japanese was further enhanced when I became proficient at Japanese, having studied it at night school for 3 years.
In 1984 Dunlop appointed us as national Motorsport Distributor and I began attending all rounds of the Australian Touring Car Championship, encompassing Qld, NSW, TAS, SA and WA as well as Victoria. My life was an eternal round of travelling to race meetings, copious reports to Dunlop Japan and a yearly visit to the factory.
But the world of tyres was changing. Pirelli’s domination of the Group A Touring Car world with their radial ply slicks showed us we needed to adapt. We began a crash course in radial ply slick tyre development with Dunlop Japan. They had already developed smaller sizes for Toyota Corolla and Mitsubishi Starion but added larger sizes for our BMW 635, Mustang and Commodore.
So we spent 1985 and 1986 playing catch-up, testing with Brock Commodore, Rogers BMW, and Nissan Skyline etc. by the end of 1986 we were winning, qualifying and racing well with majority fields again.
In January 1995 we were devastated to hear that the Great Hanshin Earthquake had destroyed our beloved Dunlop Motorsport factory in Kobe Japan. Motorsport sales constituted 2/3 of our business, and 99% of these were made in the now destroyed Kobe factory.
Fortunately none of my friends in Japan were injured, and only one factory worker was killed. But we were faced with a massive dilemma. However turned to Dunlop UK to assist and they did not let us down. Immediately the tyre moulds were retrieved from the rubble they were airfreighted to Birmingham for development to begin. At Bathurst that year Larry Perkins won with Russell Ingall on the new UK made tyres.
Whilst Motorsport tyres still make up the majority of our sales, we have recently expanded into the Classic/Vintage tyre market for restored and collectible cars. We are the national Distributor for Classic tyres from Michelin and Pirelli, who make a remarkably wide range of iconic tyres from the 40’s to the 80’s. Famous tyres such as the Michelin XWX for Ferrari to the Pirelli Cinturato are in current production. In addition we distribute other classic tyres such as Lucas, Dunlop, Avon, Blockley, Vredestein and Goodyear.
Ours is a truly family business. Over the years there have been 20 wider family members working at various times in the business including my four children Chris, Jenny, Tori and Lachlan.
In September 2022 we agreed with Russell and Chris Holden to incorporate the Old World Tyre business into Stuckey Tyre Service and relocated the enterprise to Brunswick Victoria.
Russell Stuckey
