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Welcome to

Old World Tyres 

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Proudly 100% Australian owned family business with NO financial backing from overseas corporations!

Chris and I (Russell) are a husband and wife team, who have always enjoyed working together. After years of restoring cars as a hobby, we decided that rather than do the things we were both commercially trained in, we would do together the things we both love (playing with old cars) and combine our talents to create beautiful things. We operate OWL from our 7 acre farmlet in the beautiful wine grape region of Mudgee which is situated about 3 ½ hours west of Sydney. For more about us (Russell & Chris), see below after the contact details 

Within our business we do a few things, all revolving around old cars:

  • Antique Tyres - we import tyres for old cars and plenty of them ! We have a strong relationship with Lucas Tyres in the US and stock many Lucas tyres, which have the original Australian Olympic tread pattern. We also stock or can source Antique tyres from Firestone, BF Goodrich, American Classic radials and many others. See our Tyres page for more details

  • Importing - If you are looking to import anything from the United States we can assist, whether it is a 50’s Cadillac or 1903 Steam car, a jet ski, a pair of doors or just some heavy stuff you purchased on EBay, we can bring them into the country for you.

  • Cars and parts for sale - in our travels, we often come across some varied, beautiful and interesting cars and parts. Check out the For Sales pages to see our latest acquisitions !!!

  • Restorations - these days are generally for ourselves, but if time permits, we squeeze in a customer restoration (we are currently restoring a 1913 original Cadillac ute !) 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about any thing on our site please feel free to ring us and inquire. 

1300 854 324

 

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Email:             sales@oldworldtyres.com.au


Phone within Australia: 1300 854 324 
Phone Int:                        61 422219911

US cell:                            757 434 0056 please note the US cell is now active all year round, but there is a time difference so we may not answer when it is 2am in the morning !!

                                           

Mail Address:

PO Box 786

Mudgee     2850

New South Wales, Australia        

 

We hope you enjoy our site and look forward to doing business with you.

 

Regards

 

Russell and Chris Holden.

 

If you have any feedback on how we can make our new website better please do contact us and we would like to hear from you.

More about Us 

Russell:

Well I am actually a Chef by trade! Though the love of cars has been in my blood from an early age. I started work at 11 as a delivery boy for a local Pharmacist on my push bike (drug peddler at 11!). After buying a Beatles record with my first effort at saving, a 1959 car was my second effort (and I have since spent plenty on both, Beatles and cars). By the age of 14, I had 3 old cars in my parent’s back yard (much to their dismay) and I’ve never been without one since. After many, many old cars and many challenging restorations throughout all decades of manufacture, I decided it was time to get a Veteran and pursued this focus until I purchased a 1904 Curved Dash Oldsmobile in 1995. Since then, my passion for veteran cars, and the restoration and manufacture involved with this, has led me through my own restoration exercises to the OWL business - the present, where I now specialize and hone my many talents and focus on the finer details into this one area of restoration and manufacture.

Chris:            

Chris is trained in Biochemisty, and was employed in liver cancer research for some time but the bureaucracy got her down. So she did the “right thing” (good for me anyway) and came to work for me “us” in our restaurant. The rest as they say is history, Chris was Book keeper / Office administrator for our 70 odd staff and kept me on my toes to boot! After moving to Mudgee to “semi retire” and a sea (tree) change, Chris decided to further her work in Accounting and still assists other businesses within the region. Gifted with small, steady hands (great for getting things out of the sumps), she understands most mechanical things (most of the time, although she still has to turn the map around when we travel!). Grease under her fingernails isn't a problem, (until she has to catch up on book work the following day) !!

As you can see from the list below cars (and bikes) keep us busy, vehicles we have are:

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  • 1899 Haynes Apearson, this is a real basket case but when do you find a pre 1900 car these day?

  • 1902 Thomas Model 17 Detachable rear entrance Tourneau (restored)

  • 1905 Glide (see details at  "What's New")

  • 1906 Cadillac Model H touring, 4 cylinder (under Restoration)

  • 1908 Cadillac Model G (this is a long term project that I still need a heap of parts for!)

  • 1908 Black Model 30 Delivery Van (restored).

  • 1909 Cadillac Speedster (under restoration)  

  • 1915 Chevrolet H4 Baby Grand (original)

  • 1918 Cadillac 5 passenger Touring (restored)                         

  • 1934 Cadillac La Salle Super charged Boattail Speedster (under restoration)

  • 1937 Chevrolet 4 door convertible "tourer" (Holden bodied, restored)

  • 1938 Chevrolet 4 door convertible "tourer" only the 4th known to exist, (un-restored)

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Common Tyres with stock:

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  • 185 80 R13 ribbon White Walls  (great for early Holdens and Fords)

  • 560 x 15"

  • 195 75 R15 - ribbon White Walls

  • 205 75 R15 - ribbon White Walls

  • 215 75 R15 - ribbon White Walls

  • 225 75 R15 - ribbon White Walls

  • 235 75 R15 - ribbon White Walls

  • 500-525 x 16"

  • 550 x 16"

  • 600 x 16 in both Black & White Wall

  • 650 x 16" in both Black & White Wall

  • 700 x 16" in both Black & White Wall

  • 525-550 x 17" in both Black & White Wall (Australian Olympic Tread)

  • 600-650 x 17"

  • 450 x 18" - Australian Olympic Tread

  • 550 x 18" - Australian Olympic Tread

  • 450 x 19"

  • 475-500 x 19" - Australian Olympic Tread

  • 550 x 19"

  • 750 x 19"

  • 475-500 x 20"

  • 600 x 20" in both Black (Australian Olympic Tread) & White Wall

  • 650 x 20"

  • 700 x 20"

  • 440-450 x 21" in both Black (Australian Olympic Tread) & White Wall

  • 50/475 x 19" Black Wall

  • 525 x 21" in both Black (Australian Olympic Tread) & White Wall

  • 600 x 21"

  • 600 x 22"

  • 30 x 31/2 (Wards Riverside the original Model T tyre) and "All White" with tread or Smoothies

  • 3 x 3" in both Black & All White

  • 400 x 23"

  • 500 x 23"

  • 4 x 24" (32 x 4) - Australian Olympic Tread

  • 450-500 x 24" (33 x 5) - Dunlop Super 90 Tread

  • 400 x 25" (33 x 4) - Australian Olympic Tread

  • 500 x 25" (35 x 5)

  • 400 x 26" (34 x 4) - Australian Olympic Tread

  • 450 x 27" (36 x 4 1/2)

From the Wards 30 x 3 (24") 30 x 3 1/2 (23" Beaded Edge clincher) in both Black and White through the:

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  • 30 x 5 (600 x 20)

  • 32 x 6 (650 x 20)

  • 31 x 4, (440 x 23")

  • 32 x 4 1/4 (500 x 23)

  • 33 x 5 (600 x 23)

  • 33 4 1/2 (500 x 24)

  • 36 x 6 (700 x 24)

  • 38 x 7 (750 x 24)

  • 40 x 8 (900 x 24)

  • 33 x 4 (25")

  • 35 x 5 (500 x 25")

  • 34 x 4 (26")

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