Narrator: Have you ever wondered why all car tires you see are black? It wasn't always like this. When automakers first started using rubber tires, they were white, the color of natural rubber.

In a world of luxury cars painted endless shades of silver ... there are narrow white strips on the tire sidewalls. It's not quite the whitewall heyday of the 1950s, but for a modern ultra ...

Classic car tires also have a tread pattern that looks ... Some choices come down to personal—or period—preferences, like white sidewall lettering (commonly called OWL, or outline white ...