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where can you order new tires without having to take out a mortgage to pay for shipping?

Try summit racing.

Coker tire and Universal tire often have a once a year free shipping offer, just not at the moment.

Where in New York are you located.

Upstate near Utica

Summit Racing has free shipping, their list prices average high. Keep eye out for deals by the tire mfg.: Coker, Universal and Lucas.

Give David White of Kennebunk ME a call at 207-590-0180. He gave me a good deal on 19" tires for my Model A and I picked them up at his shop.

Do Coker, Universal and Lucas actually make tyres, or do they have them made for them to market?

Allan from down under.

Do Coker, Universal and Lucas actually make tyres, or do they have them made for them to market?

I believe there are two kinds of clincher (beaded edge) Model T tires: 1 Blockley; 2 All the other "brands". As I understand it, all are made in Vietnam. The country of origin is irrelevant. Quality depends on standards set by the importer. Blockley has different standards than the other importers (Coker, Lucas, etc.). Wards, Firestone, and others are similar in materials and quality. Their prices vary due to the costs of licensing the names. The Blockley folks say their tyres meet higher standards. The cost difference between Wards and Blockleys is less than $10, but shipping to US addresses from London is more than from Long Beach.

You could try Town Fair Tire if there is one near you. I brought Cokers from them special order. No shipping charge.

Try Speedway Motors. Just received the AD below indicating free shipping on orders over $149 on Coker tires.

I just ordered from Lucas Tire shipping was less than half of Langs and they do not charge sales tax so I saved a bunch of $$$$

How does your sales tax regime work if the vendor can decide whether or not to charge it? Seems odd to me.

Allan from down under.

Hello Alan,

Here is how we have to deal with sales tax at Langs.
Most Model T Parts houses also do the same as we do.

sales tax rates varies a lot depending on where you are in the US.

Massachusetts for example is at 6.25%
but just 10 miles up the road from here in New Hampshire it is 0%

When we sell items in person to someone or ship items within our state(Massachusetts) we have to collect tax. When shipping out of the state we do not collect sale tax because we are not shipping enough orders/dollar value of products sold anywhere else to require us to do so. When a company like us does not collect tax on a shipment it is then up to the purchaser to report it themselves but that again varies per state on what that actually means.

Here is a good list on when it make it a requirement to collect tax when shipping to each state.
https://www.nfib.com/out-of-state-sales ... uirements/

The only company that we deal with that is collecting sales tax for each state is Coker Tire.

What that means though for us and other companies like us that deal with Coker to ship order direct to customers is that they will charge sales tax based on where the tires are being delivered. But if we have Lucas tire ship to a customer directly they do not charge sales tax because they are also a smaller company like ourselves and only collects sales tax when shipped within their own state of California.

Pretty much the tire prices are also the same from the different companies, unless there is some sort of promotion going on like Speedway Motors or Summit Racing offering free shipping.

What we do with tires is have them ship direct from the vender to the customer, and just charge the customer what our vender charges us for shipping cost. We do not charge out the credit card for the customer until we get the invoice from he supplier to know actual shipping cost. Then the supplier give us a slight discount on the price of the tire. We do physically handle the tires so we don't have to get a full markup on them. A lot of the Other Model T Parts houses will do this as well.

For this specific order with John here it would of cost the same for him if he bought Ward Riversides tires from us or Lucas. I'm guessing he might of been looking at a more expensive tire we offered when he mentioned it was more expensive though us. Or though that we were collecting tax but we are not. Or we gave him a verbal estimate that was off on the shipping price. I have sent him an email asking him about that but have not heard back from him yet.

Steve, it sounds like a dog's breakfast! I pity you and your customers having to work around this.
We are fortunate in that a 10% Goods and Services Tax, GST, is levied by the Federal Government, so it is uniform all over the country. It covers all but essential food items in the main. Businesses pay GST on their inputs, and claim it back on their sales. The tax stops with the retail purchaser.

I guess having just 6 states to agree to the system made it easier to implement, rather than 50 different states.

Allan from down under.

correction on shipping cost, on earlier post I stated less than half cost, that's doing math quickly in my head ,not 100% accurate, Langs was $140.00, Lucas was $82.00 still a good savings that I couldn't turn down, same tire same price.