Re: Ultimate Quattro tire?

["David Marshall (quattro mailing list)" <david@volkswagen.org>]

At 21:14 12/15/97 -0800, Doug Miller wrote:
>I saw a Quattro in a parking lot the other day that had a very aggressive
>set of studded snow tires on it. The brand was "H......  in a name that was
>over 12 letters long and had lots of K's and A's. I was so fascinated with
>the tread pattern and quantity of studs, that I completely forgot the name.
>Does anybody know what they were?  How about a source?  I parked the A6 on
>a slope today and the slight jar as it settled against the park pin broke
>the tires loose and I slid downhill in a most embarrasing fashion.  Please
>reply to my email.  Thanks in advance,
>
>Doug Miller
>dmiller@iea.com
>97A6Q Wagon, 93 LandCruiser w/diff locks (and well used skidplates), 71
>LeMans Sport V8 Convertible. Cannondale Super V 900 Comp.

They were Nokia(n) Hakkapelatta or something like that I can't spell it
right now!  Rated the number 1 studdable tire in Europe!  You can get
there, in Canada anyhow, at a plate called Kal Tire.  But I think Discount
Tires and The Tire Rack have them as well.

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