In case other people have been waiting for these to be back in stock, Longstone tyres got a new delivery today (the person I spoke to on the phone helped unload them). Usual disclaimers, etc.
For those of you living in the US, Lucas Classic Tires in Long Beach, CA has a fresh stock of these tires, currently offered at $159/ea. Ask for Russ.
Lee
Does anyone have any comments regarding these versus the Blockley offering?
The Blockleys are quite a bit cheaper and I like the tread pattern but are they any good?
How you going to use the car? If your going to drive it hard then suspect the CN36 will be worth the extra money, I am certainly happy with the performance of mine. I believe they made with one of the soft modern compounds so are quite grippy but have very predictable/consistent break away.
If it will be driven more gently then brockley offering might be good.
Please do tell us how brilliant they are and can we see some pictures.
A while ago a German magazine Klassik Auto Bild did an independent tyre test
cinturato.net/images/test-c … s-0716.pdf
I think it is pretty clear which tyres are the tyres of choice - and which are absolutely not!
First time out today with the new Pirelli’s. Always difficult comparing new tyres with old hard tyres, but they stick like sh1t to a blanket 
Tried a really twisty B road and it went round the corners like it was on rails. I would have been sliding with the old tyres (9.5 year old Michelin XAS but not FF). The XAS transformed the car when I fitted them but you don’t realise the loss of grip and how much you start to ease off. Best drive in ages 
Some pictures taken outside the local Tesco Express on the way home. The tyres were nice and warm.
That is good to hear. I bet that bit of nice sunshine we had this weekend made it even better. i was at Oulton Park Gold Cup. there was a good turn out of Elans there. I never got to watch them race they must have been the grid just before or after me.
Do you mind if i use those pictures in my media?
Did you get to the edge of the grip. The bit where it starts to move without letting go. that is the extra special bit that Cinturato do better than anything else. You might need a good bit of space for that. not really ideal on an A road.
Sure, no problem.
No, I was just getting used to the tyres. I’ll push them a bit harder next time The Wye valley is full of tourists at the moment, and I had to wait until 7-8pm for the roads to get less busy. It was chaos earlier on, two cars overtaking a cyclist on a blind corner, a broken down car with hazards on in the middle of the road, horse boxes and caravans galore!
When i had my yellow Lotus Elite, i was out giving it a gentle thrashing, then i popped over this hump back bridge to find some temporary traffic lights with a really long queue that nearly had my plastic rocket burried in the back of it. Fortunately i was fitted with a feresh batch of Cinturato. That is the sortof circumstance where you need fresh rubber.
Dougal
I would suggest that if you couldn’t see that the road ahead was clear and you that you nearly hit stationary cars over the bridge, then you were driving much too fast for the conditions. You were on a public road not a race track.
Andy
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That is exactly what i thought.
My first experience with CN36’s was on 2002 Tii in uk, great grip progressive slides = whole lot of fun.
Then roll into 23 and I’ve fitted them to 73 911 and love it. Changed from R series tyres.
V
I have a vague recollection of that Tii
Hi Everyone
I’ve just put a set on my Plus 2 and they’re excellent
Regards
Andy
Oo goody. can we see some pictures please
Does anyone have experience with sourcing these tires or similar in Canada?
If you search on here you will find several people in Canada and the US have had them shipped from Longstone tyres in the UK. Dougal replied in a thread last December saying shipping costs to Canada was £60.
https://lotuselan.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=52627&start=45
There’s also Lucas Classic tires (official distributor for the Pirelli Collezione range in the US).
https://lucasclassictires.com/tires/165vr13-pirelli-cinturato-cn36/
Old new tires — or are they new old tires? Whatever. Do the sidewalls have date codes?