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I have run Hoosiers for many years. I have a friend who sells them and takes good care of me with cost and delivery. I want to try a stiff sidewall tire but Hoosier doesn't offer one in the size I need. GoodYear doesn't either but Mickey Thompson does. I start calling all my sources looking for my best cost and delivery. My buddy Billy owns a tirestore in town and tells me he can get a set, reasonable cost and delivery and he's 5 minutes from the house. I have another friend Dale who lives over an hour away and he too has a source that can get me tires at a decent cost but then I got to drive a long ways. Billy gets the tires and I go up Friday and they are not even a matching set of tires. They are the right size, part number but one is very old and they do not have the same looking sidewall markings. I ask him to call his source to get me a matched set. Yesterday his source says he can send another set Friday. I need tires sooner so I call Dale. He calls his source and they have sold the tires they had last week and have no more and don't know when they will get more. I call another friend who works for Doug Herberts and he says he has a matched set of tires so this morning I am going there to get those. Very frustrating dealing with the suppliers of M/T slicks. They seem to be under stocked and not real clever about matching tires up. M/T tires are good so if you find a good source for your tires you may want to keep their number close and support them. I have been told buying slicks has become a real pain the past few years with old stock and uncaring/unskilled suppliers. Now I have experienced it personally. Wish me luck today.......LOL. RM