Back in my dragstrip days I just bought new cheater Mickey's for the back. The Mrs and I left the car show and I goosed the throttle spinning the tires up to about 80 mph. Came home and saw that one of the air shocks leaked and the body cut a ribbon out of one of the $400 tires. Ah, the ol' days of stupid shit.

Only vaguely interesting tire story was i the early 80's I worked for a while at a shop that did restorations and someone brought in a barn find Model T on a flat bed. It came from about 100 miles away if I recall. Anyway, still on the trailer it gets pulled in the shop and about 15 minutes later just by itself one of the tires blows with a pretty good "kerpow!". So after the jump scare everyone goes back to doing whatever it was, then about a half hour later another one blows while it was still sitting on the trailer and over the next hour of so all of them eventually wind up blowing out without any human intervention.

Otherwise not much tires-wise. I remember being horrified at my boss telling me to torch a "Knock Off" wheel from a Jaguar XKE that was rusted on but that's more about the wheel than the tire.