Replacement tire for 1980s Turbo Leopard RC car

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I thought I would try fixing up one of our old radio control cars from the 1980s. The front tires have basically fallen apart, so I created these in an attempt to replace them. The original tires were on a "Turbo Leopard" race car. I think it was sold under various brand names including Acetek, Nikko, Samco, and RadioShack. The original tires say "56.00-30-16" which I realized indicated the size of the tires (diameter, torus diameter, etc.). Printing in TPU came out okay--not as good as the original, of course, but better than no tires, of course! Printing on a raft with branched supports worked pretty well. I also tried putting in a support between the sidewalls, to be cut out after printing, which proved somewhat challenging to remove, but I left it in the STL file. The Blender file is also included.