I Messed Up And Need New Tires!

[onac255]

First off happy new year to all! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. Now my problem all started a week ago on a Sunday. My friend is in a car club called AM American Muscle and there are a bunch of stangs, vettes, trans ams, camaros, and a few lightnings. So anywho they invited me to get together with them at a car wash they were meeting up at. Me being the gear head that I am could not possibly say no. So it was a good day talking with the owners about their rides like compression, cam profiles, all motor vs. power adders, lsx vs mod motors, etc. Anyway after the car wash we all went out for some pizza. The pizza place turns out to be next to a Four Wheel Parts Center with a huge empty parking lot because it is Sunday. So after eating we all went out to our cars and went through the huge parking lot. Needless to say guys started doing burnouts (which were pretty lousy) and some even forgot the Anti-Fun button AKA traction control and they would rev up and drop the clutch and bog which was funny. So they started telling me "Well if you think you could do better lets see it!" and thats when I messed up. I did the sickest burnout I have ever done in my life put everyone to shame (I wish someone would have video taped it) completely whited out the parking lot. Then the aftermath... I mean i have done burnouts before but the tires never looked like the ones on my truck do. I mean they are completely ruined and chunked up. I guess the Dueler ATs and the type of parkinglot pavement did not get along to well. Anyways now I need new meats but I also hate my chrome clad cheap steelie wheels that are on my truck. So I was hoping to get some opinions. I do a lot and I mean a lot of highway driving probably 85% of my driving is on highways. That being said I am thinking about 18" or 20" wheels chrome of course since my truck has huge amounts of chrome already (which i personally do not like) so I want to keep the theme going. But the most important part is the tires. I am really leaning heavily towards a set of 33" Toyo Open Country M/Ts. What do you guys think/suggest I should get and where could I find some good deals? thanks in advance

 

PS I will try to get some pictures of the damaged Duelers (d**n good tire I might add).