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Exhibit 99 Benninger Press Release

Contact Information:                For Release: October 14, 2005
Elliott N. Taylor
entaylor@amerityre.com
(702)293-1930 x113

Amerityre Hires Dr. Gary N. Benninger as Chief Operating Officer

Boulder City, NV, October 14/PRNewswire/ - Amerityre Corporation (OTC Bulletin
Board: AMTY) announces that it has hired Gary N. Benninger, PhD. Physics,
effective October 16th as its Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Benninger most
recently was employed by Magna International, Inc., a $20+billion diversified
auto parts supplier and its affiliate MEC, where he was Director of Technology
Development, reporting directly to the Chairman. In this capacity, Dr.
Benninger was responsible for identifying key new technologies as well as
managing the design, engineering and manufacturing launch of target products.

During 1998 and 1999, Dr. Benninger was the Chief Operating Officer of the
North American Operations of Becker Group, a $1.5 billion privately held
automotive interior systems supplier.  Prior to joining Becker, he was the
Executive Vice President of Engineering and R&D at Magna and also served as
Division General Manager and Vice President of Product Development. He has
also worked for Ford Motor Company as an engineering manager and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a research scientist.

"We are pleased to have someone with Gary's knowledge and experience joining
our management team," said Richard Steinke, President and Chairman of
Amerityre. "Gary's experience in bringing emerging technologies to market is
going to be key to successfully commercializing Amerityre's technology," he
added.

"I believe that my background in developing and manufacturing new automotive
products will contribute substantially to successfully implementing
Amerityre's business objectives," said Dr. Benninger. "I look forward to
working with the Amerityre management team and am excited about the prospects
for Amerityre's technologies,"  he added.

Amerityre is also actively engaged in the development of new technologies used
to produce polyurethane elastomer tires for highway and industrial
applications. Amerityre's polyurethane tire compounds and manufacturing
processes are considered proprietary technology.

For more information on Amerityre, visit its website at www.amerityre.com.


Certain information contained in this release may constitute forward-looking
statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of The Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  Such statements are made based upon
current expectations that are subject to risk and uncertainty.  Amerityre does
not undertake to update forward-looking statements in this news release to
reflect actual results of and changes in assumptions or changes in other
factors affecting such forward-looking information.
