Reply to "Group4 steel flares"

Hey Guys,
I love the look of a fat and wide Pantera like at 5-S but there is one thing I don't get. If you can already get the biggest tire in production under an unflared car, why spend $10,000 on flares, paint, wheels and tires? Doesn't pushing the wheels out put a lot of pressure on things like wheels bearings and undo a lot of the front end engineering that went into the car in the first place? What's it like to drive a car with the wheels offset that much? Maybe the change in offset is less than it looks like from the pictures. I remember putting on mag wheels we picked up from Sears or someplace back in the 70s and we always screwed up wheel bearings and the cars were real twitchy to drive. Mounting the wheels before the flares sounds like good advice. We call a full wheel well the "C" tit in a "B" cup look. A Pantera should be well endowed.