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Originally Posted by jiffyjhn
I’ve seen quite a few cars on the road with ‘stanced’ wheels, where the wheels stick out the fender with 35-45 degrees angle from vertical.
I’ve never understood the purpose of doing this.
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Well, you see, jiffyjhn, it all started back in the late 1940s. A bunch of guys were down at the corner garage/gas station and one of them brought a couple of cases of beer. One of the guys had a Mercury and wanted to put lowering blocks under the rear leaf springs and heat up the coil springs in the front to make it lower.
To give them enough room they cut the bump stops off the front and rear and then took a torch and heated up the rear leaf springs and front coil springs till they were flat.
After they consumed a couple more cases if beer, they decided that the top looked too tall so they chopped the top. Then after a quick trip down into Mexico to get the interior tuck-n-rolled and back for an Earl Scheib paint job, one had the perfect car -
Now days, the kids are trying to get their cars really low, but the modern day suspensions won't allow that much of a cut, so they have to camber out the wheels to get the oil pans to drag. They haven't figured how to chop the top -
