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Old 04-15-2013, 03:01 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by Mr.Jay View Post
Actually the fad originated from Germany where they have a law that your tires can not stick outside of your fenders so guys started running wider wheels with smaller tires and cambering their cars to get the tires to tuck into the wheel wells to maintain legality.
Thanks, I did not know that and bet it did. I remember seeing Japanese cars cambered before the 2000s also and I'm sure it existed in American shores back then. But the time/place where it transitioned from mere domestic existence [or foreign fad] and adapted to a full on American fad specifically known as "hellaflush" complete with Americanized terminology seems to have been in NorCal. In fact, the term "hella" is Bay Area vernacular used extensively by its residents and hip hop artists E40 and the late Mac Dre since way back.
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