Quoting: Titsy
I did say wider wheels were a bad idea...
Nah wider wheels are ever a bad idea when the car used tobe on skinny crossply equiveleants
Quoting: Titsy
Prey tell what the fix was...
Simply push the panel out, if you look at the pictures the cut outs are square so my simply placing a 2x4 along the inside of the arch and gently jacking against the otherside of the wheel well you can gradually create the space required to get clearance. Its an old hotrod trick, on modern cars they do a simaler thing using this
Now there is enough room to get your hand between the arch and the sidewall, and its hardly noticable from the original look of the car.
Quoting: Roadkill
Quoting: Titsy
Not sure they suit the car... I think smoothys look better on trucks or at a streach 50's or older cars...
I, personally, agree - especially the truck part - but it's Graemey's ride.
I personaly like smoothies on mid 50's and early 60's, my second choice on the catalina would have been a set of crager's but they were double the price. Baby moons would have been period for this car so smoothies were pretty close and let me go to a 15" rim
Next year i hope to be able to throw on an airride system but for this year my priority was handling and looks on a bdget. Mike says the sway bar i bought is twice the thickness of the old one so that with the new shocks should realy help control the roll of this old boat
