Virgin sheet metal is a lot easier to work on than rusted stuff is
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I would (and did) stretch the wheel wells now before you finish the car and paint it.
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My car has the wheel wells stretched five inches, three inches forward of the original axle centerline and two inches to the rear, I also moved the rear end forward one inch at the same time
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My car in this picture has 315x60x15 MT ET Street Radails on ten inch rims with 5 3/8 backspacing (it was suppose to be 5.5 backspacing
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)I also have a set of 10.5x31x15W tires on ten inch rims with the 5.5 backspacing and they fit as well as the M/T radials do and the slicks fill the rear wheelwells up a little better
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I use ladder bars and coil overs and full size wheel tubs into the stock sub frames
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EDIT: Oops, forgot to attach the picture
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Last thing, several years ago I was at Mopar race at Woodburn drag strip here in Oregon, a younger racer came up and stoop down to look at my tires and car, he stood up and said "you can't fit those tires on these cars, I have a 1971 Duster and there is now way I can fit that size tire on my car
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I let him look at it for a while and finally told him my 1/4 panels are not stock, he gave me a weird look and stoop down again and took another, closer look
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I fool him and a lot of other Mopar racers and street people
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Do it now,(sheet metal work) not later
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