[DeTomaso] !7" wheels on stock body Pantera

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Larry and Burrid, 

Minor wheel observations: 

Late '74, serial number 7171 stock body Pantera L with Pantera Performance Center 17 x 9 Kinesis wheels will handle BFG G-Force 255-40-17 tires and 4 degrees positive caster *after* some gentle and discrete recurving of the front fender lip and contour............ FWIW 

Warmest regards, Chuck Engles 


---- Larry Finch <fresnofinches at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I purchased the Campy clones from Pantera East, made by Boyd Coddington.
>
> On the boxes it said the 16x8 wheels had a 5.375 back space and the
> 17x11 wheels had a 6.5 back space.
>
> I run, as most do with those wheels, 245/45x16 and 335/35x17 tires.
>
> My car is a January '72 build narrow body with fender lips fully rolled.
>
> The 245 barely clear things in the front - there is the slightest full-turn
> scrubbing on the rearward inside wheelwell.
>
> The 335 fit just fine and only occasionally rub the R/R fender lip,
> but my car sits WAAY low.
>
> I have always thought these two widths were about the maximum one could
> manage to fit on a stock car.
>
> You wrote you have 275/40x17 front tires. Do you mean they are installed on
> your Pantera and they are actually fitting?
>
> Larry