First off I'm JUST thinking of this, plus 17" tires are usually cheeper. I was wondering if anyone has used Stockton wheel out of California to widen their rims?

I'm thinking of going for the "Big-n-Little" look larger/wider in the back and running the regular stock rims in the front. I'll just be widening 2 of my Stock wheels leave the backspacing alone and maybe a 2-3 inches widening job. I'm thinking some 255-60s/17 for the front rims and 275 or 295-60s /17 on the back. You know kinda old school.

I had BFG 245-60s/15 and 275/60/15 on my 1972 LeMans but the rims were the same 15x8 stock Pontiac rim's. (Might have been only 15 x 7's) for the summer and stockers for the winter but it didn't get driving much just parked out back in winter.

I went home about 6 months later after basic to get the car and my rims, but someone had broken into my mom's storage pen you know for multiple tenents and stole them. I wanted to kick some *** that night.

Oh well just looking for info on widening the rims, thanks in advance.
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i have the stock 275 60 R20's so the 275 will fit for sure its a 20" diameter and 9" with rim i think my tires are 9.5" wide

 

255/60/17 = 29"/10"/17" 275/60= 30/11/17 295/60= 31/11.5/17

 

The only reason it would be bad is for tire rotation purposes. That would be my only reason to second think that. I'd like to see that though.

 

I'd imagine that cant be cheap, so why not just buy aftermarket wheels? you can pick up 17s rather cheap, ive got 285's on my stock 17s no problem

 

I am assuming it is a 2wd? If so then it would not hurt anything other than being able to rotate tires. If it were me going for that look, there would have to be as big a difference as possible front to back. smallest tire you can get on the front and like a real wide 50 on the back. I would also try to keep the height close. That is what I think of as old school hot rod, muscle car look.

 

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This is a great muscle car look, but I think it would look kinda off on a truck.