Needing new tires

You know, you guys are probably right. I'm sure you guys know better than the engineers that actually designed the tire. Maybe the engineers just don't really understand that the handling on a musclecar with 70 series 14" tires is so abysmal that it's probably not possible to make it any worse, so you might as well run oversized tires because they look cooler.

Hot rodding is about making your car perform BETTER. Putting wider tires on tiny little stock rims doesn't make anything better. You're just throwing away money on a larger, more expensive tire without getting any of the benefits. You'd get better performance out of the right size tire, and save some money to boot.