Mopar Dufuses in the 80s

Not Mopar but...

Circa 1985, one of my friends bought and wrecked a factory 4 speed 70 nova red with black bucket interior.
He paid too much from a retail classic car shop, but it was a solid car with a mildly built 350.

After the wreck he impulse bought (from the same retail dealer, again paying WAY too much), another red nova but this time gold int (was originally a gold car) auto on the column and 307 with a LOT of bondo in the quarters.

Day 2 of ownership he shows me this pair (not a set of 4) of 12" wide aluminum slots he just bought for it.

"No way" I said, those will rip your wheel arches off.

So he installs tires that are too narrow (IDK a 235 maybe) and the sidewall is really stretched, but because they are soo wide, even with the air shocks all the way up they are only an inch from the wheel well lips.

BTW these are the ONLY mods to the car.

The next week, I go to his house and there sits the car with the stock wheels and hubcaps back on it, but on both sides there is a huge, maybe 14" x 3" chunk of 2" thick bondo ripped from the middle of the wheel arches.