.....i kinda like the skinny/fat look....
The fats and skinnies were all the rage when I was young - folks trying to emulate race cars on the street
and all....
Problem was, that put the least amount of rubber on the end of the car that had the most braking ability, not
to mention that whole inertia thing when it was time to stop - especially in urgent braking situations.
In short, it was dangerous as hell.
Reminds me of one story in particular - and perhaps another old NeHOA member remembers this one as well:
At one NeHOA "meet" I attended in the 80's (can't remember where, but I want to say PA?) a few dozen of us
Mopar owning club member types all lined up to cruise to an event.
We all witnessed a first gen Camaro, all shiny in it's GM glory and riding on "fats and skinnies" plow into the
back of a compact station wagon with a family on-board, in particular with a little girl in the back of the wagon
(like we all did when we were kids).
Dude in the Camaro was doing his best to banty rooster past all of us in the Mopar convoy and when he
realized he needed to stop in a hurry to avoid the station wagon, instead slid for a country mile as those skinny
front tires locked up - and since it was a two lane country road and he was in the WRONG lane, there was nowhere
else to go.
Plowed right into the back of that little wagon....
Thankfully, everyone was ok but shaken up of course - and we all gave that Camaroochi owner unmitigated HELL
for being such an idiot.
I never was fascinated by the whole "pro street" craze and never did the fat/skinny thing because well, it looked
sort of retarded to me - not to mention, overdone to hell and back - and as much as I liked messing with cars
to supposedly improve performance or what have you, I never wanted to take anything away from their being
functional at the least.
They didn't stop that great to begin with and since I always had manual steering cars, they steered plenty hard
for me without making it worse by overloading the front tires even more.
Just didn't make sense to me...
