I do like old T/A cars with flares. I had considered cutting the car in half front to back because the lines are sooooo simple on the car left to right and just widening it out 3 or 4 iches but then that is custom glass, etc etc. I was going to do that to the 914 originally and it was going to be an overall pretty brutal expense. Then, along the lines Payton points out, I thought about trying to flare front and rear like an 80s BMW M3 or Porsche 944 and just cut at the upper body lines and pull the fenders out. Physically moving the whole thing out like that Ring Bros car, oof, again, rough on the pocket book but certainly more subtle! Slick idea, and seeing their cars in person at SEMA is pretty impressive, but
I am a baller, I just don't mention I run in the Little League crowd
Number one problem I have is I want the car to look like a basically stock 66 SS with a simple roll cage and nice wheels, lowered - a typical restomod. With the large backspace on the wheels, you wouldn't even think they were wide unless you knelt down and actually looked from the front or rear to see how wide. Sleeper concept. No cowl hood, no nothing. I plan to use the stock console even tho' the sequential has a funky, 2-handle shifter that will stick up through it. Flaring of any type will detract from that because that Nova is seriously as flat as a barn down the side. I was talking about the BMW/Porsche thing with a friend last night looking at the car and he said basically that same thing I have thought - the sides are just too flat so anything will become noticeable.
It will be more of a sleeper at 6" height than 4" height, and I am only raising the body and interior, so at least most everything else will be low and centered and shouldn't impact handling too much. At least that is what I have been telling myself the past couple days waiting for the reality to sink in haha.