Big wheels, stereotypes and Italian design

[Tony Martie <tony@domain.elided>]

Doug wrote,
"I guess us oldsters -- those 35-plus -- need
to start using some shorthand so the young people nowadays know when
we're trying to have fun."

There you go again, now you are excluding me from "your group" by 
presuming that I must be a young'un.  What brought you to that 
conclusion?  The wheel thing again?
It just so happens that I fit into your age group, being 36 ripe old 
years myself.

Tony, if you want to put big, honkin' wheels on your spider, do it.
Just know that, to some of us, it might turn out to be like pink
flamingos in the yard.  In composition, the parts of a whole have to
work, and the Italian artists envisioned what they envisioned, which
surely was not a GT3000.

Thankfully, wheel size will not transform my Spider into a GT3000.
I believe the Italian artists envisioned the what they did, with the 
wheels and tires they had available to them at the time.  If something 
with the Spiders lines and proportions were introduced today do you 
think it would be sporting 14" wheels and narrowish high profile tires?
Honestly?

I'd bet my earring that they would not.  Sorry, there's no other 
jewelry on my person to wager.

Tony Martie
78 Spider
http://tmpd.net

I think the pink flamingos would go nicely with that dead Alfetta out 
back.
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