Previous owner handywork stories

The guy who had my Dart before me was a friend of my dad's. In the early 80's, my dad put a bigger cam, a 750 AVS, a set of X-heads, and 4.56 gears in it for him. The car was a real handful on the crappy street tires he had on it. My dad gave him an old set of 7" Casler cheater slicks that were laying around the garage. They were 32 inches tall, and they wouldn't fit in the wheel openings. The guy and his buddies were getting ready to run the car at the track, so he told his buddies he was leaving the garage for 10 minutes, and when he came back he wanted the tires on the car. He didn't care how they did it, just get it done. When he came back, the slicks were on it. The took a big hammer, and beat the front of the wheel openings forward until they had enough clearance. The front of the openings are smashed even with the wheelwell. The car had been painted about 2 weeks before that, and they weren't nice about their hammer work. It was like that when I bought it in 1995, and it's still like that now. I just tell people it makes the car look mean.