History of Flared Fender

Does anyone know the history of the flared fender? Or even have pictures of an original that was modified with the flared fender?

Brock here is an old post on that subject:

https://www.speedsterowners.com/forum/readmsg.asp?t=1497

A long, long time ago the same question was asked and I posted, I took it directly from,

This:

http://www.acmespeedshop.com/photos.html

Ought to give you a good idea of what Chris was talking about, the E, F and G Production classes within the SCCA field cars that fall within a certain look and year range and those classes are, very much, the inspiration for the wide body 356's. The Speedsters that raced back then, and even today, had/have the wide body look.

Thanks, you guys are great. What you have said also agrees with what I have heard. Thank you very much.

TC, great pics of the SCCA boy racers. Used to live near Watkins Glen race track and loved it all. My personal perspective is that tire technology was changing rapidly back then. Dunlop came out with their Gold Seal(?)and suddenly rubber got a lot wider and stickier in just a few years. The tires became legal for class racing. SCCA also had rules about fenders covering the tires, but no rules that excluded adding extra material to existing fenders to cover those tires. Wider wheels and custom wheel offsets pretty much did not exist back then. Fender flares were born and baptized with an immediate aura of performance improvement. It's still that way today.