The new Camaro has become quite the stir in the auto world. Being a fierce rival of the Ford Mustang, it’s great to see the horsepower wars back in effect. With high horsepower builds coming directly from the factory in SS, ZL1, & COPO trim levels, it’s not uncommon to see these mean muscle cars on the street looking for their next victim to take down.

Maybe you won’t see a COPO Camaro cruising the highway, but within the last few months I’ve seen my fair share of SS & ZL1 Camaros riding around. However, what’s becoming more and more common is seeing these cars being driven with massive wheels and crazy paint jobs. Sometimes, the customization is taken as far as gutting the entire interior and replacing it with fiberglass loaded with speakers and flat-panel TV screens.

For those who aren’t familiar with these types of cars, they are called “Donks”. The definition of a donk is (courtesy of Wikipedia) “A type of highly customized automobile, typically an inexpensive American-built sedan modified by significantly increasing the ground clearance and adding large-diameter wheels with low-profile tires.”

This brings us to an important question: Should these beautiful muscle cars be riding around on massive 30-inch wheels and metal-flake & pearl paintjobs? Another question to think about is how safe this kind of set-up is. When it comes to having huge wheels on a car, parts need to be upgraded to handle the sheer size of the rims. This can even include performing a truck-style lift to the body of the car just to gain clearance for the wheels & tires.

Is this a good thing for car customizers to be doing to their rides? And even more importantly, should there be a federal regulation limiting wheel size? Whatever your decision, the donked-out Camaro is here, and doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon.