Wheel spacers

[DGraber460 at aol.com]

I spent an enjoyable afternoon talking with another lister, looking over his 
84 URQ with 8" Ronals. Beautiful car! Those wheels transform the car from 
good to great!
There are 2 aspects to the "transformation," the concave design, and the wide 
stance appearance, read full wheel arches.
During the conversation, wheel spacers came up as a means of filling the 
wheel arches without buying new wheels. I had not followed previous threads 
on this, as I hadn't considered using them. Searching the archives, I found 
several references to spacers, with values at around $50 US each.
Is that the going value? I have 3 sets of 6x15 wheels (2 Ronals, 1 BBS), and 
have a hard time justifying another set of wheels, but at $200.00, spacers 
are not a "less expensive" alternative.
It appears that spacers are for fitting wider tires, and not for a budgetary 
method of achieving fuller wheel wells, and a wider stance.
It's great to finally start thinking about appearance on the FrankenQuattro 
(brought back from the dead with parts borrowed from the graves of others).
Any input greatly appreciated.

Dennis