Tim's car is an A body that is a track car-lives on a trailer unless it's track time. Awesome car! Wrong application.
We are talking street driven E bodies that might get driven on the track in your dreams. I drive an E body on the road course that is a street car. If it was a track car only it would still have the 16x8's but with no tread competition tires. I have both the BFGs and the comp tires with tread. 255-50-16. How many tires do you need to choose from??? UTQG ratings are part of the criteria and the BFG fits the bill.
Yes I know you can fit 
size tire in there, but there's that word no one likes to talk about...compromise. I have provided feedback that no one else can give because few others play like I do on the road course. If it works so successfully on a street driven E body car that goes very fast on the road course [130mph] do you think it will work for you??? If it's not apparent my patience has grown short with this endless diatribe of shoehorning tires in wheel wells that tax the suspension, screw up the balance of the car and look out of place on that OLD car. I am weary of repeating myself
1. There are many different ways to set up an E-body for both the street and the track.
All of them require compromise, and while some are better than others, its not like there is one right answer.
2. Not everyone likes the same brand/model of tires, so giving a single option like the BFG G-forces (or BFG's in general) isn't a catch all. I might add, that the 255/50/16 G forces are currently on back-order nearly everywhere, including Tire Rack.
3. You're not the only person on this site that has driven an E-body over 130 mph. Or the only person that road tracks their cars. While you offer sound advice, you can't be upset that not everyone wants to follow it. Opinions are like, well, you know. And everyone has one.
The recipe for road-handling E-bodies was written a long time ago with TransAm and Nascar racing. But there are a lot of technologies and options available now that didn't exist then, so reciting the 1.24" torsion bars with re-indexed anchors, solid sway bars, 120 lb leafs and 16x8 in wheels mantra doesn't cut it by itself anymore. That's what was done because that's the best that was available at the time, or what the rules dictated. That doesn't make it the best now.
And regardless, I don't think that's what this thread was even
about to begin with. The original poster made no mention of racing of any kind, just asked an opinion about a certain type of rim. Even if 16x8 was the world's most optimal rim size and the 255/50/16 BFG the world's greatest tire, it doesn't mean that everyone would want to run them. Some people will want to run the biggest tire they can physically fit in the wheel well because they think it looks cool, others will want to be able to buy their tires at Costco, etc etc. Doesn't make it right or wrong. I think 14" rims look ridiculous, and the same for anything bigger than 18", but I'm not going to lose my patience because someone wants to put them on
their car.
