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240 eye sore removal

who likes the tire hump?


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slovo240

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not sure what to call this style hood.


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its not finished but its there. that's about its for eye sores except maybe the 2nd set of doors behind the two doors.
I love the look of a 240 but not with those ugly spare tire lumps on the rear of the cars, so I did this.

and this

like this

and this

all with this

now using a plasma cutter really makes it easy , unless you have converse on. I had performed this to my first 240 with electric tin snips. next you will need to cut and weld a flat piece of metal back in there, or I have used high grade construction adhesive and wish I had repeated that instead of welding because of the heat and that construction adhesive lasted through 2 NY winters without so much as a crack. personally I just think it looks better this way and its pretty easy to do .
 
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Dat 'hood mod.

The cars were born ugly, the formal hood or spare tire wells alone matter little. Full size spare is nice if you actually do get a flat and have to change it in the middle of BFE nowhere.
 
Y amight want to flip that grill 180* so that it's upright as intended.
 
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I think I might flip my grille/grill around now, as well. I'm intrigued by arrows pointing down instead of up, and having to read upside-down and backwards. At least watching other people stare at it for the first time would add 2 points (out of a possible 5,000 total points) of entertainment value to my day.

http://grammarist.com/usage/grill-grille/
 
like I said its not finished you will see. I plan to flip the emblems , I mean the grill isn't even mounted yet. geese
 
I was somewhat serious. I might try arrow-down for a week a see how the overall week went. That might sound superstitious, but sometimes that's how I operate.

TBH, I never even noticed the spare humps. Thanks for adding another thing to my ever-growing list of "things to prove you have OCD." I think all of us on this board must have least a smidgen of OCD.
 
I was somewhat serious. I might try arrow-down for a week a see how the overall week went. That might sound superstitious, but sometimes that's how I operate.

TBH, I never even noticed the spare humps. Thanks for adding another thing to my ever-growing list of "things to prove you have OCD." I think all of us on this board must have least a smidgen of OCD.

Yes, at least a smidgen. At least when we take the time.;-):lol:
 
Have you considered vertical?
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TBH, I never even noticed the spare humps. Thanks for adding another thing to my ever-growing list of "things to prove you have OCD." I think all of us on this board must have least a smidgen of OCD.

The 242 GTs had the spare tire wells eliminated from the factory.
 
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