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Finally!!! 7 doors!!!

pbryantr

pbryantr

Member of the 107 hp club
Joined
May 23, 2006
Location
Panther City
At last my search proves fruitful! A few streets over, there was a 1980 245 that I'd seen around the neighborhood. Always admired it from a distance. One day I saw the car in the driveway being washed... and wondered... Nah. Then later the same day I see the car in front of the house with a FOR SALE sign!

270k miles, autotragic. Since it is bone friggin' stock I am having a hoot driving it. There's an exhaust leak I need to locate and I think the driveshaft has a funny thump to it, but these are going to be addressed nonetheless.

...oh, and the AC works. :cool:

Anyway, on to the pics:

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Classic. Very nice car and in good shape. There are few of those on the road and even fewer in good shape. Some lady around my part of town drivers a red one that has been restored. Pretty neat to see people taking care of those great wagons.
 
badvlvo said:
Nice find. Flathood it and leave the quad rounds, a little lower and some wheels to have a great looking ride.
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I have a flathood in the garage that needs painting. I planned to put it on the 242 with a satin black paint job, but I'm almost tempted to put it on the green wagon.

What kind of wheels do you think I should put on? I thought about painting a set of 740 steelies silver (15-inch) and fitting some older hubcaps (I also have some chrome centercaps I got off German e-bay) for a retro look. However, if I were to use real wheels, I was thinking about powdercoated white Nova/Sirius wheels OR WRX-ish gold Coronas.

Any ideas? Photoshop suggestions are welcome.

Oh, and one mod I definitely plan to do is replace that damned boat wheel that's on the wagon. Too friggin' big for me! Just haven't had time to swap in the Momo I got for the 242 and take out the GT wheel to put in the wagon.
 
Guess my wagon is just too good to be modded?? :roll:

I'm really interested in hearing your opinions Should I leave it stock or make some very subtle mods (i.e., flathood and 15" steelies) or should I make obvious mods (lowering springs and white powdercoated Nova/Sirius wheels)?

Also should I tint it? Will it detract from the classic look if I get a light tint?

Thanks folks!
 
I would lower, light tint, flathood and wheels. I have some old ipd 15" wheels on mine. My other opiton was some 15" steelies. I have old ipd springs and that got me low enough. The flathood looks so good with the quad rounds.

As for the steering wheel, I scored an R-sport out of Pick and Pull in Reno for $13.95 with the adaptor! So I solved that problem.
 
badvlvo said:
I would lower, light tint, flathood and wheels. I have some old ipd 15" wheels on mine. My other opiton was some 15" steelies. I have old ipd springs and that got me low enough. The flathood looks so good with the quad rounds.

As for the steering wheel, I scored an R-sport out of Pick and Pull in Reno for $13.95 with the adaptor! So I solved that problem.
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I agree that flathoods look good with the quad rounds, which is why I have quads on my 242 and planned to add a flathood.

These are good suggestions and I will certainly look into those. I plan to use a normal wheel with a GT horn pad as that is more period-correct compared to a R-sport wheel
 
Nope, Amar. Actually yours was the inspiration for the white wheels because black just doesn't do it with green.
 
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