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Why wouldn't you just get a later series car?has anyone here ever grafted Series 4/5 tail lamp housings /quarter extensions onto a early series????
I dont want to get any hate mail over this but has anyone here ever grafted Series 4/5 tail lamp housings /quarter extensions onto a early series????
Carl Christianson's series 3 race car had the later series rear quarters. Grafting the late series fender section to an early series requires removing top 3 or 4 inches of the early fender up to about the front of the trunk lid including a cut to remove the tail light area.. You don't need to remove the entire fender. The fender on the big fin cars is not level as on series 4 & 5. It's higher at the rear top of the fin. Never measured it but roughly an inch higher.I dont want to get any hate mail over this but has anyone here ever grafted Series 4/5 tail lamp housings /quarter extensions onto a early series????
Thanks for the response--I found an early series cheap and nearby several years ago and just dont really care for the fins--I bought some late quarter/lamp sections on ebay while back---there may not be enough of the sections to do this correctly according to a reply further up the page---you have any late "tops" that you removed to replace with early fins???--Need some early fins???Actually, this is done more often than you may think .
When I break a car, I always keep a sizable section of the taillamp fins, be they pointed or late production. Tho most requests I fill are for guys with later series wanting pointed fins for their SIV/SV. I occasionally get the latter.
Mark .…. volvoguys
I dont really understand the above, what are you suggesting?Look at the small lamps on the Sebring cars! They used the common round ones, you could mate to a piece of sheet metal and attach like the pointy fin lights did
Like thisI dont really understand the above, what are you suggesting?