As some of you know I am refreshing an 81 245
http://members.shaw.ca/swellpeople/Volvo%20Page.htm

I am considering redoing the front end and hood with the 78 GT hood and front end. My hood has some bad rust under the front lip seam that I don't really care to fix, and I have a line on a 78GT with all the goods in decent shape.

I would like to hear/see about anybody's experience with this set up, and hopefully anybody with pictures would rock!

Thanks Brickers!

-Phil

I did it to an '84 242DL. I did it for the same reasons you did. The hood was shot, and I had a '75 parts car.

Since the '75 had a black grille and buckets, and the '84 had a black bumper, I thought it looked swell.

where did you get those wheels? I love them...and I want them.

Ryan
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VOLVO LOVER WITH AN 80 AND AN 82

They actually came with the car, as did another pair, (the gold ones Jordan talks about that he bought from me). They are Riken 2-piece, but I don't know the actual model.

-Phil

IF you really want I have a set of the rims. I bought them from Phil a few years back, They are just holding up our 122 now. Don't have hub caps though.

;) nasty47@hotmail.com if you really really want... oh they are gold and need to be painted black to be sexy like phils.


Phil, Do this swap, it looks awsome on wagons. I have a GT, and I love the front end. We are probably going to do this on my brothers 245Ti.

Where are you getting your work done Phil? Shoot me of an e-mail. nasty47@hotmail.com since my volvoeh is down..... I'll be down teh Van way soon

Jordan

You can cut and paste this to see some before and after pics of my old 244. I found a real '83 flathood in the yards and grabbed the hood, made my own grill. The 245ti is using a hood off of a GT also but no pics of it up yet.

http://www.homestead.com/volvo2/Turbo2day.html

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Dave Shannon
Spring Valley, California (San Diego area)
'84-245 200K+
'84-245T 190K+
'88-240 190K+
'01 Jeep Wrangler Sahara 10K
www.volvo2.homestead.com (new window)

Hey Dave,
I have visited your site a number of times, but hadn't acutally noticed those pictures yet. How did you make the grill? What did you make it from ? Are the headlights and structure the same as pre-flat hood?

Thanks for the pics..I like the look, and may work that into my plans.

-Phil

You'll get marginally better results from a 242 grille circa '79-'80 that has the shorter slash & logo. Since it doesn't run from corner to corner, it's not cut with the grille, and it results in a nearly perfect match to the '83 242ti grille, except for the color. I think the one Dave shows was used on '75-'78 cars...the ones with the old body style. I'm not certain of this, but it's the best theory I could piece together from my old 240 brochures.

The grill is featured with a brief how to on

http://www.homestead.com/volvo2/grill.html

Headlights were (the car was parted out) H-2/H-4 replacements but went in the same buckets that the original sealed beam lights were in. The light surrounds were from an early 4 rectangular light DL, they did not have the reflector under the lamps, I like the blacked out effect. The current 245Ti used a cut down grill from an '80 240DL with all chrome removed and the fins have been filled so the whole thing is smooth.

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Dave Shannon
Spring Valley, California (San Diego area)
'84-245 200K+
'84-245T 190K+
'88-240 190K+
'01 Jeep Wrangler Sahara 10K
www.volvo2.homestead.com (new window)