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No wood trim for 240s anymore? Where was this? Did you try SAM? I have heard that their interior fake trim ("wood" look/"carbon" look/"aluminum" look) is quite crappy, but it should be available. There's also that place, something like Joshuawood.com that says they will make trims for 240, but the prices are sky high!
I have been playing with the idea of taking off the black trim strips from the dashboard, and laying carbon fiber fabric onto it, put on a clear coat, and reinstall them. If done right, I think that would really look nice! Shouldn't be too hard either. Maybe some day I will.
One option that I would love to achieve would be to nab the wood trim pieces from a 240 classic. Maybe you can buy them from the dealer, but they would probably cost a ton. I was at a yard once, looking around for Classics, and I found one, and I found one of the wood dash trims. YEAH! Except it had been sitting there on the floor of the car, it was faded, the finish was flaking, and the wood was dry and splitting. Did you know those parts are solid wood parts? No veneer. No plastic back.
Other options: Go find someplace selling a 240 classic, take it for a test drive, swap out the trims with your plastic ones, and hope no one notices! Why am I even saying this, I hope no one tries it! :)
Here's another way to go: paint the dash trims with silver paint. You need the right kind so you can get the proper metallic look. Richard posted here a long time back about his experiences with this, and I think the pictures look pretty good. He recommended Duplicolor "GM silver" and said it was holding up pretty well. I'll try to include a pic that he posted. If I were to do this, I would just paint the trim strip.
About the Momo steering wheel hubs, in the past, I have not had any problems locating them. I bought 2 from mail order places, and every once in a while they pop up on Ebay. They will fit with no modifications. I think the Momo 350mm wheels are about the same size as the 240 turbo steering wheels. (Also the same as 86-89 240 steering wheels) Won't block the view of the gauges.
Oh, 'nuther thing about the momo hubs, I don't think it's so much that they aren't produced anymore, but they only get produced in batches, so momo won't make any until they get enough orders from distributors. You can imagine how low demand would be for the 240. The last hub I ordered, I did have to wait about a week, because I was told the distributor was waiting for a shipment from Momo. So I guess they still do make them.
Greg
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