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strange modifications?
« on: March 06, 2014, 03:08:19 PM »
In my mind there's a few things that make my jaw drop when I see a car.  I'm in love with louvers, 80's tech, t tops, and other things.
So while I was looking at cars a while back, I had a strange idea, that I doubt will ever cross my mind as a serious option.  But I was thinking how an eagle (sx4) would look with t tops.  I've gone through the idea time and time again, always concluding it would look silly, but It still pops up. 
I'm not asking your opinion on if I should do it, but if anyone has had any wacky ideas on eagle modifications.  Just something that came into your mind, that would just looks ridiculous but you still want to know if it would work.

I figured this should go in altered eagles, for the modification part, but I may be wrong.

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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2014, 03:46:44 PM »
In my mind there's a few things that make my jaw drop when I see a car.  I'm in love with louvers, 80's tech, t tops, and other things.
So while I was looking at cars a while back, I had a strange idea, that I doubt will ever cross my mind as a serious option.  But I was thinking how an eagle (sx4) would look with t tops.  I've gone through the idea time and time again, always concluding it would look silly, but It still pops up. 
I'm not asking your opinion on if I should do it, but if anyone has had any wacky ideas on eagle modifications.  Just something that came into your mind, that would just looks ridiculous but you still want to know if it would work.

I figured this should go in altered eagles, for the modification part, but I may be wrong.

Sundancer  I believe had something like that..
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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2014, 03:50:16 PM »
well that was a full targa, if I'm correct.  I mean full on t tops. 
While on the topic of sundancers, were they altered after the assembly line?  wasn't it like a comapny bought them and changed them into sundancers?

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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2014, 04:17:30 PM »
I think T-tops would be awesome on an SX4.  I have owned a couple cars with t-tops in the past ('84 firebird, '88 pulsar) and always loved using them.

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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2014, 05:05:59 PM »
I know some wagon owners and Sedan owners have gotten rid of the rear quarter/opera windows by welding them smooth. That's kind of a strange modification.
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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2014, 05:18:41 PM »
Seems to me that would cause some kind of blind spot! Maybe not!
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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2014, 05:24:35 PM »
Ugh, I hate blind spots.  My mother had a Chevy traverse, and I tell her that it's a nice car, it just needs some windows.  tiny rear window, long body, and pillars so thick you could support a skyscraper with them.  Complete design flaw.  I hate driving that thing.  (I had to learn with that Piece of crap)

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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2014, 05:42:49 PM »
When I brought my new coupe home, my son suggested we should modify the back end to make it a fastback style, like a 60's mustang.  Not a bad idea, but I won't be trying it out on this coupe!
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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2014, 06:16:49 PM »
haha, I'd be interested in seeing that.  I'd be very hesitant to try any modifications like that, unless it was a junker that was free.  And even then I'd be scared.

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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2014, 07:12:05 PM »
How about this one. Someone just posted the CL ad for this on Facebook. I kind of dig the roof lights like a semi or big work truck.

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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2014, 07:32:47 PM »
We discussed this way, way back in the early Nest days.  The consensus was the Targa band reinforcing the top would have to be so wide that it would mean taking out the back windows.  The Sundancer, besides having reinforcement within the Targa band also had a modified upper wind shield frame with a strengthening cross support.
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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2014, 08:39:12 PM »
One of my favorite things about my wagon is ZERO blind spots , makes me appreciate it when I drive something that has them.
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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2014, 09:19:09 PM »
I bet the Kammback feel like it's all windows! :)
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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2014, 10:51:11 PM »
Kammeback doesn't have anything on the pacer, I'd suspect.  That's gotta be a car you don't want to drive around in without a shirt in the middle of a heat wave!

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Re: strange modifications?
« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2014, 06:50:59 AM »

         HI       This has nothing to do with T tops but I have ben knocking this idea around for a while ...I love the 1977 hornet hatchback and I all ways   wanted to take a hornet and a eagle wagon and make an SX/6......the wagon and hatchback floor pan are the same ....cut the hump out of the wagon and put it in the hatchback  .....then start changing every thing over from the wagon to the new SX/6....we have a SX/4 ....so I said the larger hatchback could be the SX/6  .......This is my wired idea .....I have the two cars .but I don't have the MONEY to make it happen ...if I had the money to do it you could see it from start to end .............don 
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