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New Aero Kit Photoshoot

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Coupid

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A few weeks ago I went to the junkyard with my infiniti g20 driving friend. As I was pulling part of an alternator belt tensioner thingy, he asked me what this "ugly" trunk spoiler was doing on this 760. It sounded strange so I dropped my tools and came over to where he was standing. The car he was looking at had a complete aero kit on it.

Obviously I had to have it so we took an hour or so trying to remove it with our limited tools.

It had damage on all four corners but it was nothing a little bondo wouldn't fix.

I spent a few hours with my dad sanding it down and filling in the cracks. I have before pictures but who wants to see that and they are on my dads camera.

Today I had enough time to finish painting it fix my exhaust so it works with the new rear bumper and then even take some pictures:

My favorite of the day


Here is a close up of the front


Back


Entire car from front


Then i remembered that front plates suck


You can see the powerstroke kinda peeking out in this one






I won't be using the spoiler anyone interested in it?
 
At first I was all about body matching the paint but the flat black is really growing on me. I need to black out the rest of the trim since the car started life as a GLE. If I wanted to take the blackness to the next level I'd powdercoat the wheels and throw on my flat black aluminum hood... I think that might be overkill though haha
 
lol i read the title as photoshop. i was thinking for the longest time... " DANG he's good at photoshop..that kit looks real!"


but that kit does look awesome..wish i was lucky enough to find one...

how much was it?
 
86volvo740gle said:
At first I was all about body matching the paint but the flat black is really growing on me. I need to black out the rest of the trim since the car started life as a GLE. If I wanted to take the blackness to the next level I'd powdercoat the wheels and throw on my flat black aluminum hood... I think that might be overkill though haha
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+1 keep it black
eamonn (hockey930) has the Aero Kit on his 760 and is thinkin about keepin it body matched (same color as your car) and I keep thinking that it will look too 80s
 
RvolvoR said:
+1 keep it black
eamonn (hockey930) has the Aero Kit on his 760 and is thinkin about keepin it body matched (same color as your car) and I keep thinking that it will look too 80s
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Yeah, I had flat black and body color. I know Eamonns kit all too well, and he got lucky since his never had paint on it [I found it brand new not too far from him, since it was new it had a nice smooth finish]. Black looks great when the base material is perfect. I still like black.

I have the kit body color on my 88 745T [was black previously], had another kit in black on my old 89 745T.

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w/black bumper cover and bad paint

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to each their own. FLAT black is not something I would ever do again, I would do a satin.
 
Very Nice. Glad to hear you spent some time with your father.
My dad was the one who got me into Volvo (he's from Sweden and has had about
15) I spent some time with a few weeks back putting back in my 15G the whole time he just shook his head.
 
86volvo740gle said:
I scraped up on of the side skirts so I think I might take your advice and try the satin black this time.
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I was referring to satin because it is wash friendly, and will not allow lint, dust, etc to stay on the surface like flat black allows. Satin will not have the constantly dusty appearance from daily driving.
 
nice find man! I would keep the rear spoiler and make the car complete, you don't find that kit in good condition and from what I can see in your pics that kit seems to be pretty straight. Sport around in the 2 tone ....... it actually doesn't look bad with the color of the car. Once again nice find! :cool:



g@ttigang
 
The only thing that looks off to me is the block between the brake lights. You should get the later brake lights that match the center piece...
I have that same center block, I almost put it on an 89 once, but it didn't match, now it's on a 91 and looks super clean. No aero kit, but the SE kit/spoiler will do for me. ;-)

Did you get it all for a good price?
 
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