Body kits yes/no/maybe

[Odd]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> I love the smoked effect on the rear lights. How was that done? perhaps there is an off the shelf aerosol you can get. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> I think it was an aerosol intended for exactly that purpose, applied by the PO
- and both dad and I hated it! Makes the car far to stealthy for modern traffic!
He was close to rear ended on several occasions due to people didn't notice his brake lights in daylight.
So we've gotten rid of those and fitted ordinary red and white rear light lenses (with my super bright
clear/amber LED bulbs for direction indicators...) while a still upcoming project is to try to 'clean' the lenses
on the fog lights...

[paul w]

I know i'll 'rub you all up the wrong way'again,but i have got just
such a rattle can of smoke black to darken the 'monsters'eyes.I got
the idea from Steve and simon at S&S at last years national, off their
yellow v8 -

The cruise lights will need to be split so i can apply the paint on
the inside.I like the 'Stealth'mode,think it will look good with the
v8's dark hue.

See ya. Paul

[busheytrader]

Sounds good Paul.

We've had a MkIII Golf Gti for 11 years now with OEM smoked rear lights. As the car's black they really suit it. Like ours many VW's and Audis had these factory fitted back in the 90's.

I'd be careful not to overdo the smoking though. On a bright summer's day, the brake lights don't stand out as much as I'd like in direct sunshine.

Adam

[Odd]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> I'd be careful not to overdo the smoking though.
On a bright summer's day, the brake lights don't stand out as much as I'd like in direct sunshine. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
<u>Exactly</u> our experience - so we got rid of them.
(Anyone wanting a pair of pre-smoked pre-owned rear light lenses? I'm willing to exchange for
a pair of ordinary ones... Just kidding - I had to saw cut some of the fitting screws/nuts to get them off...[:(] )

[Mowog73]

I showed my step-son the body kits in the Rimmer Bros catalogue last night. Neither of use cared for the Mk 2 kit (with the ribbing), but both thought that the Mk 3 kit was quite nice. So that's two yeses to body kits in general from young and ...medium (not old) alike.

Mark

1973 MGBGT, 1976 TR7, 1980 Spitfire 1500

[jclay (RIP 2018)]

Since I have a Mark II kit in the shed, I think I will go ahead and use it.

jclay

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[rocky_679]

cheers thats helped me i think tho not my bank ballance shall hav to raid piggy bank[:D]

stephen j dark

[mak]

Think the best 2 things you can do are the rally front spoilers (without the side vents) and the xjs style b posts on Grinnal FHC's - think the car looks pretty good as it is and most other additions don't seem to 'fit'

(though black door handles and windscreen surrounds look really good imho..)

[swifty]

Not sure what kit is on mine (I think the bodykit on mine is a TRIUMPHTUNE one)but I do quite like it, it was one of the things that sold the car to me

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[Craig C]

I have been mentally refing my idea of the perfect bodykit for a few years now. My plans for my FHC:

Work in front fender flares from a VE Commodore (to cover 235/40/18 tyres which I have already collected).
Fibreglass flares on the rear similar to those of a VE Commodore ute (blended bubble style) but bigger (to cover 275/30/20 tyres, of which I have collected one).
Front bar very similar to Lancia Stratos or 1973 Corvette (I have a fibreglass ’73 Vette bar; can’t find a front section of a Stratos replica, which would be my preferred).
Rear bar based on Z32 300zx item (which I have).
Short sail panel (incorporating area currently covered by “grilleâ€￾; air extraction duties taken care of by shark-gill louvres) that follows the contour line on the FHC(that currently terminates rather ubruptly) onto rear deck panel terminating at edge of rear deck i.e. start of boot-lid).
Louvres for rear window contoured to fit sail panel (a la Stratos).

And possibly:

Fixed lights with double-humped plexiglass cover blended into front panel
Bonnet with two large extraction vents at front of bonnet to vent hot air from radiator

This I will get to (along with the EPAS (I have both Corsa C and MGTF systems), fast ratio steering pinion (I got the last one from S&S a year or three ago), AC compressor (Sanden SD7 new in box), SD1 strut (bought NOS from Rimmers)/aluminium hub (haven’t got the Wilwood hubs yet but with the exchange rate with US this morning I may order them today!)/PCD conversion, GT30 turbo (actually a Nissan version from a VQ30DET), Rangie fuel injection system (all blasted, powdercoated, cleaned injectors etc) etc etc) when my wife allows me to stop working on the house I am building…which is three stories and over 500 square metres and taking forever as I am owner-building.

So: if anyone is good with Photoshop and feels like taking on my ideas as a project you would get an idea of what it will look like a few year earlier than the reality! And if you think it will look naff, that’s ok, this is my vision (this being a pre-emptive strike on all those who think 13 inch wheels were the pinnacle of automotive development[;)]). And yes, unusually for someone who is 191cm tall, I think short and stubby (as my concept would look) is great!

Let the flaming begin!

Craig
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[Mike T]

Not really a kit, a one off special I believe for LeMans with Janspeed

I took the pic at the Triumph day at Gaydon





I thinks that's one S from S&S in the background