Looks good to me Martin! The crappy light tan wood trim on those two finds is the concern, and like many have said pretty much translates to adding stickers to the interior
I certainly would not install one on any vehicle I own today. These kits were among a plethora of tacky add ons ( ground effects, hood bras, etc ) that were popular at the time these cars were still considered new.
Nope that’s not it, those are louvers
This is the GTS solarwing(I was calling it the wrong thing)
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The forum was irrationally into these when I joined way back when
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I always thought of bras as kind of cool. I was just concerned about their effect on the paint underneath with dust or sand getting caught.
Remember those rear window ventsades?
Nope that’s not it, those are louvers
This is the GTS solarwing(I was calling it the wrong thing)
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The forum was irrationally into these when I joined way back when
I had one of those that melted to a handful of CDs and ruined themI have one of those in my Red cougar, lol. It's had cd's in it for the last 14 years, in the sun.
Bets on whether they melted, or died in the interim?
I swear those Panasonic mini systems are the only CD changer and cassette combo units to have survived the ascent of digital music. I've been casually looking for something to replace my parents' much newer Sharp mini system with a CD changer that quit working, and the older Panasonic systems are everywhere for a reasonable price. The only things they're missing that the newer Sharp has are Bluetooth and USB, but a $20 Bluetooth 5+ aux adapter takes care of that and the USB isn't necessary.
The bird stock CD player as you know is very disagreeable and hates railroad tracksI didn’t have the visor storage in the cougar but I did have one of those zip up CD pouches I kept in the trunk (My Cougar had the factory 10 disc changer). I don’t really miss CDs honestly, it takes less time to “burn” an album on a usb drive or my smartphone than a CD and there’s no skipping, no micro scratches preventing a song or the whole cd from reading and I can add and subtract at my will.
Ironically while I obviously am into old cars music and and various other old crap as well as an interest in history, and think most new technology and entertainment today falls somewhere between shit and steaming shit, I’m really not nostalgic. Burned CDs for me always seemed like a disposable means to an end, which was simply to hear the music. Cassettes as a technology I have more fondness of, at least I could tape over those. I had at least a dozen burned CDs where a glitch happened during the burn where there’s be a weird skip or repeat that would force me to either Reburn a new disc and throw that one out or grin and bear it to the point when I hear “that song” now I instinctively hear the stupid glitch my burned CD had.
I still have a hard time listening to Weezer’s sweater song for this exact reason! The burned CD would just get into an infinite skip loop towards the end of the that song and I would have to be ready to skip to the next track.…grin and bear it to the point when I hear “that song” now I instinctively hear the stupid glitch my burned CD had.