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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 08:11 PM
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i am sorry, but that is just not my favorite thing to see,
but it takes ingenuity, props for skill and engineering.
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 08:13 PM
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Someone had entirely too much free time......
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 08:14 PM
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NO, the worst mod is the CF stickers for your gas lid.
That one may be "ugly" but it certainly took some skill - putting all that leverage on the front quarter without the thing imploding is amazing, if not my cup of tea.

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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 08:25 PM
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Not too great for an everyday car but I think it's kinda cool. After all show cars are supposed to be about bing different.
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 09:31 PM
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That's very fugly.....

I still think curtains in an xB is a worst mod.
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 11:00 PM
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and i just noticed,its only on one side
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 11:03 PM
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uhhh... wherza backdoors?
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 11:07 PM
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The backs are part of the fronts.
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 11:13 PM
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oh my.

that was kinda like "where's waldo". no points for me.
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 11:28 PM
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You can't even tell how the heck they are supposed to latch. Can you imagine what it would sound like to slam those puppies. BAM!!!

Very strange indeed and very impractical. The best door arangement would be to reverse lambo the rears and suicide the fronts.
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 11:34 PM
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Wow! I just realized that you guys were talking about the doors! I was thinking you guys meant the hood! Yeah the doors are a very interesting mob indeed!
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 11:39 PM
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im speechless
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 11:45 PM
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...and just for laughs - you would think that anyone going to THAT much trouble would have removed the tire pressure sticker from the dirver's doorjamb, and the silly stickers underneath the hood...

that said, I still give props to that. quite an endeavor.
Old Mar 12, 2006 | 11:48 PM
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what would be funny is if all the rest of the body/fenders latched off but the doors stayed where they were.
Old Mar 13, 2006 | 12:00 AM
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big_birds right the pass sides just a lambo on the front, not like the drivers side, i've got the lambo doors on my xB, my head hurt lining the doors up, but gezzzzz lining it up with the back welded to it???, OMG, props to the guys that took that job! kind of dig the hood............
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Next he will have to mod the hatch door to swing open from the side...Hmmm
Old Mar 13, 2006 | 12:34 AM
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Next he will have to mod the hatch door to swing open from the side...Hmmm
Or split them and let the top go up and the bottom go down like a Jimmy
Old Mar 13, 2006 | 01:08 AM
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Or even split side to side...a lot of work but he did the double door lambo he could do the hatch mod.
Old Mar 13, 2006 | 02:00 AM
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has anyone sucessfully done a swing-away or jimmy hatch mod?
Old Mar 13, 2006 | 02:06 AM
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damn, he could have at least shaved the door handles...



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