Good morning all. My son has been fascinated with the 240 and wanted one for a daily driver. This would be his second car (his first one was totaled unfortunately). After an exhaustive search, we found an 88 244 with low original miles (26k).





There are a few paint issues, minimal rust, and an overpowering smell of moth *****. The kids spent 2 hours on the wheels alone, and I think I'm going to need to blast the hubs.

We have a list of items to get done in the near term: and I will probably create the car's own "build thread" if you will.

Anyway, hello from NH!

 

I'd plan on replacing those yellowed headlights, I believe Depo still makes replacements for these, that use better plastic that won't yellow with UV exposure and they aren't that expensive.

our 240, I put some very nice quality 4.5" 2-way Rockford speakers in the factory front door mounts, and some quite good 6.5" coaxials in the rear.... I put bass blocker caps in series with the 4.5" fronts and the overall sound coming out of a Pioneer deck with 4x50W internal amplification was quite good. the 6.5 oversized rounds in the back (which had seperate crossovers) kicked it hard, so there was no real need for a subwoofer unless you want to promote hearing damage.

btw, if I did that again, I would use separates in the rear rather than coaxial, beach sand found its way into the coaxials and got between the tweeter post and the woofer cones a couple times (dogs, beaches, my then teenaged daughter and a volvo, HAH!)

if you do go with component speakers, I've found its important to mount the tweeters quite close to the woofers, or the sound gets 'disconnected'.