What's up guys! My first car was a 81 240 wagon and looking to get another one to restore. I really like the single round headlight front end from the late 70's and I am wondering if all year wagons in the 80's would still be able to swap to the single headlight.. Any help info would be great! Oh!, also do I need to find used bezels/headlight buckets or do they still offer them somewhere new?

Thanks guys!

 

the single round 240's are really rare nowdays, we're talking 40 year old cars. and none of that stuff is available new.

IIRC, those single rounds were 'flat hoods', and pretty much all later US cars were the long nose version (which originally was the hood from the 260 and the 240 diesel). pretty sure the hood, fenders, grill, radiator support are all different on the 'long nose' cars. In Europe, those early cars had modular rectangular headlights, the round was a US DOT thing before we allowed modular headlights.
the fenders are different for all these different versions because the turn signal shape changed some.

here's a late 70s flathood euro car,


note the leading edge of the hood, it goes straight across without a 'nose' the middle...

here's a mid 80s euro long nose...



these are the ones that came with the dual rectangular sealed beams in the USA, at least until 1987 when they switched to the modular 'TV panel' headlights like my old one...


(1987 240GL, circa 2010 when my boy took it to college)







IMHO, the best 240s are the 89-93 with LH 2.4, and the later the better, a friend of my daughter's has a 93 "Special Edition" that has about every option in the book, with a 5-speed stick shift.