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Looks good. How much did you cut of? and do you have any photo's of the work? Have you left the rear of the car alone? as the deon is much lower at the back as well. keep us posted
The front and the rear from the Deon always drop because it is moulded from the early Dino 206 GT which had this shape, with the 246 GT Pininfarina has corrected this...
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The rear is left alone. For some reason, the back of my car doesn't droop as much as some other cars I have seen. As for the front, There is an illustration for what I did, on the first page of this thread. The only pictures I have of this, are photos with a large glassed area on the top of the front wings.
Going back over this post I was looking at the photo's of side on dino's. The first JHClassic car (the blue one) looks almost correct at the front to a 206 from which it was ( allegedly ) moulded from.I know the original 206 was lower at the front and back than the later 246. Also I know the rear wheel arch was move to accommodate the lotus chassis. This also seems to have carried over into the replica dino body shells.
But then later bodies seem to have drooped more at the front. If you look carefully at the photo's of the more serious droop you'll notice it has also affected the shape of the wheel arch in no longer being round more of an ellipse shape.And the body swage line instead of being almost level points down towards the ground resulting in the bumpers looking wrong.
I seem to have been lucky with my shell has the nose is only about 8mm lower than it should be,but it still required about 8mm adding in length to the bonnet!!
