Chuck65 had to chuckle at your response because I've pretty much been of the same mindset. I guess the only thing that has bugged me about the car are the quality of those strakes. I would either leave the black piece intact somehow or open up the area where it went. That opens up another can of worms as to what do you do to make it look nice vs. an open hole into your wheelwell. I think there has to be something "there" I've just never been convinced just what. Ben47's right he was the first I think to bring this up and photoshop what it would look like.
Pat

 

This is just 3 min. work playing around.... 2nd pic took abot 10 min.

 

just a little more playing around

 

it looks more like a sebring without the strakes, the little scoop looks cool though.

 

Function over form for me... so if i would do it, i would look into seeing if the area can be made a functional side vents and figure out what looks better, with strakes or not.


there's should be some totalled xfire out there that someone can punch through the panel to see what's on the other side.