Painted Grille Pics?
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I like the color-matched-to-body painted grill when it's a 78-79, and the ugly plastic center insert is replaced with something else. The '73-76 shell looks good silver to me. I'm knocking out the dings, using filler, and painting it w/ silver rim paint. doesn't look that bad. I painted the rear bumper with it. Good stuff. The inserts on the 73-76 look good black or silver.
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I'm not a big fan of the blacked out grille inserts but to each their own, i like the look of the factory argent grey, but wether it's grey, black or chrome the 73-77 grilles look better than the cheesy 78-79 egg crate grilles IMHO.
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my avatar is a good shot of my 76 with the grille painted black. the old one had met a t-post in a not nice way with the P.O. so its all new metal and inserts after i painted em black.
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I like them painted black also, but other than the pic in LMC, i want to see a 73'-77' with one of the billet grilles installed. I dont think I will use one, but I have been looking for a pic with one installed to make up my mind, but still havnt run across anybody with one in.
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I like them painted black also, but other than the pic in LMC, i want to see a 73'-77' with one of the billet grilles installed. I dont think I will use one, but I have been looking for a pic with one installed to make up my mind, but still havnt run across anybody with one in.
...78-79 grille shell!
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From: Wingo, Ky
Well I bit the bullet and took the inserts out today and painted them black. I am very happy that I did. I thought it looked mean before, now it really does. I screwed up and got semi-gloss black paint, oh well I guess that will be a good base for when I go back over it with gloss black.
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Interesting. Post pics if you can.
I just got an idea. The grill inserts are so cheap you could always keep a stock pair, a black pair or a 73-75 pair and a 76-77 pair of either or both colors and just swap them out every now and they for a different look.
I just got an idea. The grill inserts are so cheap you could always keep a stock pair, a black pair or a 73-75 pair and a 76-77 pair of either or both colors and just swap them out every now and they for a different look.
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From: Wingo, Ky
Its already dark here but I did take a pic earlier while there was some light left with my phone. Right now I cant get it to send to the computer, dang technology, lol.