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Help with 67 Grille
Hello,
My 67 came originally with white bumpers, white grille, while headlight surrounds, etc. I am cleaning and polishing up the original paint (which I want to keep), and I have this vision of dressing the truck up a little. Not restoring it, just dressing it a little and having a nice driver. I want to add a little shiny to it -- bumpers, etc. Anyway, I pulled off the grill surrounds and much to my surprise, the inner pieces are riveted on, and are white. I suppose I thought that they would come off as well and be body color underneath, but that is obviously not the case. I wanted to put chrome surrounds on, but now I'm not sure what to do. Looking around I see that it probably should be body color on those inner pieces. BUT, I don't want to paint body color as it would be the only new paint on the truck. What about black? Could I get away with painting the inner pieces a satin black and then put the chrome grille surrounds on? Would it look ok? Hiccups like this sometimes make me want to just abandon things and stick with white, but I know I will be happy once it's done. So, let's see what kind of opinions you have, and maybe some pictures?? Adam |
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
Replying to my own thread, but I just saw a member's build thread where it looks like the inners are painted an aluminum/silver color. I like the looks of it. Let's add that to the list of possibilities too, though I don't want it to look too nice, it might feel out of place on this truck.
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
I should have included that!
It's light green. Same/similar color to the one shown above. Here is a picture: ![]() 2 by A.Bursell, on Flickr Here are the inner pieces I am talking about for reference (they are riveted on the truck!): ![]() Grille1 by A.Bursell, on Flickr Also, if I do paint them, I will have to decide whether to drill ou the rivets and paint off the truck or just mask and paint on the truck. Thoughts? Adam |
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
I suppose I could always leave them white too. Might not set the grille off as much, but maybe it would balance out with the white letters on the tailgate?
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
I would mask them and spray with aluminum color spray paint.
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
How about a charcol or cast iron color? Its not white or black and not silver. If you go silver which would look good too go with SILVER not aluminum.
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
I love that color. Yeah the white might still look good. I love on the Holley shop truck how it has a chrome bumper and it goes nicely with everything else white.
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
I like the way the silver/aluminum looks in the picture above but I would be a little nervous with silver/aluminum because I know there are some differences--some more metallic and some more gray. I really just want it to blend in. I don't want it to look like I did something to it. I would have to find the right color.
Black would be easy. Just a satin type black and it would be done. Does anyone think laying the new chrome trim on top of the white inserts would look out of place or awkward? I know I could just try it and see, but... Adam |
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
if your putting the trim chrome, then i would paint the grille inserts the same or close to the same color green. silver or an "aluminum" color woudlnt look right to me, ive had my truck black with a different color inside and its just not right...
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
You could ask the owner of the truck you posted for maybe more pics and details regarding the silver if you wanna go that route. I think black would look good too. I've seen trucks where the inner pieces are painted black even when that's not the body color and it looks good. If you're getting the chrome trim rings for sure you could always leave the white initially and see how it looks, but I think it might look funny without anything else being white up front.
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Re: Help with 67 Grille
I would use Krylon dull aluminum. It looks just like the color in the pic. Mask it off and paint. Then add the new pieces.
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