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Illuminated bow tie retrofit
I would like to share my latest little project, I finally found myself some Chevrolet hubcaps to fit my us mag wheels. After having them for a few weeks I started looking into options to make the hood mounted bow tie match my wheels (which are the textured gold bow tie). I stumbled across the gm illuminated bow tie for the 2018 silverados. It was somewhat of a pain because of the extreme contour the nose of the hood has, I ended up having to mold some plastic on the backside to get everything to fit right. Here are some photos.
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
hell i like it, it looks good
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
oh i forgot a Okie Sooner License plate would look better under it, vice the razorback
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
Haha, thank you
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
Looks good
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Does the emblem lite up? Are is that the reflection off the flash of the camera? I like it either way.
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
I like it. Is your truck a 69 or 70? I have a 70 and the inner grill looks a little different than yours.
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
Yes it is tied into the parking lights so it lights up whenever they are on. My truck is a 1970. There are a few differences/discrepancies between the 69/70 with both the inner and outer grilles. I have always read and heard that the painted inner grilles were only available on the 69 grilles but I have a bone stock 1970 that has the painted inner grille so I think it was just hit or miss.
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I’ve read a lot of threads on here about the differences and it seems there usually isn’t a unanimous decision either way so I’m not sure which is actually correct.
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
very cool & unique!! i think a lot of ppl may one day copy your idea....
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
X2, I'm sure that others will copy it.
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
I was wondering how had it would be to get a new "gold" bowtie on the front on the 71-72 grill. This looks good. I like the gold better than the blue since I'm going red.
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
I was a little hesitant at first simply because it was different than I’m used to I guess. I really like it though and I don’t think it’s something so different that it takes away from the good looks the truck was born with, and if I ever decide to go back, it takes about 5 minutes to switch out.
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Re: Illuminated bow tie retrofit
I have some bow ties from 17 silverado and camaros from swapping them out with the black ones. I'm curious now.
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