POST your-1997-1998 Grille Pictures!

[BobTheTrucker]

I'm looking for grille - lights -hood ideas for my 1998!
Could you guys post pictures? It would help a lot!
I'm not looking to copy your truck but would
like ideas from one and another and another.
I'm wanting to make it look newer and costum!
thanks!

[JWall]

Factory grille with billet insert, billet bowtie, Distinctive Brand fog light & billet grille bumper, all clear lenses



Factory grille with billet insert, sport bowtie, smooth bumper & all clear lenses (been changed to all TYC lenses since pic)

[ChevLoRay]

1995-98's are the same. Here's my '96 GMC...just in case you run across one at a price you can't refuse. Oh, you can always put a Bowtie on the billet and still claim you have a Chevy.

[4ofakind]

Not mine but I love these two examples. Are they still available some where or have they gone the way of the dinosaurs?

Mal

[BIG MAC]

I can play! 93 W/T grill, Diesel bumper

[Restrorob]

There's just something about big red letters......

[1badgmc]

Originally Posted by ChevLoRay

1995-98's are the same.

'94-'98 actually.

This was my '91 with an updated GMC grille and 30-bar billet insert, both in the old and current colors...





My old '99 Yukon also with a 30-bar billet insert...




This was a friend's truck. The truck was a '92 Chevy with an updated GMC grille, billet insert with a bowtie and shaved sidemarkers. I honestly never cared for the bowtie in the grille and it always drove me nuts that it wasn't quite centered.




Here's my '98 Suburban for now. Nothing more than swapping out the stock headlights and parking lights for some clear TYC Elegante pieces. In the future it will get a GMC grille and probably a black billet insert.




But who says it has to be the '94-'98 grille you replace it with? You could always back-date to the '88-'93 style grille if you really wanted to. It's not unheard of and the older grilles do have possibilities.

This is a friend's '92 with phantom billet inserts...

[ChevLoRay]

Thanks, 1badgmc...I had an interior motive....

[1badgmc]

Originally Posted by ChevLoRay

Thanks, 1badgmc...I had an interior motive....

hehe...It's an easy mistake. '95-'95 was 16-17 years ago now. A lot of folks forget that the trucks got new grilles a year before the interiors.

[4ofakind]

Anyone know where to get the grilles in post #4?

Mal

[JWall]

Originally Posted by 4ofakind

Anyone know where to get the grilles in post #4?

http://www.stylintrucks.com/parts/sp...00057_406.aspx

[4ofakind]

Thanks J Wall. I was looking for the whole grille shell. I did not know they were inserts.

Mal

[red94chev]

Hey 1badgmc, can we get some more pics of your 2 friends' trucks? I think Im speaking for us all.

[1badgmc]

Originally Posted by red94chev

Hey 1badgmc, can we get some more pics of your 2 friends' trucks? I think Im speaking for us all.

These are all old pics. The orange/silver truck has undergone a major makeover and is now orange/white with a killer custom dash. Unfortunately, my friend no longer owns it and I never had a chance to get pics of it before he sold it.






The yellow truck has gone through a couple different sets of wheels since these pics. It has 20s on it now. He's also made some very minor changes to the interior.








You'll probably be curious about the lime green truck in the background too, so I'll address that one now. Another friend's truck; he had pretty much finally gotten the truck to a point where he was happy with it and then he sold it a couple months later. The next owner wrecked it and then parted it out. The poor thing has been whored out with parts and pieces of it showing up on several other trucks around the area. It's a shame.






A group shot from a Tailgate photoshoot. Unfortunately, we never got published.

[1ATony]

Great looking pics. All three of those trucks are pretty sweet.

[96twodoor]

@ 1BADGMC,

Wow that brings back some memeries, I grew up in Wichita Falls and remember seeing all these trucks around town and at shows. To be honest they are a big reason im still into trucks today.Thanks for the pics ,Sorry for being off topic , but i had to chime in.

[1badgmc]

Originally Posted by 96twodoor

@ 1BADGMC,

Wow that brings back some memeries, I grew up in Wichita Falls and remember seeing all these trucks around town and at shows. To be honest they are a big reason im still into trucks today.Thanks for the pics ,Sorry for being off topic , but i had to chime in.

Hey, that's cool. Did we ever meet?

It's a real shame that the lime green truck met the fate that it did, but my truck and the yellow truck both have pretty solid futures. I have no plans to ever get rid of mine. It's been a couple years now since I've seen the guy with the yellow truck (sad, since he lives a few blocks away in my neighborhood), but unless he's changed his attitude toward it, he has no plans to get rid of it either.

[96twodoor]

Originally Posted by 1badgmc

Hey, that's cool. Did we ever meet?

It's a real shame that the lime green truck met the fate that it did, but my truck and the yellow truck both have pretty solid futures. I have no plans to ever get rid of mine. It's been a couple years now since I've seen the guy with the yellow truck (sad, since he lives a few blocks away in my neighborhood), but unless he's changed his attitude toward it, he has no plans to get rid of it either.

No I don't think we ever met did but I did meet the guy with the yellow truck ( Kyle I think??) And the guy with Orange and silver truck( can't remember his name) .Back then I used to drive a red 88 gmc longbed lowered on stocks ,ill try and find pics of what it used to look like .itswas nothing special ,I actually ruined a perfectly gppd truck. I was only in high school then so I was really too broke to do anything. I remember that green truck getting parted out , I think I bought the front bag cups,lol
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[1badgmc]

Originally Posted by 96twodoor

No I don't think we ever met did but I did meet the guy with the yellow truck ( Kyle I think??)

Yep. Kyle.

And the guy with Orange and silver truck( can't remember his name) .

Brian was his name. Coincidentally, Brian was also the name of the green truck's owner.

Back then I used to drive a red 88 gmc longbed lowered on stocks ,ill try and find pics of what it used to look like .itswas nothing special ,I actually ruined a perfectly gppd truck. I was only in high school then so I was really too broke to do anything.

It might ring a bell if I see pics.

I remember that green truck getting parted out , I think I bought the front bag cups,lol

I wouldn't doubt it. Pieces of that truck went everywhere.

[96twodoor]

I found some old pics and put them on photobucket , Like I said I was stupid in high school and basically ruined a nice truck .(I still get flak from my dad over it)
This how is looked in high school (please excuse crappy pics they are all ive got of it from back then)

and this is it right before i sold it

[96twodoor]

oh and not to totally derail this thread ,plus note 94-98 grill and sealed beam conversion ,billet grill and bowtie (please note broken airdam).

[rustSpot]

Swapped over to GMC. Everything on the front end came from LMC

[texasfunk]

Mine.

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[1badgmc]

Originally Posted by 96twodoor

I found some old pics and put them on photobucket , Like I said I was stupid in high school and basically ruined a nice truck .(I still get flak from my dad over it)
This how is looked in high school (please excuse crappy pics they are all ive got of it from back then)

hmmm...Doesn't ring a bell.

[ArmyCraft]

My 90 with update billet grill bumper and 2" cowl hood