AAAAAAHHHHHHHGGGGG!!!!! Mike- your KILLING me!!!! You seem to have some hippy, voodoo thing going on where your reading my mind!!!! I'd L.O.V.E. to see a 'smoothed' replacement (in BLACK!)... the problem is your spending my money before I even have a chance

Thanks for the heads up on the disassembly... not worried about the wrenchin'- just haven't had a chance to spend time pulling the panel off to look around.
As I'm sure you will- KEEP ME POSTED.
:twothumbs

 

Damn SoCal, you got a big one! I kind of like it though because of the way it makes full use of the space.

 

Ya know, - I was hesistant to post a pic because in every one it looks bigger than in real life.

*(just what are we talking about here?)

 

I bought an OEM grill off ebay to do this MOD with.
I have to pay someone to do this as I don't know how or have the resourses to do it myself.
Having a fella "grind" off the grill bow tie. Then fill in with some special stuff I had to buy for him to 'fill in the gaps' to make the grill bars smooth. He's working on it this week. I was hoping to have it complete by the Cinco de Solvang run, but it wont be ready in time.

If this works out, I'd like to do the same with the rear lift gate bowtie also.
...and if it does work, of course I'll pass the details of what he all did to make it happen to ya'll.

 

I don't think there's anything to "grind" when it comes to the bowtie. Those bowties are glued on from what I understand. Just some dental floss should do ya' just fine I reckon at least for the front grill bowtie.

 

The grille is formed in the shape and size of the gold bowtie. The gold bowtie with the chrome border is the part thats taped on. I took mine apart after I cut it up.

 

The bowtie is comin' OFF..... not just the bowtie itself, the entire 'form' it sits in also. The 'fom' that the gold 'removable' bowties sits in is raised above the existing grill bar. Thats the reason for the molding to build back up the grill bar (less the bowtie) as that will be damaged in the process.

 

txsman2930 where did you get the script on your grill i think that would look great on mine?

 

www.fillingstation.com look for emblems and decals...just put mine on last night and yeh it looks awesome! (Thanks to Joe for the link!)

 

Thanks, I could find that exact one but I did find one I liked.



Its a 1940 truck grill decal.

They also have a couple others that I'm going to get.