A buddy of mine left me a 32 Ford grille shell awhile back. He wants me to make up a horizontal bar grille for it. I could use some inspiration, maybe some pictures too.............any help greatly appreciated.
In one of the old "little books", Rod & Custom I think, is the full article on the horizontal bar 32 Ford grille insert.
Check out the giveaway car for the Street Rod Nats. I think Vindettaautofab on here made the grill for it. Very nice piece!!!
A pic of horizontal grille bars in a Deuce shell should be enough to inspire your friend to install a stock Deuce insert. JH
I did this on a rod that I started to build away back in 65 or 66. The rod never got finished due to lack of skills and money, but I did have the 32 grillshell modified with horizontal bars. They were V'eed, with a slight peak in the center and were welded to the inside rear lip of the shell.---Brian
Dare to be different a `32 5W called " The flamer"owned by George Sein had horizontal grille bars . The work was performed by Barris , and several "How-to" stories in the 1957 Hot Rod annual are from the Barris shop when they worked on "the flamer" ( 5 pgs on the grille ) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=195888 Klaz
Barris did this to a Deuce? See, even further proof that I'm right. I'd reference my post on Barris but it got locked, pulled, & tossed in an Internet Black Hole. JH
Also...Big Deuce, the Monogram model and a real car built to promote it, and similar treatment in similar grill on the '34 truck AMT model...both treatments way too heavy, IMHO. I think it could be done nicely...look at circa '32-3 Pontiac and Desoto treatments. What I would imagine would be numeous thin bars, perhaps exactly same stock as regular deuce grill, V'd into a center chrome strip...
There's a whole series of Barris tech articles inflicted on a deuce...none of them would enhance your opinions...short on taste, workmanship could be described as "sudden"...
Harrison & Bruce ... I agree The work done is not all that great , but it gives olddaddy some ideas , and the Hot Rod annual have some fine cars featured . Welding rod used as grille bars .... ? Not sure how carefull he was when he hammerd`those grille bars . Klaz
Larry Hook did the only one I have ever seen that was good looking. It was in his black 3 window. Featured in the orriginal American Rodder back in the late '80s or early '90s.
Heres the giveaway car grille.... horizontal tube... tube was actually bent by another shop, before I got it, not a very good job, but I salvaged it, cut, fit trimmed, capped, made end trim, fixtured assembled and polished. I have a horizontal bar one in the process now.
I think the horizontal bars look good on a late 50's-early 60's build..... This green Model A rules with one...... http://imperialcustoms.com/car.gallery_11June.html And the Tognotti coupe has a neat insert too.....
here are my two wish I could post bigger certain attention centered hambers COULD have taught me how BUT they were more inclined to mimic cars built in the early sixties than appreciate the ones that were
Look for some pix of Greg Sharp's black Model A roadster pick-up. It was at the 50th GNRS if there are shots of that show available somewhere. Roo
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