Tech Month: 11 tooth chrome grille for under $150

looks really nice, i know a guy who did the same thing to his 49 windsor.

 

Great job! Looks great.

 

Awesome!! That looks great!



BloodyKnuckles

 

You can narrow the bumper with paint (or a bandsaw)... looks good with the bumper and headlights

 

good work!

 

nice job good thinking. i have a few of those but there on my 54. billy

 

very kool!!!!!!!!!

 

that thing should see the car crusher. y would u want that?


lol just kidding billy!

 

hey matt maybe if you gave me cash and your merc i would trade you. billy

 

Wow, very thrifty. And uses VW parts so it should piss at least a few people off, lol.

 

The blacked out bar looks really good.

 

Hey Paul,

I thought that was you. I hope you are kidding that you did not recognize the car. BTW while you are vacationing at the river this weekend I will be block sanding and painting the car...But thanks for the idea of chopping the **cking thing, its only taken 4 months to get all those damn doors to line back up. JJ

Thanks for the help, and Curtis' car looks great! It's just that damn top...I really think it needs a 3-4 inch haircut.

 

That would be my buddy,DIRT! Fellow Village Idiot! Here's his car...

 

dig it. I was thinking about using VW guards myself at one point (used to be into VW pretty big) but went a different route. Wound up modifying a Dodge unit.

 

Odd number centers one of the teeth in the midle of the grille.

How many you use is determined by your taste and the size of the opening. When I did the one with the cross-bar I used 11, when I did the floating grille I used 13 because I think it looks better with more shine.

I don't think there is a "Right" answer. I used an equal amount of open space to chrome to start with and just adjusted from there. Just lay yours out and pick how many YOU think looks good.

 

killer tech! Thanks.

 

thanks for this writeup. found it in the archives and it was just what i needed for my van. i was going to try and do 51 ford f-1 bumper teeth the entire way across like the dixie deluxe merc but they are soooo pricey and they would have needed to be cut down a ton just to fit in the area i had to work with. i bought all the teeth, 15 altogether, for what one f-1 grille is going for on ebay. anybody thinking about doing one of these..... moores can get you as many teeth as you need and in fact i was told if you let them know what your doing you can get a bulk purchase discount. thanks again for the tech and the inspiration!

 

dig all these , thanks for the tip on the bulk discount!

 

Now this is what hot-rodding/kustomizing is all about.
Excersize your brain,not your wallet.