I've been to a couple of shows and some a few cars with this grille, anyone know what it is? Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
46-47 olds . 48 olds dont have the center bar going straight down.... 400 bucks usually if you can find one.. 3k to replate eeeeek
Center bar is actually 3 separate pieces and I'd buy two or three grilles if they were driver quality for $400/ea. I finally got my grille a piece at a time at swap meets to get driver quality. The trouble with the grilles and some other 40s Olds chrome is they're poorly plated pot metal and get pitted just sitting outside. Poor plating was common just after WWII and through Korean war due to chrome shortage for the war effort. Manufacturers used the thinnest possible plating. Rechrome is labor intensive to drill and fill the pits when there are dozens if not a few hundred pits on a grille. They're scarce as chicken lips and snakes hips because every guy who customized a 46-48 Ford put in the Oldsmobile grille and they do look good on the front of a Ford coupe. I just wish they'd left some for real Olds projects like my 47 convertible.
Well I got my driver quality grill for 400 and have seen quite a few more for the same. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Just a little trivia. The purple car in top photo is the "Goony Bird" a well known show car built in Buffalo, N.Y. sometime in the mid fifties. Legend has it that the 51' Victoria roof was taken off a stolen car. Glad to see it's still looking good.
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