better than new 1978 grille

[nerphin]

i couldn't come to terms of spending 300 plus on a new oem grille.

so, i did the next best thing. refurbished my original, cracked, faded, and ugly stock grille.

before (sorry no close up). you can see the missing "teeth", the whole upper left section was broken off, and the lame faded emblem was hideous:





i had a repro one that i was happy to hack up and frankenstein into the original:



you can see the new pieces that are silver:



put back together and ready for paint:



fresh outta the spray bomb booth:





with the new emblem:







still working on the front end a bit, so i don't have any of it back on the truck. yet...