TUBE GRILLE on 72

[dmjlambert]

Originally Posted by Ironangel

After some close inspection of store bought billet grills that are WAY overpriced I decided to make my own. I used a 1/2" stainless steel thin wall tubing, 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" x 16 gauge stainless steel angle. It was quite simple to make actually, the hardest part was getting the center bend angle on all 8 pieces correct. I used 4 sticks of 10' thin wall stainless tubing and one 10' piece of angle. I fastened it in four places with 10-32 stainless screws. If I make another one I'd make the top and bottom tubes slightly longer to fill the contour of the headlight bezels. .23 stainless wire with Argon gas set very low on the welder... PS. Evenly spaced there's enough room to fit your hand to reach the hood latch.

What a good idea. I need to make a pair of those for my 1969 truck, since it has the big divider that says Chevrolet and has the turn signals.