05-24-2012, 11:37 PM | #1 |
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Show me your grill
I'm gonna start looking for a crew cab project truck, and the grills on the 73-91s seemed to have changed so much through the years I don't know which one I like the best, so lets see the pictures and list what year of grill it is (cause it might not be the year of your truck, right?).
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05-25-2012, 12:45 AM | #2 |
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I went with an aftermarket billet aluminum grill and mounted fog lights in the would-be factory location for turn signals in 4-headlight models. The face of the grill is polished and the rest is painted flat black.
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05-25-2012, 01:27 AM | #3 |
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This is a '73-'74 grille, however I have painted the inside portion black (which is not a factory scheme) and the horizontal bars are kept silver. The grille is installed on my '78.
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05-25-2012, 01:34 AM | #4 |
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81 grill and buckets Stage one: Billet grill with 85-87 buckets Stage two: Same as before but with buckets painted black After: 81 with a phantom grill |
05-25-2012, 01:44 AM | #5 |
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Grill looks really good! On another note... how old is that lisence plate??? I havent seen one of those in YEARS. You must have had that truck for a long time or its an old pic.
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05-25-2012, 02:01 AM | #6 |
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this is my driver, previous owner put this grille on, im not a fan off them, everyone and there brother has them on the f-series trucks in my town.
this is a 73-74 grille im trying to put on my 79 crew cab
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05-25-2012, 09:10 AM | #7 |
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Keep the pics coming 'cus I'm wanting to change out my '83 grill and I can't decide what I want....
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05-25-2012, 09:24 AM | #8 |
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I've seen a fairly nice diagram floating around on the forums that shows the front end changes by year for the 73-87's. I'll be damned if I can find it after searching. Maybe someone has it bookmarked or something and can post it. It does a fairly good job showing the differences in the front ends, grilles and lamp bezels through the years.
I'll keep looking.
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Quote:
Actually found a couple versions and a line drawing I had saved...
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That's it! I need to save it as well, I spent well over an hour searching for it.
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Very cool guys !
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05-25-2012, 11:43 AM | #12 |
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Billet grille from Summit.
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05-25-2012, 12:00 PM | #13 |
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Stock 1978
Aftermarket Billet
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Also the drawings shows all 77-79s with the intergrated headlight bezel/marker light which isn't right. |
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05-25-2012, 01:23 PM | #16 |
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Don't know the year of this Grill but its ugly...Sorry..Couldn't resist..Its Friday.
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I wanted to post a picture like this so badly
but i was like no stay with post lol nice pic |
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my 78
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05-25-2012, 07:48 PM | #25 |
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Never seen a grill like mine before, got holes for driving lights, I'm guessing the PO had some there cause the ground wire is still there but never had lights there.seen some illegal square ultra bright l.e.d lights for quads I might put in. Posted via Mobile Device
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