Grill Pictures

always have liked your car, and that is an original touch looks very good

 

The 'black out' really looks nice. Makes me ponder doing mine like that.

 

that, is hot. and that's all I need to say.

 

Very nice job indeed. I've always been a fan of this look. Here's a shot of mine that I did several years ago:

Sam

 

that is also hot, very good.

 

Both look MEAN. I like the blacked look also.

 

10/6/04

Nice to see a picture of my first Maverick again. I had a 76 4-Door Maroon Car with
AMX scoop which I used as my first driver education training car.

RVargas

Check my current Comet at DriversLicenseTraining.com.

 

I was having another look at this old post and it raised a couple of questions in my mind that I hoped you wouldn't mind answering.
One question was what did you use to fill in the cut out rectangle in the center of the grille? I understand that you used some of the material that you cut out in making the circular holes, but how did you hold it there? I presume you used some kind of glue, but so many adhesives don't stand up to the extremes of out door use. What product did you use and how is your grille holding up?
Finally, it looks like the spotlights you've installed have a black ring around them. Is that part of the lights as you bought them, or is that a ring you grafted around the holes you had cut in the grille? If you created this ring, what did you use?
Thanks a lot. I don't intend to copy your grille, but hope to craft up my iddea of a "Shelby Maverick grille", and planned to use the same cut and graft strategy that you've employed. I'd appreciate the opportunity to learn from your experiences. Thanks. John B

 

Hey John,

To fill in the rectangle: I reused only the pieces of the circles that I cut out. The plastic grill cuts real easy with sheet metal tin snips. When you graft it into the rectangle try to leave one side of the piece as whole as possible. You will have to use some imagination.

Glue: I don't remember the product name. It was a fast drying 2 part epoxy glue. It's holding up great. No problems at all.


The ring around the light is the bulb housing (not apart of the grill). The bulb and housing along with a mounting bracket comes assembled. I purchased the lights at a semi truck parts warehouse.


I can't stress enough: Measure twice cut once.




Ken

 

where did you get the front valence and the chin spoiler

 

I remember this thread from before, and I still like that grille. On the center section, it looks like you could probably take a broken Grabber grille and cut the center out of it all in one piece...might make it a little easier to make.

 

I was just informed how to find this thread, again, to show a friend of mine just how much effort is involved in customizing our cars. To demonstrate how many of our ideas need to be fabricated ourselves, and not just ordered out of a catalog. I would like to second the comment about the great craftsmanship and, again, about the creativity. Props.

Eric

 

Looks Great!!

 

Looks really good. Almost wish I saw this before I ordered the billet grill.

Now got me thinking about trying a set of smaller lights behind the billet grill...