On a 70, which lines are NOT painted? Verticle or horizontal?
72 egg crate grill
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From: Mount Kisco NY
I should have made myself more clear. Mine have been painted all over and I want to remove the paint from the edges to expose the chrome as a few previous posters have apparently done. I'd like to see some closeps of what the "correctly" finished edges looks like along the paint/chrome boundary.
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I was hoping for a full resolution photo so that I could see the exact detail before I take a razor blade to it. I'll see if I can locate one nearby that I can inspect up close. Sorry to have troubled you.
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I'm sorry to be "difficult", but I can't imagine you needing a better close-up photo than the close-up shot of the eggcrate on the yellow car earlier in this thread. It's ONLY the outer edge of the crates....not the recesses behind the leading edge...not anything else. All else is painted. I'm not sure what we're missing -- or what you're missing. Hope you can figure it out.
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I looked at the grills on my 70 LT-1 with original paint. Vertical lines only were not painted. It looks like the factory did the same thing as this post said. I see paint which is irregular & not in a straight line if it were mask off. It would take too much time to do that at the factory.
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Mike (yellow 72) send me closeups and they make clear what you all are saying. Never having seen the correct version made it more difficult to visualize. A picture is indeed worth a thousand words.
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