70 Grill Resto?
Burning Brakes
Joined: Oct 2009
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Your center grill sounds like it's exactly as it left the factory. It was as dull, charcoal black color from the start. I have an 'original' that I found at a flea-market, and the one from my '71 that looked just the same.
If you want it to look like factory-new, I'd recommend that you just wash it and reinstall. If you think it needs new paint (I wouldn't, if it's not chipped/dinged up), find a "flat" paint color that is not quite black...a dark charcoal, perhaps. I've not looked for that color, so I don't know what to recommend--but it's not BLACK.
When I worked on the one from my car, it got painted the same color as the side grilles (cast iron color), then used a detail brush to paint a 'chrome' color on the front edges. My center grille was then extended about 4" out so that it looks like one full grille set.
If you want it to look like factory-new, I'd recommend that you just wash it and reinstall. If you think it needs new paint (I wouldn't, if it's not chipped/dinged up), find a "flat" paint color that is not quite black...a dark charcoal, perhaps. I've not looked for that color, so I don't know what to recommend--but it's not BLACK.
When I worked on the one from my car, it got painted the same color as the side grilles (cast iron color), then used a detail brush to paint a 'chrome' color on the front edges. My center grille was then extended about 4" out so that it looks like one full grille set.
How did it come out?
Thanks
