7tonemonte Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Anyone have good pics of the grille on a 71 and how it's supposed to look, as far as paintwork within the grille, what's black,gray, etc? I'd love to spend a little time and clean mine up and would like to get it back to the way it's supposed to look. Taking care of a few exterior details that have always bothered me, headlight bezels done, now on to the grille Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cny first gen 71 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I did mine in black instead of the original silver I like it but not original, not a great picture but all I got right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Tony, I've done abit of research and a bunch of hours spent redoing 2 71 grilles. The outside surface of the horizontal bars are chrome, the rest of the was Argent silver. The band around the grille has a black stripe, I went a step further and hand painted the vertical bars satin black like the stripe around the grille. from a few feet away you don't see the vertical bars, which looks pretty cool.....The wife snapped this shot of me painting with an artist brush, she thinks I'm way too anal about details! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cny first gen 71 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Yea I did same thing with band around, brushed it but I taped off the front of the fins and painted it satin black from the back side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangeba Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Fun with photoshop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbit Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I will post some pictures next week. I am picking up a NOS grille this weekend. Joe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black07ss Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I will post some pictures next week. I am picking up a NOS grille this weekend. Joe Dang!! Lucky you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbit Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Sorry guys no pictures of the NOS grille. I passed on it. There was some pitting on the chrome face and for what it cost I wasn't gonna settle. Sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monte70car Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 I saw a so called NOS 72 grille today at Carlisle they wanted $1,100 for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC-71 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Orbit. What was the asking price on that grille? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbit Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsorg Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 There was a 72 nos grille on eBay, 500, the other day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbit Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 70 and 72 seem to be easy error to find than a 71 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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