Custom grills

j-mac · Post by **j-mac** » November 17, 2006, 8:07 pm

I've seen El Polacko's grill... just wondering if anyone else has done/seen any other custom grills on a Slick. Or anyone have plans on doing something different?

... pictures would be cool too

Birddog63 · Post by **Birddog63** » November 17, 2006, 9:08 pm

I would like to find an un-restorable grille to modify, It's hard to play unless ya have the parts in front of you though.
Got an idea if I can find some honeycomb material like the 71 to 73 Mustangs had.

61ford · Post by **61ford** » November 17, 2006, 9:13 pm

someone had a blue 66 on ebay a few days ago with a galaxie grille.it was different but idk if it actually looked good

Comet · Post by **Comet** » November 17, 2006, 10:41 pm

I've got the parts, I just have to cut it down, re-wire for quad lights, and cut and chrome my original grill ring, but I'm putting a '61 Galaxie (from a Starliner, actually) grill in mine. See my avatar.

Comet · Post by **Comet** » November 17, 2006, 10:41 pm

61ford wrote:someone had a blue 66 on ebay a few days ago with a galaxie grille.it was different but idk if it actually looked good

I'd be interested in seeing that. Got a link? What year Galaxie?

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » November 18, 2006, 11:29 am

In my opinion, slick's don't usually look too good with modified grilles...however, I do like the quad headlight look like El Polacko's idea
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I would think that a Starliner grille would look just as good.

There was an unfinished '59 F100 for sale locally about 15 years ago that had a 68-ish T-bird grille sunk into the front end. You wouldn't think it, but that truck looked really cool with hideaway headlights!

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » November 18, 2006, 1:06 pm

i have a couple grilles i am going to experiment with.they are not worth fixing as is but i cant throw them away so i am going to play with them.

61ford · Post by **61ford** » November 18, 2006, 3:27 pm

i think its prolly ended by now i think it was prolly a week ago but ill go look

jva118 · Post by **jva118** » November 18, 2006, 6:49 pm

HERE IS A LINK TO THE TRUCK THAT WAS ON EBAY
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1966-390 ... dZViewItem

mikecarson · Post by **mikecarson** » November 18, 2006, 8:13 pm

Sorry, but I think that is one butt ugly grill!

Comet · Post by **Comet** » November 18, 2006, 11:56 pm

Thanks JVA. I like it! Although I think he needs to take off the badges if he's going to that level of custom and definetly lower it! Drop that thing about 5-6" and nose it and it would look great as a custom.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » November 19, 2006, 1:27 am

Glad you like it Comet, since that's what you are doing.

I can't say that's I'd take that over a stock grill of any year of slick tho

That T'bird grille on a fridge sounds intriguing.. I always like those years of T'birds. If I found one with suicide doors (at the right price) I would snap it up in a hurry

ABA · Post by **ABA** » November 19, 2006, 7:24 am

I could go for a grill like that one, looks pretty good
but I would have to put the turn signals under the headlights.
I think that would look much nicer.

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » November 19, 2006, 10:28 am

That's an interesting look. I can't say it's something I'd personally do, but I can appreciate the time it took to get it there. The main problem with a mod like that is it will only appeal to a select group of people, so it's gonna be harder to sell, IMO.

That one's going in my "automotive oddities" file, right next to things like this...although, I'll admit, this is just a tad worse.

Just sick-n-wrong, I tell ya.

MadMaxetc · Post by **MadMaxetc** » November 19, 2006, 3:32 pm

WTF!!

That last grill is just wrong!

The othe one on the blue truck isn't to my taste, but not bad.
I do agree that it needs to be droped, it might look better then.
I like how Elpolako did his, the way he kept the outer ring from the slick.

I would like to find a nice stock 63.

to each his own.

BigTim · Post by **BigTim** » November 19, 2006, 4:05 pm

The last pic looks like a morphed 70s Datsun from the front. Yuck!

six-two · Post by **six-two** » November 19, 2006, 10:21 pm

I'm thinking of using the grill material that is sometimes used on BBQ grilles for my 62. I'd just need to put the turn signals behind it and besides that I think it would be pretty easy. I guess this is the Texan in me applying the principles of barbequing to my truck. That honeycomb stuff would be cool too if available.

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Comet · Post by **Comet** » November 19, 2006, 10:30 pm

ABA wrote:I could go for a grill like that one, looks pretty good
but I would have to put the turn signals under the headlights.
I think that would look much nicer.

Yeah, I was going to add that too about the lights. I totally agree with ya.
That red thing is ummm-how do I say. Not my taste

Comet · Post by **Comet** » November 19, 2006, 10:33 pm

Slick Fan wrote:The main problem with a mod like that is it will only appeal to a select group of people, so it's gonna be harder to sell, IMO.

Not a problem at all, at least the way ElP did it and the way I'm doing mine. The stocker will swap right back in there. My original grill is hammered though, so I'm not keeping it.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » November 20, 2006, 12:49 am

As custom grilles go, that Chebby with the Camaro nose is just as appropriate as any of the others we have seen I think.
Those things, Ford or Chev, would not normally turn my head at a car show, that is to say I would pass by them unnoticed and uncommented. Stock grille would make me look more, I would say.

There are kind of two camps on this, the Barris sort of thing and the Foose sort of thing, I surmise. I guess I am more in the Foose camp.

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