Super Stock grille

Hey

How do you like my super stock grille? Me and my good friend Antoon (kudos!) worked on it the whole evening last tuesday. Thought it would be a much easier job to do but it turned out to be a tough. It comes down to grinding, cutting, fitting, bending, grinding, cutting, fitting, bending...and so on. It's so awesome looking and makes the car even more evil...it almost looks "factory"...

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa185/PostMan_NL/coronet/DSC02138.jpg
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Looks good. Wanna answer my question before I ask it? lol

Yes i'm going to paint the radiator support flat black...

lol...wrong question

I was going to ask about more "crown" on the inserts than the rest of the grill

Great Job ! Looks just like the factory car pictures I sent you !

pretty.

Yeah, what 69 runner said.....

lol...wrong question

I was going to ask about more "crown" on the inserts than the rest of the grill

Appears the crown is the correct 'look'.
Looks good, I dig it!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/TMP67/Lilly65.jpg

The more crown on the inserts is correct i'm afraid. Back in the days, super stock grilles wheren't for sale. They where "made" by the people on the racetrack. To lose weight and not lose the stock look, they used pieces of the centersection. This is tapered to both ends so to make it fit, you have to bend the inserts which causes the "wrong" crown...If you look at it from nearby, you can tell it's...well...not factory. LOL

@rlpagan: yes, i used those as reference! Thanks!

Aaah....After giving my question some thought, that was the answer (read GUESS) that I came up with.

Make ya nervous bending those pieces to fit?

Well, bending those pieces didn't...cutting up some pretty nice headlight bezels did. Once you do that, there's no going back...I hesitated before we cut them (actually, it was on my mind for like two weeks or so...hahaha).

The crown?must be something special to 65s my 64 is flat-and the factory Hemi's were single headheads,max wedges were Dbl headlight,mine is a 64 330-Dodge.
I like the single headlight look one way or other!!!
Bill

Yes...the crown. Or peak if you prefer. Notice the ribs in the grill all have a peak (or crown), but the pieces made to replace the inboard half of the headlight bezel has to be bent more sharply because the ribs are to long in that position of the grill.

And you're incorrect. Not all of the 64 (Plymouth) Hemi cars were single headlight cars. The aluminum front end cars were. But the steel front end "nascar" cars had quad.

Yes the Alu front end cars were single head lite,,as for other hemi cars?,I was referring to the super stock factory sedan cars only!!
I guess I should have made myself more clear Runner.
Bill

It looks great!

64 grilles (both Dodge and Plymouth) aren't tapered so there's no need to bend the extra pieces...so no difference in " peak" /"crown".

Appears the crown is the correct 'look'.
Looks good, I dig it!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/TMP67/Lilly65.jpg

I love the look of the single headlights, but even the original grill modifications made back in '65 looked crude. This is mine, and it too has the original crude look (by today's standards).

Hi Basoline,

it looks awesome!

Thumbs up!!!

FLo

Man how did I miss this ?? That looks really good. I love the single headlite 64's and 65's. Very nice indeed. :yes: Ron

nice job basoline! where from the stock grille did you cut the donor pieces for the SS grille? I'm looking to do the same mod....so I'm looking for a donor grille.
Mike

Hi Mike,

Find yourself a centersection of the grille and cut 11 bars from the left and 11 bars from the right. From those pieces, remove the pieces that fit into the headlight bezel. Check the 3rd picture from the top in this thread. We taped the pieces that STAY with black tape. You use those bits to fit them UNDERNEATH the cut headlightbezel.

Hope everything goes well. Don´t underestimate it! Take your time...

Post some pictures when you're done!

Oh, check my blog article for more details:

http://understanders.blogspot.com/2009/07/super-stock-gril.html

The trick is to find an affordable grill!!!

Looks great, Good work!

Looks GREAT !

64 grilles (both Dodge and Plymouth) aren't tapered so there's no need to bend the extra pieces...so no difference in " peak" /"crown".
have i sent u the last pics or vid of the AFX i was sending u stuff about?

well here is the vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw_hfAZaqwc

Oh! mine is a single head light to keep with the thread!

I,ve always wondered what a 66 coronet would look like with that treatment or rewire the headlights for high low single beam and run ducts from ithe nside holes kinda like a thunderbolt

basoline: do you have 22 verticles left on the donor center grille? Do you think what you have left would work for a second grille? hint: wanna sell what you have left?

@Ed: check the blog ;-)

@Shopguy: well...I think the "crown" as they called it some posts back, will be too much because the whole grille is tapered to both ends (so the highest in the middle). And wanne sell? Hmmm...I'm in The Netherlands, Europe (yes I am) and I don't think transportation is really good for the leftovers.

Right. You have to use the end pieces as fillers as they are "shorter. The rest of the grille is basically trash afterwards.

I think it looks great ! I like to see guys that are not afraid to change things a little. I have changed a lot on my car without making it look a freak. I bought a 64 4 door for $200 just for the center section of the grille that was perfect. Both end pieces were found on Ebay. All 3 were dipped to take off the anodizing and black paint, power and hand sanded to remove pit marks, then polished to a shine.

Looking good!! Keep those SS-grilles coming guys!

baseoline, very nice, i know the feeling cutting up the h/l besels and the donor grille.
do not paint the radiator support.all factory supperstock cars were not painted by the factory.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o69/SUPERSTOCKRACER/63PLYMOUTH65DODGEA99068HEMIROADR-9.jpg

heres my race car

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o69/SUPERSTOCKRACER/4511960-4506147-Chris1LVDJune212008.jpg

another shot 65 dodges are one of my favorites


http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o69/SUPERSTOCKRACER/HEMIREUNION69HEMIRR65DODGECORONE-3.jpg

Great looking car !

heres my race car

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o69/SUPERSTOCKRACER/4511960-4506147-Chris1LVDJune212008.jpg

That 65 always lookin good :yes: