Thread: help w/ugly grille

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I'm back after another hospital visit...how I hate them. Anyway we are rodding a 48 type chevy trk. My son thinks the grill is the worst looking part of the truck. With the top shopped , the cab extended & a reworked 94 chevy trk bed it has taken on another
look......he still does not like the grille.
Anyone have any modification recommendations?

thanks Don

Don I've got a '49 , and been wondering the same thing....
I was thinking of rolling the edges over real nice and neat, and making it some what round & buying one something like this ( pix) " may be a little much but the hole left after the grill is gone may be to tall 2 ? I think it'd have to have a really tuFF stance to pull it off .
"I'll photo shop one later tonight"

you have any more pixs of your progress ?

I never liked those grilles much either. I don't recall ever seeing one with a custom grille. Some people mold them in and paint them but it doesn't really help much.
I didn't like the grille in my 47 Ford pickup so I replaced it with a 58 Studebaker Hawk grille. I cut a piece of steel to cover the opening and cut a hole for the grille in the middle of it before I welded it on. I don't know how it would work on the Chevy. The Ford was flatter across the front. An old Valiant grille has the same shape but is a little bigger. A 60 Chrysler is even bigger than that. With the Chrysler Grille it's almost required that you have slanted quad headlights.

Here's the 47 with the Hawk grille and split bumper. I also opened up the vents in the sides of the hood and extended the 3/4 inch bead straight back and down in front.

I think that if ya open it up you can have a edsel stlye grill......look like a truck sucking a big old lemon

well I photo shoped it but I don't like it ........
You'd have to do somthing with the hood, in front ?

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Hows abouts getting a NOS front grill for a new Chevy SSR. Chevy dealerships should be able to get these parts even if the truck is so new. The SSR is also based on the old Chevy trucks. Just a thought.

what about just making up a custom grill out of alluminum, or chromed steel bars, bent, and assembled like a buick waterfall grill.

Not a bad idea. What if you went with a wraparound grill made out of 1/2 inch steel tubing. Then look at your truck and decide chrome or black. Or you could be really pimpin and have a huge Chrome push-bar!