Front Grille - How To Restore?

[PabloCruise]

The front grille on my '74 is pretty sun faded and chipped.

I am trying to decide between painting it and powder coating it.

I think the powder coat will be more durable to rock chips, but I will be limited to silver, maybe I could paint the letters black after the powder coat...

Does anyone have pictures of how the grille was painted from the factory?

My '74 grille has the little extra detail fins in the bottom corners.

Thanks for any pics you can provide of a original or restored grille!

 

[cml25]

I sandblasted mine and used the Rustoleum Hammer Pewter color. A year later it's holding up very well and that's sitting outside in the AZ sun. I tried to paint the letters white after the silver but it turned out s***ty so I just went all silver.

from this

To this

I did the headlamp rings and bumpers also.

 

[offkilter]

Original from a 1970

 

[PabloCruise]

Original from a 1970

Muy Perfecto!

Thank you!

Looks like I could go with powder coat and maybe a black sheet of vinyl to detail?

Also, I found this pic of a resto:

 

[1973Guppie]

I plan to paint mine pewter and then tape it up very carefully and hit the center area with gloss black.

Noah

 

[Trollhole]

75 before and stock.

75 after sanding and painting.

I found that if you paint the pewter first and then come back and tape over it and cut the letters you can then paint the black.

 

[PabloCruise]

Good stuff guys - thank you!

I think I will go with a satin black vs. gloss for the detail work.

Does anyone know if I powder coat silver, will it take a black paint for the detail?