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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:31 am    Post subject: Painting grille? Reply with quote

Just wondering what everybodys opinions are on painting the front grille?

I'm thinking about painting mine the same white as the bumpers and eventually the wheels and I'm just wondering how it looks.

Did any busses come from the factory with different colored grilles?

Does anybody have pics of busses with white grilles?

I'm hoping to brighten up the front a bit seeing as I won't have an emblem on until I get to work and fill in the old spare mount holes.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think a white grille looks like shit unless it's on a white Bus.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the early bays with the white tops had the front grilles painted white as well. I think it looks much better on the early bays because the grille is separate from the turn signals. The later bays did not have white grilles (at least my white toped '73 doesn't).


Here is my '72. Now she has those awesome little eyebrows, but otherwise she looks almost as good. The winter was hard on her *tear*
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In a failed attempt to chrome mine, it ended up with a flat silver look...sorta looks like bare metal, i like it.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Every bus needs fuzzy dice Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm liking it so far. I think I'm going to give it a shot. If I don't like it I can just respray it down the road.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cr@M wrote:
Every bus needs fuzzy dice Wink


Haha, i won them with tickets at an arcade
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still think that bottle opener is bad ass
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Malokin Martin wrote:
I still think that bottle opener is bad ass


x2. Even my wife loved it Razz. Peace!
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

White grille white bus. Without the tire.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haha thanks guys! I found it when rummaging through my garage, and thought it would make a perfect addition
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Faster, that bus is looking good. Thanks for that water tank from norcal Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a white grill on my '69DD, though it's a little orange now... Confused
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sunshine_the_bus wrote:
Malokin Martin wrote:
I still think that bottle opener is bad ass


x2. Even my wife loved it Razz. Peace!


X3. Up 'til this past weekend, I had never seen the "optional accessory" bottle-opener-on-the-car thingy until I saw one on the grill of a Studebaker rat rod pick-up featured on the Speed Channel. Now I've seen two in just a few days. The next customizing craze, perhaps? Wink
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I painted mine white. Turned out good. I bought an after market one but realized that when i mount it on the nose clip, it bulges out from the rest of the bus. (grill is not flush with the nose of the bus). I also had to get a new nose (seeing as how the original one was too far gone. Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

White grille white bus with a black bra Question Nice look Question
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice, I would post pics but I do not know how to. Its an orange bus white bumpers white grill
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="ho-dad"][quote="Sunshine_the_bus"]
Malokin Martin wrote:
I still think that bottle opener is bad ass


That is one of the coolest accesories i have seen, i want one!!
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:56 am    Post subject: Grill opener Reply with quote

Found my Coca-Cola bottle opener on EBay and it came in the original box. I mounted mine inside the Bus, too hard to reach it from the driver's seat at 65 MPH through the vent wing! And check out my gallery....I was going to paint my grill white to match the roof but She decided that chrome was the way to go. So much for my ideas....
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 12:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Painting grille? Reply with quote

Well since Busdaddy posted this link on another thread. Here is my '69 with painted grill and chrome.

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