Got my new grille overlay installed

So after seeing the Downs Ford Mach 1 car and the grille they did I went out to mimic it. Overall I'm pretty happy with the results. It looks good and will do the trick until someone makes a factory styled 1 piece unit or I just switch out the front end and do a cervini billet grille or whatever.

Anwyays the pieces I did were a Street Scenes black powdercoated grille with a 71-73 Mustang Tri Bar Pony logo on the front. That's currently about all I would maybe want to fix, it's a little off axis from the way the holes are. I may if I get a chance grind out a bit of a slot to get the bottom of the tri bar to come in a bit. It's not much and really only noticable when you're looking straight at it but the OCD in me probably won't let it stay that way for long, heh.

Check it out, let me know what you think (outside of needs a wash, heh been raining 2-3 times a day for a week or more now). Car wash Saturday AM just before the local Mustang Show.



Only downsides you can still see the old logo outline on the old grille and the install instructions were pretty much a waste.

Yep it's just a bolt on one I ordered from Mustangs Unlimited. New repo from a 71-73 Mustang.

That would be the other option, I'm not sure if I wanted the centre lamps, that may be my upgrade path down the road should a grille like this one not show up. The bolts on the back I'd say are 2.5" or maybe a bit longer so it should fit through most grilles.

I'd love to hear any input on any ways to minimize the outline of the pony.

Oh yeah it's already off, it's just the solid outline of where the pony is that you can see. If you look at the picture above you can pick it out.

Ultimately it'll do until replacement ones closer to what I want come out. Blow by Racing sounds like they have some very slick billet ones coming in black.

Yeah I thought about that. It's not so desperate for me that I wouldn't just go order a Cervini grille or wait for the new ones coming a couple months. It was an experiment that I like, it's just that final bit is the only thing that I wish I could fix.

In this case the stock piece is already a lost cause because of the holes. If I want to go stock easily I'll have to order a new grille but I don't see much point. Like I said it looks good driving around and casual looks I just wish Ford had developed that mount differently. Ah well I have a car show tomorrow which is what I installed it for. We'll see what people think.

They do in fact offer a matching lower but I didn't care much for the look. This grille after a few weeks has grown on me rather well. I'm still going to replace it with a new one when Blow By Racing announces availability of some of the very very cool ones they have coming out, but this will do the trick for now.

Another updated shot as that one above sucks...



Shows off the clear corners too.