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Baurluvva
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:19 pm

Does anyone know / have done the front grille modification that goes all the way across the lights - one piece from the inside of the curve on the wing to the corresponding other side - in slats?

Hope that this isnt as clear as mud

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Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:22 pm

Dodge charger style?
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:29 pm

Yup thats the kiddie - looks menacing :cool:
But how difficult to do?
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:30 pm

Ask Kingcruizer, he has done it on his cabby, looks very :cool:

Some pictures in the DC09 thread :)
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:32 pm

lenghened my bonnet and made a little chang check picture
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:33 pm

Hope you don't mind Kingcruizer:

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Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:37 pm

Would like to see it with the bonnet closed though!
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:43 pm

He had a bit of an engine problem :o: :o:

Didn't get any pics with the bonnet closed :(
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:49 pm

There is a pic in this issue of PBMW - a red cab with strange cream interior, but it has blacked out grill like kingcruiser! Uber :cool:
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:08 pm

Baurluvva wrote:There is a pic in this issue of PBMW - a red cab with strange cream interior, but it has blacked out grill like kingcruiser! Uber :cool:
this one?

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k2/Co ... 009022.jpg
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Yep this one:

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Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:10 pm

looks better on the red car.
Pete don't care about colour, He would shag a rainbow if he could find the end of it....
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:13 pm

No its not the same car - the interior on the one in PBMW has a cream leather VERY rounded seats that look as though they have speakers in the headrests - but the grill is like this one!
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:21 pm

my grill was easy to make. just expensive as its all alloy. this is the only pic i have with the bonnet closed at the mo
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i couldnt be bothered to cut up 10 plastic grills and weld them all together so i made my own.

^^imy.... i dont mind mate. p.s hows your resto coming on?
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:22 pm

Bootyman's cabby? 1.21 minutes in

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Doesn't have a grill like that :?
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:23 pm

kingcruizer wrote:my grill was easy to make. just expensive as its all alloy. this is the only pic i have with the bonnet closed at the mo
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i couldnt be bothered to cut up 10 plastic grills and weld them all together so i made my own.

^^imy.... i dont mind mate. p.s hows your resto coming on?
Looks very :cool:

On hold till next year :(
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Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:34 pm

Ooops! :o:
just had another look!! it IS the one above

S-weet!
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Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:03 pm

I think the red cars grille looks much nicer
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Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:10 pm

the bonnet looks awesome to
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