Need help with grill choice

As some of you know, there is a MAJOR local show on Saturday that I am scheduled to participate in. So I decided to play around with some paint that I had left over and painted a spare grill body color. I decided to "black out" the word Buick to set it apart. Now I don't know what to do. Which grill should I compete with? Keep in mind that for the judging, the hood will be open, but will be closed after judging (1pm) until after the concert (11 PM).


So, without further adieu, here is the question in pictorial form for those of us that are visually perverted

Stock...... we all know what it looks like.



Both grills side by side



Close up (to help in the decision process)



The "new" grill



Yuck! Bad lighting



Better lighting.....



and the close up of the completed project




So, what should I do? Keep the stock grill, or show it with the painted grill, or "Crovo" the fins?

At least tomorrow will be spent buffing, polishing, waxing, and cleaning.... God I hate showing daily drivers

Stock grille, body color letters!

Robert, body colour the fins with the chrome bezel and crovo the mounting tabs so they disapear

jayoldschool wrote:

Stock grille, body color letters!

I like that! Very subtle.

You gotta black out the mounting tabs though if you go with a painted grille, they just show up too much.

buickestate wrote:

Robert, body colour the fins with the chrome bezel and crovo the mounting tabs so they disapear

How 'bout body color the letters and black out the fins on the chrome bezel?

I no longer have MAB in spray-able form. I do, however, still have some in a scratch pen.

Well...I like the outer part of the grille body color. (with BUICK still in black) Looks kinda cool that way. But I think you should black out the center and mounting tabs for sure (don't forget the heads of the mounting screws too)

I am sure you will figure out what you like! Can't wait to see pics form the show!


Chris

stock chrome grill with body colored letters, black fins,..

Nick

buickestate wrote:

Robert, body colour the fins with the chrome bezel and crovo the mounting tabs so they disapear

Yep.

Did somebody call me?

I like the chrome grill with the black letters myself. But body color letters may look nice, too.

Can you put some clear on that one you painted and buff it up nice so it matches the body? That may look ok if you black out between the fins and the mounting tabs, too...

OK, decided on the chrome grill with body colored letters.

The chrome is starting to fail, but I think it looks more "proper" on the car than the painted one does. I also think that the hood ornament looks out of place with the painted grill. Might look better with a Suncoast hood?

Krzdimond wrote:

OK, decided on the chrome grill with body colored letters.

Wise choice I'd say, if you take away the chrome you take away the luxury feeling of the Buick and (no offense Chevy guys) then it'll soon be "just" a Caprice. In my opinion that is

+1 on what Pat said.

What I found now that I "Crovoed" my grill 5K ago, is that I didn't rough it up enough and road debris has sand blasted the black off so it's sorta Dalmatian chrome right now (getting sprayed again tomorrow I hope). That was two coats black and two coats clear (all Home Depot paint).

One other ideal is to leave the fins chrome and remove the black from the letter so there chrome and paint the outer shell body color.

So? What did you decide to do?? PICS!!!

Decided on the stock grill with body colored letters..





Was parked next to a guy named Adam. I detailed his car too

He said that he is NEVER going to another one of these because my wagon was getting more looks and comments than his SS

From an advertising standpoint, it was a bust. Rained for 3 days so the fairgrounds were "slushy" so it was moved to an abandoned parking lot . Instead of having 35,000 people walk by, I had, maybe, 200.

Anyway, still had fun. Here are a couple more pics....




My wifey and daughter:

Nice pics!! Wagon looks great...and that black SS looks niice. You know how to make those dark colors shine

Someone say SHINE








I LOVE black cars....... for the first 20 minutes
The rest of the before/afters are here:

https://s678.photobucket.com/albums/vv145/Kittredgecustomdetailing/Graves/

NICE!

WOAH Robert!! NICE!!! You got the touch!

Nice work! Just amazes me how shiny 10+ year old paint can still look.