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<\/a><\/p>\nStarting at the middle.\u00a0 These grills and bumper are original, warts and all, I just polished them by hand as well as I could with steel wool and Mothers mag polish.\u00a0 I’ll get some electricity involved and polish the heck out of them at some point.\u00a0 Note the spacing between the grills and bumper is fairly even -took a lot of bumper mount bending to make that happen.\u00a0 Grills will have to come back off to fit the lights but this was a good exercise.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> These were in pretty bad shape when I started.\u00a0 The upper one had been tweaked a lot and required a half an hour of tapping and bending to get it to the pretty good state seen here.\u00a0 Both had a lot of over-spray -vestiges of which can still be seen.\u00a0 A quick wet sand with 1500 and some polish has them looking really good.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> All mounted up.\u00a0 I don’t know what was originally used to mount them so I used stainless M5 x 16 Cheese-head screws.\u00a0 Nice reflections!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> Next task was getting the bumper to align.\u00a0 These mounts take a lot of abuse and are not very rigid.\u00a0 Threads were in bad shape so I chased them with an M10 x 1.5 die.\u00a0 The orientation of the stud in relation to the flat part dictates the angle of the bumper to the car.\u00a0 I bent this a lot of times before I was happy with how the bumper fit.\u00a0 There are carriage bolts in the top of the bumper at about the right spacing for spot lights, so it may mount some.\u00a0 I just have to figure out how to get the rusty nuts off!\u00a0 Should I neutralize the rust and brush paint the inside of the bumper silver? <\/strong><\/p>\n A little closer.\u00a0 Looks good no?\u00a0 I need a set of the bolt hiders for my red Sprint.<\/strong><\/p>\n This picture is near the end of the process.\u00a0 The car came with two of the original 16 little clips that hold these trim strips on.\u00a0 What to do.\u00a0 I had this vision of capturing a screw in the hollow backside channel that I could send through the hole in the body put a nut on.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n They sell strips of aluminum in bulk as OSH so I grabbed a 6 foot length, thinking I would chamfer the edges so they could be slid in the trim piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> Once the piece fit I tapped a hole in it and sent this M5 through the hole.<\/strong><\/p>\n Cheese head screws are not ideal for this application, but get the job done.\u00a0 I made these four quicker than the first one since I discovered if I angled the hacksaw at about 45 degrees for the cuts I wouldn’t have to file the chamfers in.\u00a0 I’d only have to dress them as needed a little bit.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ready to mount.\u00a0 Does it matter that there’s overspray on the backside?\u00a0 I love this rubber topped 1960’s Steelcase table.\u00a0 Very sturdy.\u00a0 And someone else already ruined the top so I got it cheap and don’t have to feel bad about any stains or gouges I create.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n