HOW TO BUILD A CUSTOM GRILLE

摘要

Custom grilles are touchy things since you're dealing with the "face" of the car. There's really very little middle ground on them-they either work to improve the look of the car, or they just feel out of place and distract from the rest of the car. When a custom grille misses the mark, it can be worse than having fugly wheels. The familiar pseudo-custom horizontal bar billet grilles found on everything from classic cars to modern trucks are usually safe. They're unobtrusive and flow with a wide variety of body lines since many factory grilles also have a horizontal bias. Speed mesh, likewise, has become popular on modern performance cars, and can work too if carefully applied. But neither of those gels with the character of a '67-68 Cougar with its vertical bar hideaway grille. It's one of the most distinctive and memorable things about the car.