'68 "Spring Special" Inner Plastic Grill detail Tips/results, (cont. from 7/18/18)

It takes 4 basic pieces to compete. A spear (long thin) molding and a pot metal chromed rear “gill” section.

On the rears, people tend to drill random holes to keep it attached. The are 2 or 3 holes originally in the black portion of the slats (gills). If someone drills a hole in the chrome the piece is sorta trashed.

Also there is a protrusion on the front of the pot metal that the spear fits over to help hold it down.

And the rears get deep pitted easily since they are down so low in water/snow/salt area. Deep pits (about any pits) are hard and costly to re-chrome plate. Just regular pot metal plating is expensive nowadays.

Also, you’ll find Spears that are butchered by someone drilling holes in them to use screws to hold them on. They are supposed to have clips behind them to hold them on. And the clips are very hard to find.