[WANTED] 69 barracuda grill

[67furyfasttop]

looking for a 1969 plymouth barracuda grill
I mainly need right side but willing to buy both if I have to. Attached a pic for reference.
As far as I understand 67 68 and 69 grills are all different. Let me know if you have one.

 

[barracudakid]

Got it

 

[moparmat2000]

The plastic surround is repairable. You can take the grille assembly apart, the plastic will glue together like it was never broken if you use Methyl Ethyl Keytone MEK available at Lowes in the paint solvents section as a solvent adhesive.

Fit the plastic pieces tightly together only 2 pieces at a time, brush the MEK into the crack from the back side that you have tightly together. It will pull itself into the crack. Hold the pieces for a few minutes then let sit overnight. By morning the glue joint will be a solid piece. The MEK slightly melts the original plastic then solidifies.

Whatever you do, do NOT try to glue the plastic with super glue. It's not as strong of a joint as solvent adhesive is. I redid 2 sets of 69 grilles in the manner I am explaining. Small missing pieces of plastic you can actually fill in with JB weld.

Use a sandable lacquer primer on the surrounds, and spray it on in very light coats with a spray gun allowing it to dry before the next coat so it bites into the plastic without severely attacking it. You can then sand the primer with a 320-400 wet sand. If you want silver, I found krylon paint n primer "metallic aluminum" looks pretty correct.

 

[moparmat2000]

Heres that silver krylon. The diecast pieces are repops. They fit "ok" not great I had to do a lot to make it all work. I reinforced the holes for the inner trim rivets and used 4-40 machine screws to hold all the inner trims back on. The hollow rivets put too much stress on the plastic and it cracks over time. The grilles look nice but need to be finished. For now they are boxed up and in the loft waiting until we are ready to put them in the car.

 

[67furyfasttop]

Awesome tip!
I appreciate it. Its all there so I'd like to keep original.

The plastic surround is repairable. You can take the grille assembly apart, the plastic will glue together like it was never broken if you use Methyl Ethyl Keytone MEK available at Lowes in the paint solvents section as a solvent adhesive.

Fit the plastic pieces tightly together only 2 pieces at a time, brush the MEK into the crack from the back side that you have tightly together. It will pull itself into the crack. Hold the pieces for a few minutes then let sit overnight. By morning the glue joint will be a solid piece. The MEK slightly melts the original plastic then solidifies.

Whatever you do, do NOT try to glue the plastic with super glue. It's not as strong of a joint as solvent adhesive is. I redid 2 sets of 69 grilles in the manner I am explaining. Small missing pieces of plastic you can actually fill in with JB weld.

Use a sandable lacquer primer on the surrounds, and spray it on in very light coats with a spray gun allowing it to dry before the next coat so it bites into the plastic without severely attacking it. You can then sand the primer with a 320-400 wet sand. If you want silver, I found krylon paint n primer "aluminum " looks pretty correct.