What would look good in the grill of the Fly?

[Roothawg]

After looking at pics of the fly on the web....it looks like it needs something in the grillshell area.

Maybe something like a drilled piece of sheetmetal, or a pinstriped insert?

[nailheadmerc]

the infamous lizard would pretty bitchin' ask FLT BLK! patent pending http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif arrrrrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!

maybe a spider web design something like sideburns did on his ride.

[manyolcars]

A FLY!!!!!

[Crankshaft Sid]

I gan give u a BIG photo of my ugly mug on it...

Oorrrr, something like the Von dutch upsidedown face would be wild...

[Roothawg]

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I gan give u a BIG photo of my ugly mug on it...

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I don't wanna scare all the little kids......

[BARNETT]

Howz 'bout a crazed, weirdo-style-painted, fire breathing, dragonfly?! Or maybe some blue plex (to match your windows) with alternating big and little holes drilled in it?

[slacker_53]

Whatta ya doin? Try'in to make it SLOWER??? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Looks good to me the way it is

Flatheads Forever http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[JimC]

Root, hows bout shortening the shell just even with the top of the block and puttin a fly in a web?
Jim

[Roothawg]

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Howz 'bout a crazed, weirdo-style-painted, fire breathing, dragonfly?!

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I can't paint........

[BARNETT]

Just edited my reply with a suggestion for a non-painting solution. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Roothawg]

It needs something...like big holes drilled in a piece of aluminum for a grill.

[Roothawg]

Did Crease give you your paint or did he sniff it all before he got home?

[BARNETT]

The "holes" thing ties into your drilled visor and axle.

[Crease]

Root

How about a metal spider web with a big fly in it?http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Nah, Just get Danny to stripe up some stainless.

[Roothawg]

Maybe a WW2 nose art kinda thing with a DragnFly in a bomber helmet and goggles?

[nailheadmerc]

look at the kontinentals website or aces and eights. sideburns made a web out of like 1/4 rod. it would look bitchin' with a fly added to it. for tha fly

[Roothawg]

I did the siperweb insert in my T. Kinda want something racier......something kinda dry lakes looking.....

[Crankshaft Sid]

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I gan give u a BIG photo of my ugly mug on it...

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I don't wanna scare all the little kids......

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Waddya mean scare the kids?
http://photo.starblvd.net/MaroccoRocco/2-2-5.jpg

[Rooster]

......something kinda dry lakes looking.....

Then ditch the shell entirely rather than doing any of the ideas shared that I've seen so much similar to, posted by members here. Look at some of the really ugly early lakes aero experiments. Things like flat sheet alum. wedge noses and such. It wouldn't be pretty by any stretch, but it'd be BALLSY to do it. Unique in todays follow the leader world, though still rooted in tradition and no more original than anything anyone with less guts would do. I'm bettin everybody else just looks at many of those early days pics with curiousity but aren't inspired by the strange, somehow mishapen, yet totally Cool experiments in cheating the wind.

[BARNETT]

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Did Crease give you your paint or did he sniff it all before he got home?


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Nah...he lives like 3 miles from me, but I never actually SEE the guy. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Greezy]

Root the Fly is perfect as is...(hint of butt smootching). But an aluminum filler with holes wouldnt take away from the look either.

[D Picasso]

there's a fellow who occasionally shows up down here that weaves scorpions from copper wire, all sizes.

one of them mounted to a piece of expanded metal and you're good to go.

[Travis]

How about the Fly catching a Spider?!

Travis

[av8]

For a touch of whimsy . . .

. . . a large painted zipper about one-third open.

[ESnacky6]

Nice one Av8... Haha..!!
(hey what were you thinking of using those Panasports on anyway..?)


I like Germ's 'grill' idea...

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Serious though.
We could cook some HOT DOGS at HAMB DRAGS. on someones
SHOPPING BASKET Insert 32 ford GRILL...........

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[choprods]

laminate a bunch of south Missouri BUGS in betwixt two layers of lexan and drill it full of tiny holes then mount it in that shell!

[Fat Hack]

Chicken wire with one of those gag shop rubber chickens behind it!

[FLAT-TOP BOB]

i like the colored plexi idea! maybe mounted with a alum. panel behind it!

[Boones]

put a moon tank in the middle of it...

[Elrusto]

A timeout doll with a noose around its neck! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[atch]

why does that always happen? i've got the perfect solution, and two minutes before i'm gonna answer someone (happens to be boones this time) takes the words right outta my mug?

MOON TANK!

[Roothawg]

I have a tank that is a vertical one that is mounted on the left if the frame. I hoped it would fit in the opening but it looked wrong and was too cumbersome to route all the hoses. That's what I had in mind originally.

[Revhead]

Some WWII style teeth (like p-40 warhawk nose art)drawn on either a panel, or just cut out at the tops and bottom.

[Mai Ki-Ki]

Blue Plex....drilled with Barnett Designet Draginfly.

But having said that..it's stilll perfect as is....

Cheers
MAIKI http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[delaware george]

i like it,but i like the blue plexi idea also

[Roothawg]

The only problem with that is I would hafta buy another freaking sheet!!!! Won't sell me just a little piece. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[FLAT-TOP BOB]

how bout the plexi with a alum. panel behind it with the drag/n fly painted on it!

[201]

A set of Dagmars, cast aluminum, the 38 inch size,or the blue plexiglass !!!!

[delaware george]

nobody has a scrap that big lying around?....maybe you could just duct tape pin-up calanders to it like dean moon http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Sam F.]

i like the blue plexi idea with something cool on it like a dragon fly.


or fill it with a polished sheet of stainless(or aluminum) drilled out

[kustombuilder]

how about a RADIATOR???

seriously. how abouts a big ole metal dragon fly that touches the top, bottom and each side. any metal sculpter/artist out there???? bet JEEM could do it. JEEM can do ANYTHING!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif i'd like to try it but with my luck i'd get it done and someone else would have already finished one for ya. i'm kinda slow http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[kustombuilder]

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For a touch of whimsy . . .

. . . a large painted zipper about one-third open.

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HELL YES!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[C9]

Get the grille shell down for a good hood line.
Fill the grille with a louvered aluminum insert.
Put a hood top on it.
Leave the sides open.

Alternatively, use a hole saw to put a bunch of holes in the aluminum insert.
Whether louvers or holes, some kind of artistic work on the hood top would work well.

Something a little - genuine - Von Dutch or even Roth.
The car as it sits is just about there vis a vis the 50's - 60's drag racing sedan look.
Just needs a touch of tweaking.

[Roothawg]

Yeah it needs something....just can't pinpoint it.

[Rocky]

Here........this is "racier' and it looks spectacular!

[Shiva69]

ok here is my idea.

get a sheet of aluminum and put a grid of 3/4 to 1" holes in it starting at the corners down from the top.

In that place above the grid of holes. you need a simple design..... and here is my last idea.

get on of the HAMB artists to draw you a small... you decide how large.... dragonfly cartoony or otherwise. then trace it out on a appropriate size of plexy and cut it out then use a dremel or the like and add the small details.

Then mount it w/ screws or the like.

Garth

[41sled]

some thing like this?

[kustombuilder]

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Get the grille shell down for a good hood line.
Fill the grille with a louvered aluminum insert.
Put a hood top on it.
Leave the sides open.


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best idea yet IMHO!!!

[shoebox72]

Man, it looks good the way it is. OR A big flyswatter....
A few strips of flypaper? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Billy

[zibo]

how about one of those crying baby things...

[FEDER]

A FLY HOLDIN A 10 SECOND ET SLIP!!! Forget about the grill make it run First.--FEDER

[Mai Ki-Ki]

no hood is my vote..gives the fly that more 'hardkore(tm) look...hood makes it too "normal'" imho.

[BLAKE]

Red plexi grill...

[BLAKE]

Holey aluminum/mesh (Batman!)...

[Roothawg]

You guys have waaaaay too much time on your hands..... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[BLAKE]

The web thang...

[BLAKE]

Da moon tank...

[BLAKE]

D'oh! Da moon tank, redux...

[BLAKE]

Just shortened the shell...

[Sailor]

Either: Blue plexiglass with silver pinstriping.

Or: an aluminium insert with a weirdo style painting on it done in orange and black.

['Flyin' Dutchman']

I'm down with the plex idea... And then maybe a Moontank in front of it, ot behind it... Or maybe make a cutout in the lower area of the plex and put the Moontank in there...

[WZ JUNK]

Crank driven 871 sticking out through the center of the radiator shell.

[Roothawg]

Lots of good ideas.....gimme something to ponder.

[BLAKE]

OK.. so I'd, like, had few beers and stuff when I was PhotoShop'ing those last night.

My recommendation would be to definitely chop the grill shell fairly drastically. The 'maybe' fill it with a panel (aluminum, mesh, plexi, whatever...) or just leave it as-is. I don't think I'd fill the shell with something at stock height.

Just my $.02 - let us know how you decide to go.

[Roothawg]

I think it would look wierd from the side if it were chopped dramatically.

[Mai Ki-Ki]

the height of the grille is perfect...
and in fact with it open it looks 100% awesome.
with perspex might creep to 105% awesome, but slower due to resistance?

hehe

VIVA LE FLY!

[Boones]

I think C9 had a good idea with putting a hood on it and doing an aluminum insert leaving the sides open (still like the small moon tank)..

[Lockjaw]

Tried to post this pic. yesterday anyway holes or louvers. Love your car! http://photo.starblvd.net/~custommetal/1-3-4.jpg

[Drewfus]

aS per Mai-ki's proposed blue perspex with the dragonfly pinstriping.

Very cool.

the spiderweb thing, reminds me of a 'last year's fashion' deal......know what I mean?

Cheers,

Drewfus http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Roothawg]

Yep, that's kinda what I was thinking Lockjaw. Is that your car?

Thanks

Root

[Lockjaw]

Root-it's mine and been lots of fun but that may all change as i'm going to injectors &amp; alcohol. I've been reading about your problems.Sent mine off to be flowed first.

[Roothawg]

Man, don't let it scare ya.
This system was virtually maint. free from 1962 when it was new til the late 70's. It has been sitting dry since then.

[Roothawg]

BTW, you GOTTA bring that to the Hamb drags next year!!!

[Deyomatic]

I think that if you put something in the grill purely for cosmetic purposes, it is going to take away from the "No Nonsense Racecar" look. Wouldn't a flat piece of any material just make it even less aerodynamic? The Moon tank idea, would look good and serve a purpose. Whatever you do, I think that if it isn't functional it shouldn't be there.

[Lockjaw]

I'd really like to go ,have to see how things evolve. My new system should work ok ,it's just me i'm worried about.Plus car might go to fast for it's chassis.Love to race you and get a pic. Later!!

[Roothawg]

Lockjaw, I would love to. Hopefully, I can get mine lined out this winter and it would make a better showing.

Deyo, I agree. I really can't figure out what I want. If I don't have a definite. I'll just leave it alone.
Although, I thought about a removeable insert for towing and shows etc.

[BELLM]

Make a flat sheetmetal insert, easily removeable. primer it. Give it to your kids with a good selection of paint, tell them it is only going to be in when you are towing the car, see what THEY come up with.

You told me @ the drags that someone was rattling the door handle on the motorhome, scared the kids. Maybe they can paint his portrait, it could become a HAMB "wanted" poster.

[Mai Ki-Ki]

ROOT!
You've hit the nail on the head...
Make a nice blue plexi/pinstriped no holes piece for travelling/shows..etc.

Remove for flight...er...sorry racing.

PURFECT.....problem...what problem?

cheers
MAIKI http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Roothawg]

Hey Bell, that story has a few flaws in it. After drilling the kids on what exactly happened and who saw what...the story has a few holes in it. Maybe a little overactive imagination?

Mai, I really don't know what I'll do. We'll figure something out....

[Kevin Lee]

Since you asked I say just remove the shell completely and add the moon tank. Wouldn't get much more "all business" than that would it? I still love that car just as it is though.

[Crease]

Never see me?

I always figured you saw me more than you wanted to!

Actually, I've got all kinds of crap for ya! Paint, the $2 Target purchase and bought you and the little lady somethin that I thought might look good in the Tiki room. Not really Tiki, but Im thinkin you'll like it.

[lesabre59]

If Barnett says Blue Plexi...it needs to be BLUE PLEXI!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Tuck]

I like it just the way it is... dont change a thing.

[BARNETT]

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If Barnett says Blue Plexi...it needs to be BLUE PLEXI!!

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http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Steve you're killin' me. But if that's the way you feel about doing what I say...everybody send me lots of money...NOW!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Smokin Joe]

Lockjaw you own that FED chassis too? What's up with that?
Root, I'd put a removeable sheet in there and have someone stripe you a dragonfly with the Drag-N-Fly name in it. Pop it off to race.

[straykatkustoms]

Hey Root, finally found the grill isert that you should put in the Drag n Fly.
I would try to come up with some kool artwork of a pissed off Dragon Fly framed with some pinstripes.


Just my two cents.

Happy Trails,

Mick

[straykatkustoms]

Detail pic