Technical custom grille and bumper on styleline

ive just bought a 52 desoto front bumper with good chrome to fit on my 49 styleline, also ive got hold of 6 overriders, to use as teeth, any tips on making them?

 

Just start looking at pictures of other cars and recreate what you like, or draw it on paper

 

hi guys, wadya recon? i fitted teeth today, old overriders from a 40s british car,ive painted bottom grille matt black,not sure wether to to paint top part of grille matt black,???

 

i mocked up a desoto bumper ,ive gotta make brackets,

 

I like it. It's looking good. Leave the top chrome.

 

Yeah, take the top back to chrome. This way it doesn't begin to look ratty or cheap. The chrome adds design class.
How about an angled shot?

 

The bumper looks a little too heavy for the Chevy. Too blocky, needs to be more rounded not so square. Nice car. Just my 2 cents worth.

 

chrome was worn away,thats why i painted it

 

Looks great!

 

Sorry, Sometimes less is more- I've seen radical customs with stock Chevy grille.

 

The teeth look abit large for the opening, I tried many different ways and just finished mine the other day. Its a tough decision with so many options you just need to go with what you like. If you like it then that's all that counts.

 

Lookin good. I love the bumper.

Most tooth grilles have an odd number of teeth, to center a tooth rather than a gap.
Is another tooth available, for a total of 7? If not, have you tried 5 teeth?
Also, are the teeth identical top and bottom? If not, have you tried them inverted? (Just curious.)

 

all bolted up to original brackets, can i have your opinions before i drill bumper,as to where to have license plate, center,, or end???

 

I like to center and line everything up on the front. The plate should be centered. The grill should have a tooth centered to follow the hood center trim all the way to the center trim between the windshields. It would like right that way.

 

could anybody fotoshop that for me? plz

 

how do you mean inverted?

 

Just flipped top to bottom, if there is a difference. It's hard to tell from the pictures.
(The new pictures look like the same top to bottom.)

 

yeah, the bottom is slightly wider, but what diff will that make tho? i might redo it with 5 like you say, or if i find 2 similar 1s,that are a bit smaller to use at either end and have 7

 

ok,i turned them other way up and added 2 smaller 1s at each end, using 5 of the 6 i had, NOW,,do ya think it looks right??? thanx for all advise and input guys,

 

Looks better without the small ones.

 

Now you're talkin'!
Flipping the teeth brings them below the upper bar level. Nice!
Two identical teeth might look better than the small ones, but I'd roll with what you've got.
Measure your spacing from tooth center to tooth center, NOT distance between teeth.
(And the plate definitely goes in the center of the bumper.)

You done good!

 

thanx a lot, if i can manage to get hold of another 1 of the big 1s,i will fit them,

 

Use just the Desoto bumper with the Chevy chrome stock grille surround and horizontal Chevy chromed bar.
Ditch the pointed parking lights and the vertical bumperettes as they make the car too gaudy. as if it has a mouth full of protuding overbite teeth.
Keeping it simple would then give you a nice , clean custom.

 

i also had to fill in the holes i had drilled for when i had them on the other way,doh!

 

Just so's you knows, my '49 runs 9 '53 teeth.

 

yeah, nice

 

There ya go. That looks better. Plate in the center is

 

Oh!
Someone may have already mentioned the parking lights...
Keep the Caddy bezels, but cop some domed (stock) lenses.
Let your teeth do the cutting. You're a 'gator, not a boar.

 

just had to make fill in pieces for corners coz desoto bumper is a lot wider,also i only need 1 more overrider to swap an end 1