Door knob style grille

I am kicking around the idea of doing a door knob style grille on my 54 F-100. I did some searching on here, but didn't come up with anything. Has anyone ever done this? If so, how did y'all do it and what was all involved? If anyone has pictures, please post? My idea came from seeing the guy who has the blue 56 F-100 from Burbank Choppers.

Thanks,

Phil

 

Try an expanded metal grill, with flat black paint. Place the knobs on the grill with (flat black) washers just a bet larger than the expanded metal openings.

 

Try an expanded metal grill, with flat black paint. Place the knobs on the grill with (flat black) washers... just larger than the expanded metal openings.

 

Check it out here is mine. I have a 52 Studebaker truck with a 56 front grill shell. The openings make it look to plain so i did the knob treatment. I got the knobs at Home Depot for .99 cents each not bad since others were over $2 bucks each. Your gonna need nuts, washers, and lock washers so they dont get loose from vibration. I used punched hole stainless steel I got from a steel scrapyard for 10 bucks. I love the look and i also mounted 52 Studebaker headlamps and rings on it.
Hope this helps.
Good Luck,
LUCKY RICKY

 

Here's one from the Hunnert Car Pileup. If memory serves it was a '60 Chevy.

 

Thanks Ricky. That helped me alot.

 

Although my unformed sixteen-year-old brain thought that I was cool when I copied George Barris by putting them on my '52 Buick in 1960, I gotta say that once was one too many for the that fad.

 

This is an old picture of a 1956 Ford F100 that I built in 1975. The grill opening was formed from 2" muffler tubing and sheet metal, and the grill was made from peices of a 1958 Buick grill bolted to a steel flatbar frame, which was painted flat black.---Brian

 

Bump.

I'm thinking of Doing a door nob grill on my 51 chev sedan, anyone got anymore advice or pictures???!

 

they are also called drawer knob grills,Cabinet knob or Drawer pull grills

past posts:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=593920&highlight=drawer+knob
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=569917&highlight=drawer+knob
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397578&highlight=chrome+knob+grille

 

Thanks dude

 

Customs Picture request: Cabinet knob or Drawer pull grills
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=593920

chrome knob grilles in 60's cars?
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4335961

Customs Drawer-knob grilles
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=569917

 

never liked the look of knobs in a grill

 

I did my with draw pulls

 

A buddy of mine did this on his 55 buick a few years back. Looked really cool, but the bummer was that what seemed like a simple cheap update turned out to be pretty expensive cause he needed about triple the amount of knobs he originally calculated.

Just a quick heads up and make sure you check that deal out, or you'll be sitting with a bunch of extra knobs!
Post some pictures if and when you do get her complete. I'll be excited to see the final outcome!
Cheers,
Biff

 

i done this 53 chevy with 100 lip stick lids.

 

O.K., what do the 'kustom shops' call this op? ...a 'Knob Job'?

 

Lip stick knobs is thinking outside the box. You GF probally loved that.

 

Wow, the HAMB has educated me again. I have never seen this done, or more likely, never noticed it before. It looks great on some of the cars that I saw in the various threads on this subject. On others, what were people thinking.

 

Wow that looks cool, trick Idea probabily gets expensive with all those handles though?........."VERY NICE!"

 

I did mine a couple years ago. I cut the original grill bars out and slid in a piece of expanded metal. 50 or so knobs later and you have this. A whole lotta bang for your buck.

 

I like it!!!---Brian

 

Hard to show them, but here's some chromed, bullet-shaped door pulls on my '55 Buick grill. I found a box of 125 of those pulls, brand new in packages on Ebay for less than $60 shipped.

 

From the Classic tgrucks magazine site
Chrysler grill shell

 

those look like a few of those little cheap ass stick on things you buy at autozone on there. looks killer this is soo the look im goin for with mine. now for some expanded sheetmetal, anyone know where I can get some of this super cheap?

 

The lipstick lids! That was different!