Anyone have pics of Kustom grills on 49 fleetlines?

So i picked up a 49 Fleetline and considering changing up the front end..

what has been done out there?

please post up!

 

The hood latch is part of the grille support, I was looking at changing mine, it's not easy. It's also not easy to change and have it not look like ass.

But guys use '53 Chevy surrounds a lot, or have done things like just replace the middle bar, and those usually look okay. Should not be hard to come up with a picture of that, look in any mag or search for photos of 49-52 Chevys -

 

VenomusType, check out the listing I have made here:

http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=1949_Chevrolet

There is a couple of Fleetline's there at least

 

here afew

 

I'm planning on doing to mine what Bass did to this one, except I'll be using the stock 50 Merc grill:

 

Just saw this on Hot Rod Hot Line. Not sure what that bumper is but I think the grill is from a Chrysler or Imperial .....

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I haven't finished mine yet....

The vertical teeth are shot, but the horizontal pieces are ok.
I'm going to add 2 thin horizontal bars to the bottom opening, and one across the top. autozone had 3/8" chrome side molding stuff.

 

48 Chev. Aero putting a modified 47 Olds front end on it.

 

A low-buck mod back in the day was to just clean out all the vertical teeth. This is a shot of mine taken in 1958.

 

oooh those looks nice!

and Poboyross

what front bumper is that on that fleety?

 

the livingstone fleetline...


more info courtesy of Rikster (and others) here:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=219129

 

My approach was almost the same. I removed the lower vertical bars and added 5 1954 Chevy teeth to the stock center bar .....

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wow

 

Mine....

concept:



Reality:



Will snap some finished shots this weekend...



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thats sweet!

 

bullet nose, of all the ideas pictured soo far i like yours the best very cool

 

Thanks! But remember that picture was taken in 1957 or 1958 and I bought the teeth at the local Chevrolet dealer.

 

bullet nose - that photo is perfect. you must have been living the dream.

 

DAYUM!!!! You just made me rethink my plans for the Merc grill/grill cavity...wouldn't copy yours and siphon off your coolness, though! You did that with the stock grill? Wow.....

 

I have a book here somewhere that used a '59 Chevy Impala grill cut to fit in a '51 Chevy Fleetline , they removed the center section out of the '51 and set the '59 grill in the void , looked awesome , the book was printed in '71 , and I got it around here somewhere , if I find it , I'll post some pics .mabye someone here has a pic of a '59 chevy grill in a '51 chevy?

 

Nice work !!

 

Man , my wife is so cool , I asked her if she knew where those books were , and in 5 minutes , she produced them , so , without further ado, here those pics out of that old book I got...

 

ratroddude when i read your first post i thought a 59 chevy grille in a 51 thats gotta look like ass ........... but acttually it looks fairly cool i think i like it

 

That looks like a '59 Imperial grille, rare and pricey.

 

Found a few more by doing a google search , see if you like these...

 

This is the grill i made,

the original grill with a 53corvette grill in center.

 

Here is a 57 Chevy Truck Grill in a 50 coupe .....

 

'49 I built a few years ago.....