The Impalas gettin a Face Lift........Needs a new Grille too

Current pics of the impalas progress.
Lengthened hood, corner markers removed and molded to the body, other modifications to be done soon.

I am looking for grille suggestions all ideas appreciated

 

Before somebody says its too new- I want to say I like the work you have done here.....
ARE ya gonna clip its hair?

 

Yea I know the car is newer than most on here...... but the knowledge of the people on the hamb far exceeds any other board I have been on.
So hopefully I am somewhat excepted and can get some of the HAMBers ideas.
I will not be clippin its hair but it will be gettin a butt lift

 

Its Cool.
I had a 67 they are a nice riding car....

 

Just had the car dropped off today

 

That is a nice car. They are wicked with a chop, tho......

 

Traditional custom restyling would call for an up-scale car's grill.
So in place of the "entry-level" cheap-ass Chevy stamped aluminum grill check out some "better" car's fronts for similar "V" shapes like late 60's maybe early 700's Buicks from Skylark to LeSabre, to Riviera.
Or even some of the MoPar's like Dodge Monaco.
Reduce the bumper to just the main horizontal bar and replace the rest with a body color rolled and molded pan/valence.
Some '66 Imperial glass covered headlights maybe?

 

Thanks DrJ for the ideas
I may end up using a 67 Galaxie 500 grill
the Impala grill is temporary

 

drj, we're on the same wave length yet again...

caddy grill would be sweet, i'm soooooo glad to see the tire choice you made, it's great!

 

That grill might work but it's not any more "fancy" than the Chevy grill.
Know what I mean?
It's just different...
If you already have it, check where the Chevy grill recedes top to bottom where the Ford gill sticks out in the center, ending up looking fairly "flat" in profile.
Maybe you can cut loose the top half and flip it upside down so it too will recede lie the bottom half does?
I like grill swaps over the over done "just put a tube grill in it" non-improvement.

 

its not much just shaved, bagged, 15"supremes, louvered hood, kandy mango with a gold pearl, pinstriped, dual frenched antennas, orange flake dash and interior, organ pipe speakers, bobble head chihuahua, bellflowers, bla bla bla. any way wut my plans on the grill is a chromed twisted square tube.. yours looks killer, get 'r' done. what does clip her hair mean???

 

nice, i like it.

 

67 Buick grille would look great, and it looks like it might fit right too.

 

I've been watching the build on your car on the other board for a little bit...you do nice work, by the way......I really like the fender and hood extensions........

I have a 67 Impala too and recently aquired a complete '70 Buick Rivi' front bumper and grill...I'll be trying it out for a test fit soon.....I'll let you know how well or not...it fits...Neal

 

nice car.

 

Nice car the color is awesome
The clippin the hair remark was about choppin the top.....
Do you have any pics of the antennas?

 

turned out realy bad ass what paint did you end up useing?
how about a custom 3/8''round bar grill?

 

I like the Buick grille a lot, although the car really does look good with it's stock grille in place as shown, maybe just black out the upright bars in the stock grille?

 

I like the car. I think the stock grille's cool, it would be awesome if you swept it back more, like a shark mouth, maybe hidden headlights. Or you could go traditional lowrider and do a custom twisted chrome bar job.

Nice car, it ain't too new for my likingh, I want a '67 Rivi, bad.

 

Anthony the Imp is turning out fuckin bitchin. stance is bang on.

I think a tube grille peaked in the center to line up with the hood with curved ends would look really good. as for headlights, whats about 62 Impala? the bezels are one piece...

 

Your car looks exactly like a car my oldest bro built in `70 in east los angeles.I remember he had metal shop in school and thats where he did most of the work.He got rid of the parking lights as you did and shaved everything.He would open the door by kicking the pipe(bellflower type).It had hydros..what lowrider didn`t.Oh ya ..it had a light bar inside.Heres an idea on a grille...my bros car had a `60? mercury grille and headlights,it looked badd ass!!!That car was painted deep purple metallic by Earl shieb auto paint(29.95!!!).It was stolen in `73 at a Garfield high school football game.MEMORIES.

 

Nice lookin' ride bro, i agree with alex a tube grill would be killer.

 

MY ANTENNAS

 

sweet ...heres my 66'

 

Kool, Ya Know I've Built 40's, 50's 60's And Now I'm Into The 70's Kustoms. Alot Of Guys Here Call The 60-70's Cars "new Cars" Cause Their Not A 32. Well Hey, A Kustom Is A Kustom Is A Kustom! We've Evolved. My Next Proj Is A 30 Sedan. You Have To Love Em All. From The Words Of Rodney King...."why Cant We All Get Along?"
God Bless The Hamb!

 

anthony..the '67 looks bitchin' bro!!

 

Im all about the 60's cars, Ive got a 64 cady. The grills in the 63 64 cadys are clean. You can color match the center bar cause its painted steel. All the other bars are aluminium except the center. Check one out, I think it would look awsome.

 

Anthony, The car looks badass man! How about using a 60 Cadillac grille?...that grille all chromed out would look sick bro! with a set of rabbit ear antennas.......aahhhh shit! there goes the neighborhood!