Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Need Creative Suggestions

[<eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't let it discourage you, I have a 79-80 AMX grill on my 81 Eagle (copper 
one in photo) a 79-80 AMX grill on my 88 Eagle (silver one in photo) and a 
early Concord grill on my 82 Eagle (white one in photo). I simply don't like 
the eggcrate grills the eagles had. These alternative grills are bolt ons, 
no mods, and I like to black them out as seen in the photo. The only one you 
can 'see behind' is the 81 copper colored Eagle, and you can see the hood 
latch brace. My suggestion might be to black it out, it is easy to do. 
Floating turn signals are not a bad thing if done right. More suggestions 
might be fog lights like the factory ones shown on the copper Eagle here. 
Or, you could put some nice emblem on the grill. Suggestions since this is a 
Gremlin I believe we are talking about(?) is get a small "gremlin man" metal 
emblem and center it in the grill. The old style 'gremlin script' emblems 
are great and metal. Better than the cheesy ones I believe AMC started using 
in 1974. The earlier ones are about 8-10 inches long and one could be offset 
as you see on the white 82 Eagle here, or the silver Eagle. The big round 
ornament on the silver Eagle in the center came off a Spirit. Very 
attractive piece of bling-bling. And all were easy to attach to the grill, 
and have withstood now several years of Texas summers, including our current 
furnace, been about 96 the past week every day. Good luck, I might have some 
of these old style used Gremlin emblmes in stock also.

Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "paxiljunki" <paxiljunki@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 1:57 PM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Need Creative Suggestions


> the plastic grille on my 78 gremlin was broken and a
> previous owner had replaced it with a piece of metal
> from another car. i replaced the fugly metal piece
> with a do-it-yourself expanded aluminum grille. it
> took some time and patience, but i cut the aluminum
> mesh down to size and placed the turn signal lights in
> it.
>
> what i didn't realize is that by painting it black,
> everything behind the grille would be visible in
> certain lighting situations. d'oh! the turn signals
> seem to be floating in front of a very ugly hood latch
> and radiator. this also draws attention to the crooked
> positioning of the lights, which i can fix if i choose
> to mess with the aluminum mesh some more.
>
> this is bothering me a lot. i should have left it in
> all it's blingy glory (the aluminum mesh looked pretty
> good). i could repaint it a shiny fake metal color,
> but it will just be one more layer of craptacularness.
> so instead, i'm brainstorming the creation of some
> sort of emblem to attach to the center of the grille
> to distract the viewer from the dirty radiator
> goodness behind it.
>
> any suggestions for creatively solving this ugly
> problem?  i'd rather not buy another grille kit.  and
> i really didn't like the original grilles for the
> 77-78 gremlin, so buying one of those isn't a
> solution.
>
> did amc make any really big logo emblems?  AMC?  AMC
> colors?  a big gremlin?
>
> -pax (kicking herself)
>
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