The center of my grill was painted a satin black with
 two pin stripe around the grill.
 Ed 
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themixtoo@aol.com wrote: 
 > Ok, lets try this another way. I think the 'new'
 > question is...What color is the inner section that
 > would normaly be called the grille? On '70.5 thru
 > '73 the grille and the headlight surround section
 > were all one
 piece. On the years with an X model
 > available the grille surround section was painted
 > the color of the car and the inner section (where
 > the air gets thru to the radiator was painted flat
 > black or a satin black with a double pinstripe the
 > color of the side body stripe outlining it. All
 > other models the grille surround was a silver gray
 > and the inner section was a darker gray with no
 > pinstripe around it. Starting in late '73 AMC
 > changed the front grille/headlight surround to a
 > three piece unit and these are not involved in the
 > original question. Hope this helps. Gary 'TheMix2'
 > 
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: 
martin-davis@sbcglobal.net > To: 
BaadAssGremlins@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 6:26
 AM
 > Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Grill Colors
 > 
 > 
 > Terry,
 > If you go to the Year Models link at the top of the
 > gremlinx.com sight, it lists each year 70-78 and
 > there is a factory brosure picture of each one.
 > Every one shows the X mode, and from 72 to 76 you
 > can clearly see that the grille is body color. The X
 > package wasn't available till 72. I don't really
 > know much about the 77-78 models. I have
 > concentrated on 70-76 for the last 20 years. It is
 > always best to look at factory info when looking for
 > this sort of info and not readers rides or cars at
 > shows.
 > 
 > Davis 
 > 
 > 
twa1950@yahoo.com wrote:
 > OK I have a dumb question. I looked at the site you
 > gave me and if you read the differences between the
 > X and the plain Gremlin it says the Grill was
 color
 > coordinated. Question were the grills suppose to be
 > the same color as the car or did they have silver on
 > the cross members. I looked at all the pictures of
 > the cars and granted there are quite a few that
 > aren't X's on there but either I am color blind or I
 > just don't see them being the same color as the car.
 > Even the guy's who runs the site has a silver grill
 > in his car. Not that it really matters but I must be
 > missing something.
 > Terry
 > 
 > Davis Martin <
martin-davis@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 > Thank you Sir
 > 
 > Robert <
baddassgremlin@aol.com> wrote: 
 > Ok, I dug through my stuff and found my original
 > 1973 sales brochure. 
 > In print it states the color coordinated grill came
 > with the "X" 
 >
 package. After reading everything on standard and
 > optional equipment 
 > that came with the 1973 Gremlin, it never mentions
 > anything about 
 > the "silver" grill. So, Davis, I would say that you
 > are correct in your 
 > comment about the dealers putting the cheaper
 > "silver" grill on cars 
 > that might have had the original grill broken before
 > they were sold. 
 > Thanks, Bob in MN.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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