Need Grill assembly help....

[burrpenick]

Bought the car with new fiberglass fenders already hung, no headlight buckets or grill in, but I did get them. Now I am trying to figure out how to mount the grill. I have located the 4 bolts across the top and one on the lower center, but I have no filler pan installed, and it lookes like the grill has a square slot on each end that would slide over some support. I got what looked like a filler panel but since I have the glass fenders things dont look familier. I know I;ll have to mount the headlight buckets but getting the grill hung in the right place is first. I need some picture.....it there a filler panel under the grill, and if so, how does it attach to the inner fenders? Maybe I am wrong on the square supports on each lower end of the grill but it would seem to need some sort of support to hold it up.

Thanks, George

[360 'CUDA]

No lower filler panel in '71.
Is your header panel fiberglass too? If it is I recommend chucking it and using a steel stock one. It doesn't weigh much and it will locate your grille and hold it correctly.  I don't have any pics of the lower mounts but it sounds to me like you might have to build something...

I tried a glass header panel in the past but it just flopped around and let the fenders flop around too.( not good for expensive grilles)   A steel one reinforces and triangulates the whole front end nicely

[burrpenick]

My header is the stock steel one, and my car  is a 72. I got this panel with the parts and it doesnt seem to fit anyway. I can see the grill hangs by 5 screws and and I can see the one in the center at the bottom side, but nothing at the bottom on each end. I can see a small square hole near the ends at the bottom that I guessed something was supposed to slide into for support, but, now that I think about it, there were two pieces broken off my grill (I have them to re attach) and now I bet they are the ones that have mounting holes for support! I'll check them out tonight, now for reattaching, I was thinking of fiberglass cloth, should I use screws and strips of thin metal underneath?

Thanks, George