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Offline noschevys

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best way to refinish grill
« on: December 28, 2008 - 09:51:15 AM »
What methods have you found to be the best tp refinsh the grille on a 71 challenger, remove paint, etc.  And does anybody have detailed pictures of a 71 challenger R/T grille?




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Re: best way to refinish grill
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2008 - 03:32:02 PM »
R/T or Argent grille?
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Re: best way to refinish grill
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2008 - 03:49:13 PM »
argent to be made into RT grille

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Re: best way to refinish grill
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2008 - 05:20:42 PM »
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Re: best way to refinish grill
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2008 - 07:53:09 PM »
Might want to check this thread out.  Only bad part is that the pics are looooooooooooong gone.

http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=17878.15

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Re: best way to refinish grill
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2008 - 08:27:27 PM »
Thanks, I was hoping for some correct RT pics.  Also, I searched for days, and still can't see where to get the correct rivets.  I don't want to go thru all the trouble of restoring the grille correctly, only to put it back together wrong.

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Re: best way to refinish grill
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2008 - 09:07:12 PM »
You gotta sand all the argent off of the grille, but since a R/T Grille is un-painted black, nothing will look 100% correct. 

So far, no one I know has found 100% correct plastic rivets either.

I used semi-gloss black to made my non-R/T to a R/T grille for the black parts.

Good luck
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71 Challenger R/T Clone
69 Charger R/T SE
70 Barracuda
74 Dart Swinger
93 RamCharger
88 Caprice Classic Brougham