Grille Painting

[MrMarquis]

Hey there guys.

I was thinking about changing the color of my grille...Either a deep red, or black...Not sure how it'll look; I'm having problems picturing it. I was gonna try to get to the junk yard and grab a grille I could use for the new color so that I can easily revert back to the old look.

If it looks good, the trim around the headlights would come next.

How do you recommend I go about painting it?

[turbo2256b]

spray can or paint gun?

[boXman]

I'd leave it chrome...or just paint the inner slats.

[87_crown_vic]

i have an extra grille trhat i am gonna paint the slats white, and the grill on the car black. that way i can see which on i like more. i also have an extra pass. headlight bezel that i am gonna paint white and see how it looks. i am gonna change my taillights to the ones that were in Vickie since they are sprayed white except for the 4 red bars of the taillight.

[interceptor1985]

How about body color and paint the horizontal bars in the grill black?

[N A]

http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/showthread.php?t=6500

Hopefully this link works. (I couldn't find the actual pic of my paint grille). I want to do the headlight bezels in the Spring. My car is "Currant Red" and I used "Dark Toreador Red" on my grille. I scuffed the chrome. I probably should have primed it before the paint. www.paintscratch.com should have the correct color for your Grand Marquis. Good luck!!!

[MrMarquis]

http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/showthread.php?t=6500

Hopefully this link works. (I couldn't find the actual pic of my paint grille). I want to do the headlight bezels in the Spring. My car is "Currant Red" and I used "Dark Toreador Red" on my grille. I scuffed the chrome. I probably should have primed it before the paint. www.paintscratch.com should have the correct color for your Grand Marquis. Good luck!!!

Did you ever get around to painting the headlight surrounds?

[N A]

No, I didn't. I will, I'm just not sure when I will get to it.

[Mr. Land Yacht]

I used spray paint out of a can for my car...
it takes some time and patience to mask off the chrome on the headlight bezels.
the grille isn't too hard at all.

[mrltd]

Mr.Marquis...I've seen a cv/gm around westminster that is the same color as your car with the grille and headlight surrounds painted...That'd give you an idea if you saw it...

[N A]

I found a picture of my painted grille.