Where can I find this grille for my Dart Sport?

[MRGTX]

My '73 (318 powered) Dart Sport has the unpainted grille but I have always loved the black one like the gorgeous car in the attached (borrowed) picture.

Can anyone point to a source to this part?

If they're hard to come by, would it be possible to replicate this part by masking/painting a stanard grille?

Thanks for any tips.

 

[Bad Sport]

Don't know if they make one, I just painted mine.

 

[Princess Valiant]

i have never heard of two separate grills for any year of dart sport .....that is a painted regular grille .....i dont think it left the factory like that, but it was definately painted in good taste .....looks great:cheers:

 

[Rengo]

I have a stock silver grille but it will need work and of course paint. If you want to rebuild the grille you have, find a sand blaster and set it to the lowest setting and get quite a ways back to "sprinkle" the blast on to the grille, this will strip the paint and not cause any damage to the grille, then primer and paint, put everything back on and there you go.

 

[Mopar to ya]

That is a stock grill blacked out and painted. My brother just bought a Dart Sport with a completely blacked out grill. He took a silver paint pen and drew those exact lines on his. He also has yellow lens tape inside the turn signal lenses. It looks awesome.

 

[Bulldozer]

That is a stock grill blacked out and painted.

exactly

 

[mopardrt]

all 73-74 dart grilles are argent

 

[VDART]

you already have it-- get out the paint & tape & show us the results!!, looks good. Lawrence

 

[Mopar to ya]

Here is my brother's when he bought it, and it was all blacked out. I am seeing him tonight and will get some pics of the silver paint lines. I gotta say, I'm digging the yellow turn signals.
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[Saetun]

That is a stock grill blacked out and painted. My brother just bought a Dart Sport with a completely blacked out grill. He took a silver paint pen and drew those exact lines on his. He also has yellow lens tape inside the turn signal lenses. It looks awesome.

Mopar, any chance you can shoot a pic of his grille? I'd like to check that out.


Edit: Oh I guess I should have kept reading....

 

[Mopar to ya]

Mopar, any chance you can shoot a pic of his grille? I'd like to check that out.


Edit: Oh I guess I should have kept reading....

I will tonight. We are meeting at American Motorsports for the Hot Rod Humpday car show. Very small, but kind of cool.

 

[MRGTX]

Thanks, guys! Great info.
I always assumed this must have been an option or something exclusive to 340 cars. It definitley brings the look of the 73+ Darts in line with the high-po machines from eariler model years.

So I'd definitely buy a second one before painting. My policy for my Dart is that any mod has to be reversible...and screwing up and ruining the perfectly good stock grille would be tragic.

J4R3D,
I'll send you a PM.

 

[briankaplan]

Kind of like this grille. It's the 999K option. Thats when you special paint
it yourself.

 

[MRGTX]

Kind of like this grille. It's the 999K option. Thats when you special paint
it yourself.

"999k" looks great on your Duster!
What kind of paint?

 

[Bulldozer]

Kind of like this grille. It's the 999K option. Thats when you special paint
it yourself.

mine has the optional 989K headlight bucket blackout treatment LOL

 

[Mopar to ya]

Okay, he did the one stripe across the middle. He wants to change it to just the two stripes across the middle to the turn signal lenses. Here is what he did so far.
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[Kikowillers]

Well, it's not a Duster but its a grille painted at home.

I went with 3 coats of primer, sanded it back and then applied gloss black from a spray can, a least 6-7 coats 15-20 minutes apart if I remember we'll. And masked all the shiny bits very carefully.

My tip would be to remove the grilled and take your time to prep it well. And use proper blue tape for the sharp lines, masking tape will not give you perfect edges.

Cheers!

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[Robj]

I painted my '70 grill and used thin tape from a full service hobby shop. It came in two widths. One was the exact thickness of the lines I had to mask. It was really nice for taping around curves because it was thin and flexible and it gave very sharp edges. Really sealed nice. I used it on the curved edges and then wider tape to fill.