First Edition to Heritage Grill Swap

[BlueBoy]

I wanted a more traditional look for the front-end to the Gen. 1 grills. When the heritage grills came out, I contacted @flip at Ruxer, and he hooked me up with the parts needed to make the conversion. I figured since I was doing that, I wanted a more traditional lighting look. I went with the Oracle Oculus heated lenses with the separate front marker lights. This was the closest thing I could see to swapping the lights versus placing a simple yellow lens cover over the oem light. I brought the grill to our local Caliber Collision in Hanford, CA and Roger and his crew hooked me up with a custom paint job to make it look closer to the original and matched the lightning blue perfectly.

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[Returntothefog]

Looks great!
Might’ve posted in the wrong section of the forums tho

 

[Beach_Bum]

Looks great!
Might’ve posted in the wrong section of the forums tho

Is it not an exterior modification?

 

[Returntothefog]

Is it not an exterior modification?

Oh it was in the sell/buy forum. It’s been changed

 

[BlueBoy]

@Administrator hooked me up with the right section

 

[Harry The Heritage]

I wanted a more traditional look for the front-end to the Gen. 1 grills. When the heritage grills came out, I contacted @flip at Ruxer, and he hooked me up with the parts needed to make the conversion. I figured since I was doing that, I wanted a more traditional lighting look. I went with the Oracle Oculus heated lenses with the separate front marker lights. This was the closest thing I could see to swapping the lights versus placing a simple yellow lens cover over the oem light. I brought the grill to our local Caliber Collision in Hanford, CA and Roger and his crew hooked me up with a custom paint job to make it look closer to the original and matched the lightning blue perfectly.

Heritage wannabe!!! No I’m kidding lol

Looks really good!!! The paint matched surround on the grill is perfection!!! The silver pairs really nicely with the Lightning blue

Just curious how much did they quote you on that paint matched surround? I’ve been thinking of doing that to mine

 

[DarthLincoln]

Very nice! Painting the center silver with the lightning blue surround really adds some needed visual depth to the grille. Looks great!

 

[BlueBoy]

Heritage wannabe!!! No I’m kidding lol

Looks really good!!! The paint matched surround on the grill is perfection!!! The white pairs really nicely with the Lightning blue

Just curious how much did they quote you on that paint matched surround? I’ve been thinking of doing that to mine

$875

 

[Steve_In_29]

Very nice

I've seen those lights before and really like the look but with as shitty a job as Oracle did on their tail lights I'm hesitant to try them.

Let us know how they hold up.

 

[DarthLincoln]

Is the center of the grille silver or is it white? It looks silver to me, but maybe that’s because it is in the shade on a sunny day.

 

[BlueBoy]

Silver

 

[The Green Flash]

That looks fantastic!

For someone wanting to do similar on a blue-collar budget, RPM has their 'heritage' grill on sale for like $160. A can of Automotive Touch Up brand rattlecan in Eruption Green and a clearcoat cost me another $40. I angsted a while on argent silver to match my '72, but now I'm glad I went with a Krylon dark copper instead:

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The son 3D-printed up the 'F-O-R-D' letters for the cost of a home cooked meal.

 

[BLTN]

I contacted @flip at Ruxer, and he hooked me up with the parts needed to make the conversion.

Any chance you have the parts list from @flip? Looking to do a similar thing for my BL...

 

[BlueBoy]

Any chance you have the parts list from @flip? Looking to do a similar thing for my BL...

I believe this is everything:
M2DZ-8200-HBPTMGrille
M2DZ-8A224-CAPTMEmblem
M2DZ-8A154-AABracket
M2DZ-8C324-ABPTMCap-Camera
M2DZ-19H421-AFront Camera Bracket
M2DZ-8312-ADeflector Air
-W713407-S439Grille Clip qty 2
W506973-S450BBracket Screw qty2

 

[BLTN]

Thank you much!

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