well they'll just have to deal with it. I just checked out a place that restores older aluminum grilles here in OKC, and it appears that they can fix mine for about what it'd cost to just buy one that is in as good of shape as mine is....even after the crash. keep in mind the only thing that it really did to the grill is put a bulge in the lower few bars, it didn't really SMASH it all up. so I called the ins. company and they said that they'd check it out.
and BTW, if I take my grill to them (with the headlight doors, and all) they will strip, fix, repolish to near chrome finish, bright anodize, and warrant the finish for one year!!!!! they also said that I'll need to bring the new headlight door to them and have it done to match, as 90% of the aftermarket parts only look as good as factory finish, which isn't even close to how good it looks when they get done with it. this impressed me enough to see if they can get all my lower mouldings done as well!!!
it's now up to the ins company to get back with me on payment for the damages, so...............
-Ken
'68 grill
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