Found an ultra rare JC Whitney 55 Buick chrome bullnose grille emblem and mounted it up to see how it looked.
Overall it looks pretty decent, but I won’t be using it. The GMC emblem looks much more truck like and fits the area nicer. After that I spent 4 hours in the garage fitting the 59 GMC horn button, fabricating brackets, prepping for paint, etc.
The GMC horn button/center emblem turned out to be chrome plated rather than stainless steel, so after scuffing with a Scotchbrite pad it was shot with UPOL Acid #8 etch primer followed by 3 coats of Rustoleum gloss white enamel. It’s finished. The grille bar was shot with etch primer and coated with UPOL high fill 2K primer. Tomorrow it will be block sanded and painted. No pictures yet. If all goes well the whole thing will be completed and installed this weekend.
And by the way, the ultra rare chrome center shown above – is nothing more than a spare chrome dome oil fill cap!
