Road Runner Nest

What would be the correct color of the bottom (silver) portion of the grille. Is it gray, silver, argent of something else. And I'm pretty sure it is not textured. Can anyone confirm that.

Thanks

I think it's actually a two-tone argent/flat black combo. Argent runs across the bottom lip of the grill and inside the headlight bezels. Flat black is for the rest of the grill for the Road Runner and GTX.

I think Satellite grills were painted all argent.

Would that be the light argent or dark argent??

On an original grill, the black part is not painted, it's black plastic. If you paint the black area I'd use something with at least some gloss to mimic bare plastic, I have a NOS center section and the black area has a pretty good gloss to it, the silver is a fairly light argent (not textured). In comparison, my original grill is much darker. Seems they must have discolored quite a bit with exposure to the elements.
Hope this helps

Thanks Eric, the grill I have is a fairly dark grey also. It appears original with no hints of someone messing with it. I am going to try some light argent paint when the weather gets a little warmer. I'm going to leave the black alone if it cleans up OK. I'll post a picture when done.

I just refinished a 71 grill...I used Krylon Fusion paint "METALLIC NICKEL SHIMMER" for the argent??

I have a virtually nos grill center (like eric) and the color was "SO CLOSE"

Also I used the satin black fusion paint for the rest of the grille...not too
shiny not too flat....it looked great I must say.

try it...you'll like it....scott

(Fusion is specially made to stick to plastics)(the satin black is great for
"hard" plastic interior parts)

I will look into that paint. I was going to use some light argent paint that I bought but never used with some plastic adhesion promoter I also have. But I will look tomorrow when I go to NAPA as they have the Krylon line of paints. Thanks