{"id":3554,"date":"2023-02-28T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2023-02-28T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:21:18","slug":"slightly-less-redneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2023\/02\/28\/slightly-less-redneck\/","title":{"rendered":"Slightly Less Redneck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So this is technically a 1965-66 grille, which means it fits slightly differently than a 1963 grille. What this means is that it’s a tight squeeze on the top and bottom; I had to use a set of vice-grips with a wide paddle jaw to bend the mounting surfaces inward to get it to fit. The big issue are on the sides, next to the headlights, where the sheet metal isn’t recessed to fit the edges of the grille. It may be that this is a temporary fix until I can lay hands on a 1963 grille, which is concave and indented on either side. Or, maybe I can source a 1964 grille shell to replace this one, which is pretty crispy on the passenger side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So this is technically a 1965-66 grille, which means it fits slightly differently than a 1963 grille. What this means is that it’s a tight squeeze on the top and bottom; I had to use a set of vice-grips with a wide paddle jaw to bend the mounting surfaces inward to get it to fit. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-Vk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}