Modified Horn Grills for S/T

[Milou]

I need help. In my ST project, I'm not sure what to do about the horn grills. I could leave them, remove them or modify them. What do you suggest? Any pixs out there of cool modified ones?thanks for your help.

[nick-moss]

All my pics of STs show either standard horn grills, or no grillls at all.

[Milou]

Thanks Nick,

Here are pictures of an ST with modified grills. The car is the one Walter Rohrl uses in a rally video and the basis for our ST project as it's apparently a very reliable and known ST. It's in the garage where I'm having the ST built:








Are you familiar with these headlights and are they original?

[Paul Schooley]

Hmmmm...expanded metal with edging around it??? I wonder if that was an early attempt at weight reduction.

[preS]

Milou,

How do you know it's original and not home made? I do not know much about LWB but I tend to believe that the headlights are not appropriate either? I would expect H1 or H4 and not those 65-68 lights?

Richard

[Milou]

The car is a historic ST, quite well known and having won a number of historic events. Not sure about the grills or the lights, they could have been added later though....

[nick-moss]

The car is a historic ST

But its not to original is it? In the video it says it has a 3.0 RSR slide throttle motor doesn't it? The headlamps look like the ones fitted to very early SWB 911s, I probably have a pair available.

[Zithlord]

Historic factory picture of ST

[bob tilton]

I've seen this before and even made a set for my car at one time. I used the grill screen from a 65-68.5 decklid grill and the same edging used for the rear quarter windows. I know that some people have even used rain gutter screens to fabricate a set.

[Milou]

Thanks for the info. I guess the mesh on the orange ST is larger and comes from a later grille. What did you use as a frame? I's like to reproduce them and can probably find the grille and the 3/4 window material, but then what?