Rusted bolts. Between my helper and me, we spent two hours getting that baby off. Had to take that filler that goes under the grille also, using a tire tool and a hammer to get it busted loose from the rusted out core support.
One of these days I can grind the bolt heads off and then will have a nice grille. My 66 has a 65 grille on it, so if anyone needs one, let me know. It will be a while before I pull it for the paint job, but it is here.
This is the third 66 grille I have attempted to buy in the last 30 days. Found a steel one (what I really wanted so I could chrome it) on ebay, won the auction, then the guy's $40 shipping price was exceeded by $80 and couldn't make the transaction work out. The Thursday I saw a NOS Ford 66 grille in the box on ebay and hit the $550 buy it now button. The guy emails and says he already sold it! What a turd. At least they both refunded the paypal payments.
