Grill swap

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81waggy
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Grill swap

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So here's the situation: I've got an 81 Wagoneer limited, no woodgrain and will eventually paint it burnt metallic orange with a white roof. It's got the original pig nose grill but it's in rough shape. Not terrible, but it's cracked, peeling etc.

I have a near perfect razor grill and round headlight buckets that I could put on it, but right now I'm missing the hood bar

Or

I could track down a muscle grill from a similar year Cherokee.

The muscle grill is less fabrication to make it fit, but the razor grill looks so much better. Thoughts?
81 Wagoneer with a TBI 350 Vortec.
83 Wagoneer - 360 Quadratrac
69 Wagoneer - 350 Diesel trail rig
70 Wagoneer - 1414x
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az chip
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Re: Grill swap

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Do what makes YOU happy.
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66stepside
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Re: Grill swap

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az chip wrote:Do what makes YOU happy.
Truth.

Also, the Muscle Grill is less common due to production years. So if you can find an inexpensive one, swap it in.

You can always swap in what you happen to have on hand?
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