Grill Surround Wall Art

[dpreston Virginia]

I had a crack in my grill surround that i replaced from the Classic Center and it was gathering dust in my basement.
Decided to see if I could collect enough parts to have a complete grill to hang in my garage.
I started with a "Wanted to buy"  post on our web site looking for the wings, barrel and star in not so good condition.
I had a barrel with a crack donated to my cause.
Then had a reply to my posting about an ebay listing with the wings, which I purchased for cheap. Looked terrible in the posting but cleaned up easily.
So below is photos of the parts I had to make the grill and the finished product. It actually looks good enough to put on a driver level car.
The total cost was $170.
Now I just have to decide where to hang it up.
Thanks to Jon and Tyler for helping me out with parts and advice.

David

[waltklatt]

Why not put a pair of older used headlights on both sides and wire them up to make a conversation piece.
Just saw a show where and old bullet nosed Studebaker front end was cut off and fixed up to become a wall mount sink.
Walter

[Mike Hughes]

Now all you have to do to make a real cool wall mount is get a piece of plywood, paint is flat black and mount your grille to it.  When you are done run a length low voltage light string around the recess on the back side of the grille surround and barrel and plug it in.  You will have a really neat lighting effect when you hang it behind the bar in your a dimly lit "man cave!"

[dpreston Virginia]

Good suggestions.
Ill have to decide if I just hang from the ceiling or try to mount on the wall. To mount I would need to take some plywood and make a cut out for the grill.
The angle of the grill would make the wall mount interesting to build.

[Mike Hughes]

What I was describing does not involve cutting out a hole and mounting the grille flush in a piece of plywood (which would require significant woodworking skills, to say the least!), but rather mounting it so that it "floats" out from the flat surface of the plywood.  The lighting I was suggesting reflects off of the backside of the grille and barrel onto the black painted surface of the plywood such that the grille appears to be floating on a pool of light.