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topside, the paint details Macho detailed are correct per my two used grilles and my one NOS one, one used is from a 72 Twister, one is from a 71 340 Duster, both identical. The black areas on two are natural as molded black ABS plastic, the silver is a fine metallic smooth finish with no texture and no noticable gloss "dull satin" would be a good description. However.....One of the grilles was molded in gray ABS plastic and has the black areas painted black rather than bare plastic. I'll take some pictures of both and post them.

All of the grilles were masked with a fixture that allowed some light over spray (no sharp edges or build up on transitions between slver and black, silver fogged under/beyond the mask in many transistional areas). 71 & 72 Marker lamp wire pig tails were slightly different but interchange freely, most won't know one from the other but they are unique.

Notice how the grille above has one headlight bezel with an adjuster screw relief and one side without? I've never seen an 1970 with the relief style so I'm assuming that they started adding the feature during 71 production sometime, I've seen original 71's with one side of each, with both sides reliefed, and some with no reliefs. It was a pig in a poke as to what cars got which, probably a transition that took place due to an engineering change during 1971 production, one of the original Twisters I recently had was built in June of 1971 and had one of each.

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Thats what I noticed with these two.

What type of epoxy would you recommend for fixing fins, mounting tabs, etc?

My body supplies place is good, but their advice can be expensive

I need to find a good 2 part epoxy or something to fix all the structural issues, before I start the refinishing process

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I found some stuff at my local Autozone. It was called Plastic Weld and it was an epoxy especially formulated for ABS. It was about the consistency of toothpaste and it did not sag like JB Weld does. Really strong stuff when you let it cure.