how much is too much

[lee]

How much would you be willing to pay for a good 69 charger grill

[terrible one]

It really depends on what you mean by good. Just the plastic, or the metal frame too? I've seen good complete grills go on E-bay for $1k and such. There are a lot of different factors here. I would try to find something off this board.

[lee]

I did and it was well over a 1000 and still needed some work

[no318]

I know of a guy that restores them and had one for $1500.  It was VERY nice, though.  I have seen GOOD cores for $1000.  That need cleaned and painted and trim polished and such.

[NYCMille]

I just got lucky and paid $500 for a real nice 68' to have as a spare, but I have seen them go for as much as $1500.00

[Chad L. Magee]

I am in the process of possibly repoping some of the second gen Charger grilles ( the plastic parts at least for myself first, then.....).  I gave $250 for three busted 69 grilles (that can be used to make two good grilles, with one complete with all the trim and housing).  I recently paid $50 for busted shards of an outside shell of a 70 grille that I can use to fix three other grilles.  The 68 Charger project I just bought had the most mint 68 grille I have ever seen on a field car.  BTW-I have seen a complete 69 Charger grille (mint resto) go for as high as $2000 and sell shortly after........  If you think that is bad, try a 71 Cuda grille......

[Silver R/T]

depends on condition, Ive paid $400 for decent 68 grille about year ago. It has some cracks and paint could use refinishing

[1fine69]

you know what i have paid up to 1000 for a really really super nice one tha everything worked on it cause it came with everything. then i have been lucky an scored nice JUST grills anywhere from a low of 120 to 600   

[Mike DC]

 
The sky is the limit on the price of these things.  All the factors point to contuning escalation in price until some repros come out.

--  People are still putting more old Chargers back together that need them, and the supply of decent used ones isn't growing. 
--  The grille is extremely visible so nobody is willing to go without a very good-looking one on their finished car.
--  You can't really home-make it from scratch, and even doing a patch job on a busted one still demands about 95% of an original grille to work with.

And if the reproduction company eventually spends a lot of money to tool-up a repro, but they cut corners somewhere or the they don't bother to make it look & fit perfectly . . . then the price of the used grilles will probably NEVER go down again.