I took the grille out of the car. Just four screws at the top and then reach in and depress the six clips that hold it in at the bottom. Then I washed and dried it. I did not remove the silver colored strips. I painted over them. I used Valspar (Lowes) plastic (for lawn furniture etc.) spray paint. It said on the can that no priming was necessary and it guarantees against flaking and chipping. (We'll see if that is indeed the case.) I put on three thin coats about 10 minutes apart. Waited about 30 minutes and mounted it back on the car. If I do add the strips back to the front, I'm going to use chrome trim, so that it will match the chrome emblem on the hood. There is a thread somewhere from someone who did that. I gotta say though, for my taste, the all black looks good.

I'm thinking about tinting the headlights. I think it might look good with the grille. I tried once about two months ago, got pissed off and screwed up the film and ended up throwing it in the trash. It seems that I sometimes have the attention span of a gnat.