Unlike the 70 Chevelles, the 69's (as well as I believe all previous years) use lots of rivets to hold the grille and brackets onto the nose of the car. Our 69 used a total of 9 rivets. Fortunately the rivets can be found at most hardware stores. Ours came from Ace hardware. Unfortunately they require a special tool to roll the edges of the rivet. In some cases like the upper brackets you cannot even get a tool in that area. I believe GM likely used a hand held crimping type rivet tool as opposed to one that required impacting it. We customized a tool to use on the upper rivets and I will show that later. For the bottom and center rivets we used a conventional peening tool. The one pictured is mounting the center of the bumper filler to the vertical hood latch support. Notice the small photo of the rivet tool in the last photo.
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