Driving the Regal today, on a poker straight and level road at approx. 55MPH, there was a loud BUMP like it had just hit an animal. Hearing something go under the car, I looked in the rearview mirror, seeing a dark colored rectangular object.
After pulling over, I got out expecting the lower valance/air deflector to be missing somehow, but before I had a chance to kneel down to look under the front of the car, amazingly, the grille was completely gone.
Luckily, the area I was in was a rural stretch, but as cars came upon the grille laying in the middle of the road, I motioned them to slow down. Surprisingly, everyone slowed down and was paying attention, which is usually not the case.
This is so hard to understand what happened. The grille/car were untampered with and everything was mounted as was from the factory. Interestingly enough, not far from this incident about 2 years ago, while parked at a salvage yard with numerous G-bodies, the same grille was kicked/punched off it's mounting tabs by presumably the yard owner (still trying to figure that one out, real shame).
Has anyone else had problems with their grille before? Somehow mine wiggled itself off the header panel backwards, fell between the bumper and radiator support, then out and under the car without damaging anything else. All 3 bolts tightly affixed to j-clips are still on the grille. Perhaps some sort of recall was put out at some point?
This was on a 1986 Regal Limited. Grille was in perfect alignment, as securely attached as could be.
After pulling over, I got out expecting the lower valance/air deflector to be missing somehow, but before I had a chance to kneel down to look under the front of the car, amazingly, the grille was completely gone.
Luckily, the area I was in was a rural stretch, but as cars came upon the grille laying in the middle of the road, I motioned them to slow down. Surprisingly, everyone slowed down and was paying attention, which is usually not the case.
This is so hard to understand what happened. The grille/car were untampered with and everything was mounted as was from the factory. Interestingly enough, not far from this incident about 2 years ago, while parked at a salvage yard with numerous G-bodies, the same grille was kicked/punched off it's mounting tabs by presumably the yard owner (still trying to figure that one out, real shame).
Has anyone else had problems with their grille before? Somehow mine wiggled itself off the header panel backwards, fell between the bumper and radiator support, then out and under the car without damaging anything else. All 3 bolts tightly affixed to j-clips are still on the grille. Perhaps some sort of recall was put out at some point?
This was on a 1986 Regal Limited. Grille was in perfect alignment, as securely attached as could be.
