Here is a reference picture. Apart from it having Major Havoc art this is what the marquee should look like. I notice in the front pic that the grille seems to be a generic round perferated sheet like you find on a lot of common speaker grilles.

I notice in the back pic that there is what appears to be cardboard covering the speaker grille. I am guessing that is to prevent light from shining through the grille.

Here is my marquee. It's not too visible in this picture, but there are actually two recessed areas. One is for the backglass and one is for the speaker grille. They sit in recessed channels so that when the overlay is on the whole thing appears flush.

Obviously you can see that there was a section cut out on the left. This section supported the speaker grille. I can also see that the recessed channel for the grille is not as deep as for the backglass, meaning that the grille material is thinner.

Here is the replacement T section I made. I used some brass hardware to connect it to the marquee. I just made a template from where the stubs of the original T were.

I used my Dremel router to route the front to 2 different depths. The glass insert is about 3/16 deep, but the grille secton is only about 1/16. The dremel isn't the most precise tool, so I need to spend a little more time getting the front just right.

Here is the marquee, ready for a little sanding and some finishing touches to the T section.

I now have a clean, ready for paint marquee! Everything fits perfectly in it. Now all I need is to paint it black and buy/install repro marquee art to end up with a beautiful marquee!

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