| Author | Message | ||
     Colin Silver Experienced User Username: colsilver Post Number: 24 Registered: 8-2008 |
I've come across a Grille for sale - said to be circa 1956 Rolls Royce. These are the only pictures I have. Looking at my 1955 Rolls Royce, the pictures aren't showing the soldered/welded "RR" logo I have. Possibly it was removed when the Spirit of Ectasy was. Any opinions welcomed.    | ||
| Richard Treacy Grand Master Username: richard_treacy Post Number: 1559 Registered: 4-2003 |
It can hardly be a genuine one. Count the vanes: it is two short. See also the folded-over front of the shell: that is completely wrong. The seams between the top and the sides look a bit out at first glance. The proportions look quite wrong too, but that may be due to the photo. I suppose it's on the dreaded Ebay like all other junk. R.  | ||
| Mernon Lollich Experienced User Username: mernon_lollich Post Number: 26 Registered: 5-2005 |
In addition to Richard's comments, the side panels are much too wide on the lower half and have holes drilled which shouldn't be there. Perhaps made for a Bentley to RR "conversion"? I'll attempt to attach a photo of the correct shell. Mernon LSJF72 | ||
| Mernon Lollich Experienced User Username: mernon_lollich Post Number: 27 Registered: 5-2005 |
Will try again! | ||
| Mernon Lollich Experienced User Username: mernon_lollich Post Number: 28 Registered: 5-2005 |
Sorry - my trying to post photos is a lesson in frustration. The picture WAS of my grille off the car. Mernon | ||
| Colin Silver Experienced User Username: colsilver Post Number: 25 Registered: 8-2008 |
Don't give up on us Mernon. I'd love to see your picture/s. I'm hoping the grille being sold is not a reproduction being passed off innocently as a genuine. I'm just the sort of 'noob' who wouldn't know genuine from repro. | ||
| Richard Treacy Grand Master Username: richard_treacy Post Number: 1560 Registered: 4-2003 |
Mernon, In your photo editor, reduce the picture to (width by height) 640x480 pixels, that's 8.89 x 6.67 inches or 225 x 169 millimetres, postcard size. Save it under a new name to upload. The file should be 100kB. It will upload and post then. ps: the genuine R-R grille will bolt onto a Bentley. The only misfit is the bonnet line for all cars before the Silver Spirit - SZs. The SZs are the first Crewe cars where the Bentley and Rolls-Royce models have identical bonnets. Read, the bonnet on an SZ doesn't really fit either a Bentley or a Rolls-Royce properly. It is a compromise between the R-R hard-chine and Bentley curved-seam bonnet line. RT. | ||
| Colin Silver Experienced User Username: colsilver Post Number: 29 Registered: 8-2008 |
Mernon, don't give up - fight the I.T. barrier. I'll phone you over the internet, wherever you are, and help you get your pics up. I only pay 1.2c a minute, or AUD0.72 an hour. I think you are worth that.  (Message edited by colsilver on 07 January 2009) | ||
| Colin Silver Experienced User Username: colsilver Post Number: 30 Registered: 8-2008 |
Sold on eBay for AUD795.00. Hope the buyer has done his/her homework and is happy, whatever be grille's history. |
