Odd S3 grill - what am I looking at?

[NoBeardNoTopKnot]

See this grill at 4:55 in.


It's not a Maltese Cross. What am I looking at? Looks too good to be any home-brew. Is this one of those 'some parts must be home-market made' jobbies?

[22900013A]

Australian market grille, it was part of the requirement that a certain % was local manufacture on ckd vehicles.

[NoBeardNoTopKnot]

Ah, thanks Dan. I was nearly right.

[whitehillbilly64]

Yes, common S2a Grille here in Aus.
Comments on the AULRO Forum.
The 4 2a Grille's used. 2xAus 2xUk

1. The Australian special grilles were chrome plated, but this did not last long.

2. They only appeared in the late sixties as part of the push to look a bit flasher to compete with the Jap ones that had begun to appear.

whitehillbilly

[biloxi]

As shown in the pictures.
.W,

[NoBeardNoTopKnot]

Mine manages to sport a Santana bulkhead / odd and sods / badging from its time in Spain. I'll swap my 'Maltese cross' for its strine variant tomorrow. A Spanish/ Aussie / Brit bitsa appeals  to me. Purely because it's different. No doubt it'd give rivet-counters a conniption.

[Alan Drover]

Is the rumour true that Australians didn't like the plastic grill because it couldn't be used for barbecuing?

[DogDave]

Is the rumour true that Australians didn't like the plastic grill because it couldn't be used for barbecuing?

I've definitely heard that before as well - can't remember where though.

[Exile]

Purely because it's different. No doubt it'd give rivet-counters a conniption.

Believe me Topknot, most genuiune rivet-counters wouldn't gve a monkeys what you do to your bitsa.

We prefer to talk to fellow RC's, than argue with hybridisers.

[22900013A]

Is the rumour true that Australians didn't like the plastic grill because it couldn't be used for barbecuing?

Probably just an urban legend as the fumes from heated galvanise are highly poisonous.

[Alan Drover]

That's my thought too.

[diffwhine]

There is truth in it. What they did (and we did in Africa as well), was heat the grille up first in a fire so the galvanised coating burned off. Then use it as a grille. Because it's such a hot dry environment, they don't rust like they would here. Once the galvanised coating is burned off, they do make good grilles..

[NoBeardNoTopKnot]

Is the rumour true that Australians didn't like the plastic grill because it couldn't be used for barbecuing?

Like fairies at the bottom of the garden, Father Christmas, and the Loch Ness monster, never say it isn't.


If I was an Aussie, it'd be made a point of national-pride. We make all telephone calls from red boxes; 'Everything stops for tea'; "It's foggy in London" et al.

[Alan Drover]

When was the last time you made a call from a red telephone box?

[GlenAnderson]

When was the last time you made a call from a red telephone box?

Around 1998 I think. Certainly the last regular calls from a red box were in 1997, but I got my first mobile in '98 and that changed everything.