Favourite Grilles

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Following on from deQ's fascination with the BMWs current grille design direction - who has thoughts on their favourite grilles through the ages?

Some that spring to mind for me are -

1967 Pontiac GTO with the stacked headlights and the inward tapering grille somehow managed to combine aggression with elegance, height with width and still looks fresh.
Bugeye Sprite. Is there a happier car?
Jag E-type lightweight. Try not to think of a guppy.
2016 Alfa Romeo Giulia. Poor old Alfa doesn't get it right like they used to but this works.
Mercedes Benz 540 K. Now that's Teutonic!
The Diana Dors Delahaye. Look at it long enough and it starts to look...err...anatomical.

That's enough to get it started.
 
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The original Mustang.
The original Shelby Cobra.
The 427 Cobra.
67 Ferrari 330 GTC and later the 246 Dino. Many F cars.
Have to add the 64 GTO, also, since my brother had one...a gold vert.
Grilles and tailfins (59 Chevy) and such always looked different when you were ten years old and vertically challenged ...
 

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Following on from deQ's fascination with the BMWs current grille design direction - who has thoughts on their favourite grilles through the ages?

Some that spring to mind for me are -

1967 Pontiac GTO with the stacked headlights and the inward tapering grille somehow managed to combine aggression with elegance, height with width and still looks fresh.
Bugeye Sprite. Is there a happier car?
Jag E-type lightweight. Try not to think of a guppy.
2016 Alfa Romeo Giulia. Poor old Alfa doesn't get it right like they used to but this works.
Mercedes Benz 540 K. Now that's Teutonic!
The Diana Dors Delahaye. Look at it long enough and it starts to look...err...anatomical.

That's enough to get it started.


good initiative, but without photos i can not follow those examples, most interested in the anatomic remembrances

....what could that possibly be ?
 

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good initiative, but without photos i can not follow those examples, most interested in the anatomic remembrances

....what could that possibly be ?
For those who lack access to internet images-

As to anatomy, well if you don't know I can't explain it, at least not on a polite public forum.
 

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You ask about grills not entire front ends.

Cobra -did they have grills??

For me:
507
300SL
Alfa Romeo up thru the 1960’s.
How about Old Bugatti’s (T35, T37, etc)?
 

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Bugattis are a close second. All these photos are from the Bugatti Tour which started at the Lime Rock Historics. The White & Blue 1937 Bugatti Stelvio by Gangloff with the BUGG license plate is Alden Sherman's he was celebrating his 100th birthday.

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And the original Giulietta Sprint grill. And I agree that the current Giulia/Stelvio grill works well stylistically also.
 

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Giulietta spider isn’t too shabby, though I prefer the early 105 Sprint grill.

I would put up an XK120 grill, mainly because it’s constructed of individual chromed and polished bits, held together with blobs of silver solder. No concession to the bean counters. And yes it is nigh impossible to keep the vanes perfectly spaced (too flexible)
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