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Old Dec 16, 2006 | 05:46 PM
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Default Re: CTD-Germany Custom Front Grill Group Buy

Originally Posted by SRT SIX
The Bentley I saw recently looked like it had a mesh grill from a distance. Upon close inspection, it was actually a heavy cast grill with the appearance of mesh.
Not wishing to take anything away from Tino as he's been doing a fantastic job with the grill and invested a lot of time and effort and also reacted to the initial criticism to give people what they want. But just for clarification the Bentley grill is not just a simple mesh mesh, it looks and feels like chromed injection moulded plastic to me, albeit of exceptional quality. I went to the Bentley dealership some time ago to take some pics and check it out. (posted the pics here somewhere, but can't find the thread!) I'm sure Tino's version will also be of the highest quality but replicating the Bentley 3D 'mesh would be prohiitively expensive in terms of tooling.

Here are the pics again:
Looking head on the grill does indeed look like mesh...

But in actual fact it is much more complex than that...


 
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