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Styla Front Grille
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:24 pm
by timmy201
I've just bought this on ebay
Apparently NOS in the box, never fitted!
I've found it in one of Mark's catalogues (what an excellent resource!), made by Styla. That's the only one I've been able to find so far.
Has anyone ever seen one of these fitted to a car? I'll have to wait a couple of days until it turns up to see what it'll look like on my car...
Re: Styla Front Grille
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:28 pm
by rich@minispares.com
that's awesome
it does look a bit like the lid of a disposable BBQ though......
Re: Styla Front Grille
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:48 pm
by surfblue63
Great find.
I thought it looked like some old window frames with some that expanded metal you get in Halfords stuck in them.
Re: Styla Front Grille
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:44 pm
by mk1
Super Accessories, not Styla.
http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/super_acc.htm
Very nice find all the same.
Re: Styla Front Grille
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 9:13 pm
by Goldbrocade_62
Bep on the side of the box was mini kingdom in Milperra he had a pile of them I almost bought one but changed my mind
Re: Styla Front Grille
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:13 pm
by timmy201
rich@minispares.com wrote:that's awesome
it does look a bit like the lid of a disposable BBQ though......
I don't think I've ever seen a disposable BBQ before until now! And it does look just like this grille. What has be seen cannot be unseen
surfblue63 wrote:Great find.
I thought it looked like some old window frames with some that expanded metal you get in Halfords stuck in them.
It does look like that too! It must be pretty old too, judging from the catalogue images.
It was in two Super Accessory catalogues... The other one had "Styla Accessories" written on it
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And it's also in the Styla catalogue. I'm guessing that they were made by Styla and also sold by Super Accessories (or vice versa) ? I'd been wondering about the flat panel at the back there, but it makes sense if it's a distributor shield..
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Goldbrocade_62 wrote:Bep on the side of the box was mini kingdom in Milperra he had a pile of them I almost bought one but changed my mind
That must have been where this one came from. I wonder how many other ones he had?
Re: Styla Front Grille
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 12:06 am
by Tim
timmy201 wrote:
Goldbrocade_62 wrote:Bep on the side of the box was mini kingdom in Milperra he had a pile of them I almost bought one but changed my mind
That must have been where this one came from. I wonder how many other ones he had?
I went in there in the early nineties when I was up in Sydney for work and met John Smidt. He had a big pile of those grilles, I reckon he'd had them from new. They were cheap - but they looked it too! As I recall he also had a pile of those horrible goldy coloured hubcaps (probably like "G" in the brochure above) which had the same same badge in the middle. Back then they just looked outdated, cheap and nasty, with the passing of time they've become sort of retro kitsch, but I don't think I'd use them on my car
You know, he may still have some...
Tim
Re: Styla Front Grille
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:08 am
by mk1
Interesting that!
I wasn't aware of a tie up between Styla & Super.
This needs some research
Re: Styla Front Grille
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:30 am
by timmy201
mk1 wrote:Interesting that!
I wasn't aware of a tie up between Styla & Super.
This needs some research
There you go, there is always something more to learn
The grille turned up last week.. It's not the most solid thing ever made, but at least it is shiny! As you might have noticed from the pictures, none of the holes line up to screw it onto a car, and I'm not keen on drilling holes to make it fit. I'm sending it back from whence it came (eBay), and hopefully someone will like it..