[Spridgets] AH Spares Bugeye Grill

[HealeyRick]

The problem, Mike, is you ordered a grill, which is fine for cooking slabs
of raw meat over a dung fire, instead of a grille, which goes on the front
of a bugeye.

Best always,
Rick Neville

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 9:55 PM Michael MacLean via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> The Bugeye grill on the car now is the re-chromed original.  When I had
> the car repainted for the 2008 Lake of the Ozarks 50th the body shop was
> heavy handed and the top most pin was pulled so hard to install the speed
> nut it cracked the metal of the grill around it.  Not super evident until
> you get close.  Up close you can see the crack at the peak of the grill.
>      I bought a replacement grill from AH Spares and it arrived today.
> First of all, it is a bad pressing that lacks the detail at the top edge.
> On the original there is a definite border edge.  The repro has no such
> detail.  Maybe not important to some people, but it bugs me.  Second, the
> grill came bent at the bottom.  See picture below.  Both ends bent like
> this.  The chrome is cracked at the bend also. Glad I didn't spring for the
> high quality show chrome version.
> Mike MacLean
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