Original Front Grill?

[VeloceWhippet]

I saw this Stratos last weekend in Monterey California at the RM Auction.
It was a very well used race car.
Was this an original front grill? I've never noticed another one like this.


Regrettably, I didn't take lots of pictures of the car.

[ProtoTipo]

The grill is a one off.
'Looks like it has a Ferrari gear lever too, which isn't standard. Apart from the 1240 and 0003 cars.

[ProtoTipo]

Sold for 471k pounds.

[hollytree]

When I was still working (Building Engineering) I had to interview people when they applied for jobs.
To ensure some sort of consistency we had written a sheet of a dozen or so questions.
To lighten the interview tension, one of the questions I had written was "What's the difference between a grill and a diffuser".

A grille (with an 'e') is an air terminal device (supply or extract) that discharges or removes air from a space with little or no mixing with adjacent air.
A diffuser supplies air into the space in very specific controlled way(s) with to ensure mixing with adjacent air to minimize hot jets/cold draughts etc.

New graduates would really struggle with this as they had rarely encountered these things in real world applications.
They would try all sorts of explanations until I said, the answer is "you can't make toast on a diffuser"..............boom boom

You could get a feeling if they would make good employees depending on how they reacted.

Steve

[sdebez]

Can I Pinch your joke

Sach.

[Normb666]

My dad was a diffuser during the war. He was in the Bomb Squad....used to defuse em. (Actually he was in the Navy, but that's what I'd have replied ....along with, "Grill" is what you do to interviewees)

[VeloceWhippet]

The grill is a one off.
'Looks like it has a Ferrari gear lever too, which isn't standard. Apart from the 1240 and 0003 cars.

Thank you.