Obviosuly I'm new to this game, and want to hear peoples opinions on having a 7 on the grill of a car that obviously aint a Lotus or a Caterham.

Is this viewed as chavy?

Cheeky?

Cool?

Your opinions please.

If you have an MK it HAS to have the MK grill!

imo of course!!

quote:

---

Originally posted by iscmatt
If you have an MK it HAS to have the MK grill!

imo of course!!

---

Do some locosts not have a badge with an upside down 7 to look like an L ??

maybe one on a grill would look good?

This is if if you dont like the 7 yourself. At the end of the day its your car, doesn't matter what anyone else says if you're happy with it then thats fine!!

To answer your question more directly though;

Not sure it would chavvy but some people might think you were trying to fake 'it'?

I designed my own grill and had it lazer cut - some say naff - I say individual! (Used it on the windscreen mounts as well)


http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/photos.php?action=showphoto&photo=Shamrock3.jpg


cheers

Gary

[Edited on 8/9/07 by Shamrock GS]

Yours looks good! A 7 on the grille looks, ahem, naff. I think that would be the word. Definition #2 I think would do.

Wiki:

Naff is primarily British slang, although it is also in common usage in Australia and other former British colonies (but not CANADA!!!). It has several meanings:

* Something which is seen to be particularly "cheesy" or "tacky" or in otherwise poor aesthetic taste. An example of a sentence in which it might be used is, "Did you see that American Chopper repeat on the TV last night? I've never seen such naff programme!". It seems particularly to be used in relation to interior décor, furniture, furnishings, clichéed popular artwork, clothing, accessories, and the like. ("That's a naff tie." "That 1970s wallpaper is really naff."

* The word can also be used to describe something that is poorly thought out, doesn't really work, or is otherwise not very good. This usage is similar to that above, but focuses less on aesthetics and more on adequacy to the task. An example might be to say of a poor or irrelevant example offered in an argument that, "That's a really naff example." Another example might be to say, "That remote control has a really naff user interface."

The word naff also has a strong sense of nothingness and many think it is making a comeback into modern day 21st century society.

* A general curse word, which gained widespread usage in the 1970s, when the word was used in the TV series Porridge, in order to get around television censorship at the time. The word was also famously attributed to being used by Princess Anne towards press photographers, in which she is said to have told them to "Naff off". However it is widely thought that she actually told the photographers to "Fuck off", which the press decided to print in this milder form.[1] The verb "naff" can be conjugated and used in the same way as the verb "fuck", in the sense of meaning to go away, as for example in the phrase, "I was in the bar with the guys from work, but after an hour or so Mike and Susie naffed off" (i.e. those two left the bar and went somewhere else)

This is what i was thinking of, get this laser cut to make a grill

Here we go this is what you need, it is just an upside down caterham grill





Available here;

Cateringvan Grill

Used an inverted 7 in my locost grill badge , the seven replaced the L . Made from a piece of 3mm ally off cut using a woodwork coping saw and a little bit of time. Design by Chris G

I will probably make my own logo and grill. Should stop the idiots saying 'nice kit car'

Nice "kit car" mate .........did you just bolt it all together?

Alex

just a thought how about a lexus l of there grill looks ok to me as we have one in our work carpark

I dont see a problem with the 7 badges are they are 7 replicas.

quote:

---

Originally posted by 2b_pablo
I dont see a problem with the 7 badges are they are 7 replicas.

---

well thats a little different, one is built from scratch to replicate a classic car.

the other is a jap piece of crap with 1/2 ton of fibreglass isoponed on.