After providing conversions to for Cerbera he proposed a more daring conversion, that of changing the front styling of the Griffith. It's not just a style upgrade either - the lamps provide significantly better lighting too.

The "mouth" has been reshaped into a classic oval (symmetrical in both the horizontal axis and vertical axis). The opening is now filled with a strong woven stainless steel mesh to give the radiator protection from stones (missing on the standard Griff 500). The area open for air passage has been increased over the standard G500 which will assist in cooling.

The radius of the grille ends is designed to fit Hella's new driving or fog lamps which will be available by the end of 2000. These match the 90mm headlamps used in the Zertec conversion and would result in a diagonal row of three lamps giving a family resemblance to the new Tuscan.

Although this car is pictured without a front number plate a standard size plate can fit in the centre of the grille and is held in place on the mesh with bolts and washers.

The lights fitted to this car are the split halogen (dipped beam) and HID (main beam). A comparison of the lights' output can be seen in one of the images.

Ideally the grille conversion would be done at the same time as the headlamp change but it can be done separately or even with the standard faired-in lights. In this case the standard main beam lights would be replaced by the Hella main beam units at each end of the grille. It would be considerably cheaper to do both the headlamps and grille at the same time (only one paint job required).

Prices for the headlamp conversions are the same as for the Cerbera (see www.zertec.co.uk ). Prices for the grille are to be announced but given Zertec's pricing it should be very reasonable.