Its painted, mint condition, and is the last item that is laying around my room. It's been a month or so since I got rid of my WRX and this is the last item that I havn't sold yet. As far as I am concerned, I have a good seller rating. I can send you a pic of the grill if you want. It's painted silver with black metal meshing. You can easily paint the grill and the meshing comes off my screwing off 4 screws. I just want to get rid of this and it has been packaged for some time now. I will sell it for $40shipped OBO. Thanks.