Hey gents, thanks for your time!
It was indeed painted grey and the spike is longer as one would expect.
The base is one of a removable spike, but the spike it self doesn't have the feature of one.
I can't get it off...need more force to do it and that might dammage something.....
Not sure when the paint job was done.
Not planing to change anything, exept maybe a smal fixing of the front trim.