Look what came in the mail today!
I couldn’t find an Emory Outlaw badge for sell (been looking for awhile), so I did the next best thing...I got a Tag Heuer inspired racing jacket with the 356 Outlaw patch.
-Sean
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The only Emory outlaw badges available are given by Rod to those cars he deems worthy. There aren’t too many out there. I doubt anyone would ever sell one.
There are counterfeit ones available but it’d never be the same. The jacket is cool though, I like it.
Hey One,
That is a cool jacket! Is it a Birdwell? I recently bought a similar jacket on ebay that is probably the best made thing I have ever seen. The problem is, it is way too warm for SoCal. Saving it for retirement and the move East.
Fellow JPS owner that hopes to cross paths with your car someday,
Brian
Like @Robert M, I think the jacket is cool and all, but any one that has anything to do with this hobby (original or replica) knows that Emory's Outlaw badges are earned, not bought. And as Robert also said, if honored and actually given one by Rod(?) Emory, it's not something you're going to turn around and sell. If you're really ok with buying a fake crest and putting it on your car, go for it.
Has he ever bestowed one to a Replica?... Doubt it. It is a great logo, would prolly run one if it were available. Just wearin' the shirt for now.
RacerX posted:Has he ever bestowed one to a Replica?... Doubt it. It is a great logo...
Not that I know of.
My understanding is that Rod Emory doesn't "bestow" these on cars he likes. They are provided to cars that go through his companies restoration process into "outlaw" configurations.
He did give one to the white coupe that was a subject of an Overhaulin' episode, but he and and one of his guys could be seen all through the episode working on the car with Foose' team so that apparently qualified.
I have become less and less comfortable with having any badging on my car that labels it as something it isn't.
Sometimes I'm not sure what it is, but I know it isn't a Porsche.
The iconic body shape is enough on it's own. I could care less what anybody else does, and I don't see this as a good/evil, honesty/dishonesty issue, but more one of taste. I absolutely appreciate a faithful recreation of a 356 and understand the desire to make one of these cars all that it can be, whatever direction that takes.
Just my $.02, of no value to anybody but myself.
I did see a video of him "Giving " an outlaw badge to a later model 1960 356 that he liked at SEMA (Built by Deluxe Customs). There are many similar Bird type logo's that are available and being used by the VW crowd. Probably wouldn't be stepping on anyone's pride by flying one of those.
Robert M and RACERX:
I was dead wrong and you were 100% correct. I looked up the 2017 Deluxe Customs 356 SEMA event where Rod Emory "bestowed" "presented" "knighted" the car with the badge. Thanks, I've learned something this morning.
Birdwell makes them... Emory used to sell directly ( I attended an event where they had them on display for sale)... but I think they now re- direct you to Birdwell who sell them under their “custom” jacket line on their web site... you define colors, stripes, collar, etc... and they put the patch ( licensed by Emory). 160$ is what I remember. They are bulletproof well made coats, and surf shorts!!!
I lived in Birdwell's in the 70's. Everything is made in Santa Ana, California if I recall. One of those iconic brands to come out of SoCal, like Van's.
Yep, it’s a Birdwell Britches Custom Racing jacket
I was unaware of the honor bestowed to those that received an Emory badge. A knock-off on my knock-off Coupe would be like me trying to pass off the Coupe as the real deal.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge gentlemen!
I like badges and the Emory Outlaw badge is cool but what's coolest is when people or clubs make their own badge and bestow it with meaning. This club has done that several times, I think, and those badges ought to go on all our cars.
As for fakery and its dishonor: guilty. Bridget sports both a New England T Registry badge, which I scored on ebay, AND a (low) numbered T Registry brass dashboard plaque,* which I peeled off a trashed original TD dash which I scored on ebay.
She's also got a "Brooklands School of Flying" badge which I just think is cool but would probably offend someone...and a "TD Replica.com" badge which some guys from TDReplica.com had made a few years back. Very rare! Quite ugly!
So far, no one's ever made an issue of my badge bogusness but I guess that's because Little British Car enthusiasts are maybe slightly more laid back, in general, than our Porschephile brethren. Still, if anyone ever called me out for the T registry badge I'd have to bow my head in shame.
I have a PCA badge someone left on the Carlisle raffle table a few years ago but I don't think I'll put it on the Spyder, pretty as it is. Maybe there's room for one more weird and inappropriate badge on Bridget?
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*In my defense, I did contact the T Registry to see about returning the plaque to its rightful owner, but they informed me they have no records that could match the plaque number to any car or member. It also hides an imperfection in my dashboard mosaic.
Your sins are absolved. Say three Our Fathers and four Hail Marys and, for goodness sake, quit masturbadging, as it will make you go blind.
I believe it was Ryan in NorCal (?) that mentioned putting a new Badge together that was a bit more, what is the word, Race oriented, edgy, aggressive. It might just turn out better than anything out there. Now I would fly that for sure!
You guys attending the Tour de Smo' ought to be able to come up with a great badge. Lots to work with! Twisties, mountains, trees, speeding tickets and barbeque!
Panhandle Bob posted:You guys attending the Tour de Smo' ought to be able to come up with a great badge. Lots to work with! Twisties, mountains, trees, speeding tickets and barbeque!
Perhaps a banjo, some missing teeth, and a fire pit. Maybe 10 empty hotel rooms. And Lane's dachshunds... we can't forget the dachshunds, rotting there in doggie prison.
How about it @Rich Drewek? Let's get on it, Wisco Ricky.
Wisco Ricky is busy admiring his newest acquisition, a gorgeous Karmann Ghia.
I told him he needs to open "The Wisco Ricky Eclectic Car Museum and Thai Restaurant"
Their motto should be; "Where the Pad Thai never hits the upholstery"
I love that guy!
I propose that the badge feature a "Jed Clampett" type guy behind the wheel of an airborne Speedster with a Pine tree and a mountain behind him. He should be hoisting a bottle of moonshine in his right hand and a barbequed rib in his left.
The lettering should read something like: 2018 Tour De Smo' We Grilled the Dragon!
Tell me again why you aren't coming? 
Panhandle Bob posted:I propose that the badge feature a "Jed Clampett" type guy behind the wheel of an airborne Speedster with a Pine tree and a mountain behind him. He should be hoisting a bottle of moonshine in his right hand and a barbequed rib in his left.
The lettering should read something like: 2018 Tour De Smo' We Grilled the Dragon!
I think I might have a “ Mountain Dew” font on file that would fit the bill ....
I'll be there in spirit!!!
"Wisco Ricky" LOL. There was some coffee spitting going on up here just now!
Unlike some other people, we are packing today. See you Wednesday, Stan.
ALB posted:Like @Robert M, I think the jacket is cool and all, but any one that has anything to do with this hobby (original or replica) knows that Emory's Outlaw badges are earned, not bought. And as Robert also said, if honored and actually given one by Rod(?) Emory, it's not something you're going to turn around and sell. If you're really ok with buying a fake crest and putting it on your car, go for it.
I would think most people who receive one would be interested enough with keeping the car period in every way that they might opt to frame it and hang in their garage.
Sorry, Ron P, I think you miss the point. Anyone who is that interested in "keeping the car period in every way" would be unlikely to get an Outlaw badge from Emory, either Gary or Rod. They are all about mods, many of which are subtle, but still mods. Gary was called the Outlaw when he turned his back on the Porsche purists and began modifying 356's before Rod was born.
Jim Kelly posted:Sorry, Ron P, I think you miss the point. Anyone who is that interested in "keeping the car period in every way" would be unlikely to get an Outlaw badge from Emory, either Gary or Rod. They are all about mods, many of which are subtle, but still mods. Gary was called the Outlaw when he turned his back on the Porsche purists and began modifying 356's before Rod was born.
Had no idea who he was or what he did. Found his website, skimmed it, and seeing this "restored to better-than-factory standards from its metal unibody and exterior to its mechanicals and interior," concluded he focused on restoring to standard. Thanks for the info.
