A genuine ADAC badge on Ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Porsche-356-Pre-war-badge-German-Nazy-rally-badge_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ42606QQitemZ4576068035QQrdZ1

DDAC . . . ?
Pre-war 356 badge . . . ?
60 plus years old in that condition for a car that didn't exist for a rally that was never held and an insurance
company with different initials . . .

Man, I HOPE that it ISN'T a fake! If someone's manufacturing and selling NEW nazi crap to stick on the engine
grills of NEW 356's, it just sounds like a bad thing about to happen.

Don't like it one bit. Nope . . . not at all . . .

The pictured badge looks too good to be original. What kind of demented individual would display a nazi badge anyway?

It does look like it's in too good of shape to be original, but it is possible. The DDAC was/is a German ladies driving club. Go ahead Google it, some great pics of Damen from the "good old days". Now I'm not sure what the history of the "swastika" (spelling?) is, but I think it is possible that it didn't always have bad connotations. If someone can enlighten the group, I'd like to know more about it.

It seems to be someone who doesn't really know what they have. And in light of the events preceeding and during WWII, I think it's in poor taste to be marketing it the way they are.

The swastika was used as a symbol by many organisations, before the Nazi party commandeered it. A local sporting organisation here in Canada, around the turn of the century and into the early 1900's, had the Swastika as their emblem. They quickly changed from that when the Nazi party came into power.

The symbol itself is not abhorrent, but the use of it by a certain political group was.

Wow! A great way to alienate and offend people... and get your car keyed, create your own Prince Harry scandal on a local level. Pre-war
means pre-Porsche, More like a KDF or Auto Union. Rememember, Porsche
number 1 was built in 1948. Get the ADAC badge (Swastica free).

Swastika was a native american peace symbol for centuries. It's all but disappeared because of the more common Nazi meaning.

Team Evil raises a great point, how do you have a pre-war Porsche anything?
Unless he is referring to Gulf War.

-=theron

As a symbol, the swastika goes back a lot farther than that.
Doesn't anybody "Google" anymore?

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

I used to 'google', but now save my energies for more productive activities. Thankfully, I don't need Viagra or Cialis for that, contrary to the daily emails I get.

I know, I'm off topic.

Maybe this is one thread that NEEDS to stray Off-Topic.

If we're gonna talk about badges at all, let's discus the "corpse" badge, we haven't done THAT in a while.
What's it been, now . . . four . . . five days . . .? ? ?

Oh yeah, if anybody has one for sale....I'll take three. Thanks TC. I used to love that thread.