grill badges

I would like to install one or two grill badges on my speedster.
Does anyone know of sources for grill badges? Thanks, Bill

www.tweeks.com I belive they have some.

I've shopped eBay, and there are some different ones available on eBay's German site.
Happy hunting.

Try These guys;

stores.ebay.com/CAR-BADGES-AND-NY-SOUVENIRS-GALORE

Or these guys:

germancarbadge.com/

Theron,

Do you know anything about the "Speedster Owners" Grille Badge I saw sometime back on the site?

Some of us may be interested.

Jack

Jack, I have one of the SOC badges and I think it's neat. A while back there was some talk about striking a new one, but it died away. Also, there was some negative comments about the what the badge said. It was questionable in my mind too, but I think the design won in the voting because it was the best design offered at that time.

That was a limited production badge. It worked out well when we got over 100 preorders. The badge was struck and shipped out to the owners. For all the work it doesn't really pay the bills, but it is a nice feature for the site.

There is another badge in the works. As soon as we have more details I will post them.
-=theron

Theron,

My 2 cents, Maybe a round,oval badge with a neat background and a simple S O C in large letters. Keep the verage down to either none or very little.

Bruce

Not really fancy but something like this might be nice
Troy

Troy,
I like where your heading, but how about no color, just outlines

I just did a quickie copy/past etc. I Like the outline idea better also. I'm not artist enough to do it. The picture in the VS manual recently posted by Theron might work but there are probably lots of non-copyrighted stuff around. I'll leave it to the artists from here.
Troy

Gentlemen,

I'm sure everyone has a good idea, but this is exactly what killed the second badge- design by committee. Two and a half years ago, this was a BIG discussion topic. Theron has a new badge in the works- I'm sure it will be great, and will probably not say "Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse". Thankfully.

BTW- I've got the original badge in my tool chest. It looks great, but it has a motto I cannot subscribe to as a prominant feature. email me, and I'll see if I can hunt it up.

Wow I have had my cretivity stomped on. I have always felt it is better to do something rather than sit around and wait for someone else. But............................

Then I'd recommend you do it. I didn't mean to stomp on anybody's anything. Last time- everybody had a hand in deciding on the badge, and then nobody really liked it. A nice simple design that was actually produced and sold by someone would be really welcome. Dream on...

I am wondering what a simple "line art" representation of the profile of a Speedster might look like on a badge. I thought, on the fiftieth anniversary badge, the whole thing was a bit difficult to visualize because of the complexity of the representation. The Nike "swoosh" has become a readily recognizable logo because of it's immediate recognizability and it's simplicity.

Maybe the profile with the distinctive script "Speedster" under the fenders and window sill, with a wreath containing the Speedster Owners
Association would be acceptable. (The speedster profile, and the script could be the raised brass of the badge).

How about "Welcome to the Madness"?

Stan--I agree with you about the motto. Certainly does not reflect my outlook but to each his own.

I'd rather be here enjoyiong my life rather than be like James Dean who is taking a dirt nap.

I'm just sayin'.

I like 'Welcome to the Madness'

U GUYS ARE ALL OUT OF IT
IF THIS SITE COMES UP WITH A NEW BADGE IT SHOULD STATE

WELCOME TO
GERD AND VINCE'S
HOME AWAY FROM HOME

This fellow has great stuff and reasonably priced, eBay seller name:
michael_keil

He also sells decals from the era which is kinda fun to use on our cars.
Going to German eBay is fun, they call 'em plakettes (sp?) and you can find all sorts of travel, event or affiliation-related grille badges as well as cool trophy memorbilia.

In the IMHO-department, grille badges can also be afixed to the side of the car above the carriage builder plaque or dashboard too... This is where the madness can really kick-in (my trunk got a little carried away) but these cars were sporting cars and attended and participated in driving events. Badges are part of their pedigree.

Lived Fast, Got Old, Plan to be Creamated, WTF

I have only had limited response to the grill badge I propose for Morro Bay this year. A few have already sent in checks. What about the rest of you. Is there enough interest in this badge to go forward with production planning?

Dusty

Dusty, make it a red wide body outlaw with nerf bars and I'll buy one, maybe two...

I would love to buy a generic club badge, but not interested in the event badge. If anyone has an old one to sell, I'm interested.

Tom's comment X2

Yeh, decals...

How about simply re-issuing the original badge? The art work is already done!

Oh ya...decals....we don't need no stinki'n decals.

I agree with Vince, but make it a blue widebody! ;-)

Due to the very low response to the grill badge idea I have brought that project to an end. Thanks to those few who supported it. I have put refund checks in the mail.

Maybe someone will come up with a sash to display the name badges from Morro Bay each year??

Happy Trails,
Dusty and the LMS