Holy Crap ! ! ! !

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=386566

Are you kiddin' me ? ! ? ! ? ! ? !

I know these are kind of rare and hard to find, but I never thought they were that rare. Of course, I have been trying to locate one for a few years now without any luck. I wonder how much he got out of the other one that he sold.

I better go insure mine ASAP!

OK, I couldn't find a price in the ad. How much was it?
ed

$275 -but hey, he's throwing in the shipping! angela

Was that badge sold at a Barrett-Jackson auction or what?

LOL! This crys out for a replica of the original replica badge! Who would know the difference from a vintage $275 badge from a $25 replica? And who would care?

Sounds fishy to me. Come on......$275!!

That's like pocket change.

Hey!
Mine's been up for sale for about a year!
$20,000 and it comes with a Speedster attached!

Greg

This is a joke right?

It's not a joke. People are willing to pay $20,000 and up for fiberglass "cars" with no modern safety features that are being cranked out as fast as possible....but $275 for a limited edition car badge that is apparently never going to be reproduced is ridiculous?

Supply and demand....that is just plain and simple economics.

"that is apparently never going to be reproduced"

Maybe it isn't . . . maybe it is.

Either way, isn't it time to bring back the dreaded "Corpse Badge" thread? It HAS been a few months, and I like to keep this a quarterly event.

Clarification: I meant the badge.

I'm in for a new replica Corpse Badge if they start to make them again. Seems like if we went to the same company that made them originally there would be no setup and it would be easy for them to produce.

Hey, if we want to put the "Dreaded Thread" back into play here, I can join it again!
My Corpse Badge went to Katy, Texas, in exchange for a monster of an apple pie! Darn good pie, I might add. It took an entire engine company to eat that sum'bitch.

And I got a set of hood straps for that badge,

that went to Cory who got a pie for that badge,

that went to Katy who . . .

Cory...did you get 275.00 worth in apples on that apple pie? lol~Esther

Best darned apple pie I've ever had.
But I ate it following a consult with my good Doktor in Massachussetts, if I remember correctly.
Besides, it seemed at the time like Michael needed some good cheer.
What's this one up to? (I can't 'see' the auction.)

Cory,
Looks like he deleted the ad. He either sold it or he decided he wouldn't be able to sleep at night if he sold it for that much.
If anyone else has an extra one, I have a lot of extra speedster and VW motor parts in the garage that I can do some swapping with. It is getting about time to make a little bit of room in the garage so I can actually find my speedster and get it done for Carlisle.
Jim

I guess I will just stick with this badge. I'll buy a Corpse Badge if they ever start making them again.

Aaaah yes. The other way to die young and leave a beautiful corpse.

Holy Crap is right, here is the badge that a lot of guys here say they would like to have, a friend of mine offered two badges to the members on this board, he couldn't get anyone to make a decent offer on the two of them , so he called me and asked if I would like to buy them. Sure, I 'll take them, for more than was offered here. Viv is an old friend that uses my chassis for his cars and we trade a few things back and forth. So I am doing a bit of house cleaning and wondered why I bought them, posted one on thesamba.com and sold it for 125 in an hour. A guy told his buddy about it and the buddy bought it, then the guy sees the second one for sale for 250, calls me up and says he should have bought the first one he turned his buddy onto, I told him he could buy it for 100, since he sold the first one for me, with a couple of stammers, he declines and says "maybe later". so it sits on thesamba for a couple of months, no takers, and thinking it was probably priced too low, I added another 25 bucks to it, and an instant "will buy" comes thru. You just gotta find the right price point for anything you are selling, and I only knew of one NOS "corpes" badge available, mine, so what is the going rate for one? apparently 275, with the shipping included, Angela. It went to Hawaii. AND I have two other people wanting badges if I can find other new old stock ones.
The price for having the badge made is about 30 bucks, order 100, who would like to step up and buy the batch. IF you can get around the copyright. And using speedstersowners.com name on it. I'll take one or two when you get it together and stop talking about it and just make a few.
There will be a new "corpes" badge out beore long.
Can you imagine what a NOS speedster would bring? probably more than the couple of thou back in 57.
David Barrett

"so what is the going rate for one? apparently 275"

Cory,

To paraphrase the "five dollar shake", that MUST have been one h#ll of a pie ! ! I KNOW that the straps were worth it, I just checked them to be sure, but . . . a PIE ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ?

TC, there's a reason the song goes 'Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Speedster Replicas."
It's as American as any apple pie I ever ate. Besides, the guy who was cooking that shift was the senior medic, and they got slammed with three calls in a row while the first apple pie was in the oven. Nobody realized it until the pie was burnt until one guy off the ladder truck said, 'Hey, what smells like burnt pie?"
I said, "Hang on there, fellas. I have one in my freezer at home that came from a guy in Katy, Texas. I promise -- it'll be the best apple pie ever."
I went to my house and got it.
Turned out it was deeeee-licious, and it saved dessert, too.
It was worth every penny I didn't get for the corpse badge; supply and demand. We needed the pie. I just didn't realize it when I gave the badge away and got rewarded with a monster confection!

How many of us remember when they were for sale here, or wherever here was? What were they, $35?

Hey Jack!
Good to see you here, thought maybe you had won a Lottery or sum'in :)
~Alan