I'm sure these won't be cheap, but thought some of you guys and gals might be interested:
Porsche is reproducing its famous crests from 1952 to 1973 for Porsche Classic customers. It's using the same materials and same exact colors from when the badges were originally created. Porsche had already been producing reproduction crests for cars built between 1974 and 1998. Now owners of older 911s and 356s will be able to pick up a fresh badge for their classic.
The history of the now well-known crest started when it was suggested as a quality seal for the Type 356 after a meeting with Ferry Porsche and United States importer Max Hoffman in 1952. The same year Porsche advertising manager Herrmann Lapper and designer Frank Xaver Reimspieβ produced a preliminary design. The pair sketched a crest that symbolized the roots of the company. The horse is from the official coat of arms for Stuttgart, it's surrounded by the reddish and black state colors and stylized antlers of the WÜrttemberg-Hohenzollern crest. Porsche script acts as a roof over the other elements.
In the original crest, the Porsche script was embossed instead of black and the red elements were more orange, reflecting the WÜrttemberg-Hohenzollern state colors more closely. The reproductions are being produced with special tools based on original drawings. Porsche uploaded video to YouTube, demonstrating some of the process.
Porsche says the crests are tested like the originals. That means usign a ballistic firign range to replicate stone chips and letting them sit for hours in the salt spray chamber.
