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I made the experience, that it depends on the brand, how easy a badge is to remount. O.k., I'm talking only about the old style metal-badged, fixed with metal-pins in the body, not about plastic stuff, ounted with glue.
VW and Audi was easy to get -except the "5 E" or "5 T"-badges of the Audi Typ 43 (100 and 200 in Europe, 5000 in the USA).
Mercedes Benz was o.k., but you have to know, that the star on the trunk-hood is fixed with a screw in the middle, so only to remount from the inside.
Opel and Ford were as easy as VW, Fiat and especially Renault was worse. Some metal Renault-badges were fixed with glue, too, so you have to be wrking a bit trickier with your screwdriver.
At Japanese cars these glue-fixed plastic badges were common at first - mostly ugly to handle with them.
@taxiguy: if you have the chance to visit an old junkyard (resp. a yard with old cars) in our area, you should try to find these old metal-badges, which dealers have mounted on the cars they've sold. Sure, it was common in the 50ies and 60ies, but sometimes you can find them.
You can make real money with them! The freaks are very crazy for them.
These chromated or aluminium-dealer-badges were popular in America, less in Europe. Over here some dealers in the 60ies and 70ies had thin aluminium-plates, which were used like bumper-stickers. It's nearly impossible to remount them, very ugly, if you want to save them.
VW and Audi was easy to get -except the "5 E" or "5 T"-badges of the Audi Typ 43 (100 and 200 in Europe, 5000 in the USA).
Mercedes Benz was o.k., but you have to know, that the star on the trunk-hood is fixed with a screw in the middle, so only to remount from the inside.
Opel and Ford were as easy as VW, Fiat and especially Renault was worse. Some metal Renault-badges were fixed with glue, too, so you have to be wrking a bit trickier with your screwdriver.
At Japanese cars these glue-fixed plastic badges were common at first - mostly ugly to handle with them.
@taxiguy: if you have the chance to visit an old junkyard (resp. a yard with old cars) in our area, you should try to find these old metal-badges, which dealers have mounted on the cars they've sold. Sure, it was common in the 50ies and 60ies, but sometimes you can find them.
You can make real money with them! The freaks are very crazy for them.
These chromated or aluminium-dealer-badges were popular in America, less in Europe. Over here some dealers in the 60ies and 70ies had thin aluminium-plates, which were used like bumper-stickers. It's nearly impossible to remount them, very ugly, if you want to save them.