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forum_emoticons.html	[quote=ingo,23101]When I was a small boy and strolling around with my bicycle, I always had looked for abandoned cars (to wrecking small parts of them). If a car in Germany is standing on the public street without license-plates, it will get sooner or later a big red (somewhere green or yellow) sticker on the windshield from the authority, that it must be brought away, otherwise it will be wrecked by them. These stickers are inofficially named "Take-what-you-need-sticker" :) For that I always had two tools in my jacket or my school-bag: a small screw-driver (for the badges) and an original VW-tool (a small bended "U") for pulling off hubcaps. Later on, when I was older and have visited junk-yards, I still had these tools with me. After 3-4 years of "active junkyard travelling" I had a quite big box full with -mainly metal- badges (the size of this box was like one for an actual fax-machine). Later, when the cars on the junkyards were getting too modern for me, and when the badges were mostly from plastic and fixed with glue (so ugly to dismount), I stopped that hobby. In the following years I've sold them on flea- or classic-car-markets. Easy earned money, because I must admit, that i've never paid money on the junkyards for them - I've always stolen them :D One time, the junkyard-guy didn't want to give me one badge, even not for money. It was in Denver/Colorado on a yard, specialized on European cars - and the badge was from my one and only top dream-car: a "6.3" :([/quote]
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toyota_fantic

Hi will you sell the 84 Toyota Camry hood ornament you got? Does it have the base and mounting parts? Thank you for your time! :smile:[email] [/email[email]][/email]

Eugene
clubimg@hotmail.com

ingo

In the area, where I live, several people have bought actual Mercedes-Benz badge-letters and have fixed at their cars (not only Benzes). They have "S 04" - it's the logo of the popular soccer-club FC Schalke 04.

ingo

My parents told me, that I've learned to read before I came into the school - by car-badges. When we made walks around, I was only interested in the cars standing in the street and wanted to identify them. So I've hardly tried to read the letters of the badges.

At my last visit of a good friend (he has 4 little children), the oldest, 8-years-old boy has tried to combinate words with letters of VW-bagdes (the newer ones have single letters). His father owns a spare-part-shop.
He was not satisfied, because he needed some "E"'s and "N"'s.
His parents weren't happy, when I got the idea, how to help the child: "Hey, your neighbour can be helpful" (a popular German actor http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_du_Mont ).
A Phaeton stands in front of his house. :smile:

ingo

Try it, but before watch similar auctions. Badges belong the parts, where eBay has caused much lower prices than before.

Toenz

Ok, thanks for the identification. Now I'm sure it was a Passat (in popular light green). I doubted, because the pics I found online all showed the later plastic emblem. Do you think it's profitable to sell on eBay?

ingo

@Toenz: these aluminium-badges were used for the Passat, the Scirocco and the Golf, but only in their first year of production. Then plastic ones were taken.

Toenz

I just found a Volkswagen badge, which I removed from an abandoned car, when I was a kid (about 20 years ago). I can't recall the model, maybe Passat B1? (made of metal, two pins on the back side, size ca. 22 x 2 cm).
Ingo, do you have an idea?

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6038/vwsn3.th.jpg

taxiguy

Hmmmm... what a nice challenge :smile:

Escape grill:

http://www.innerauto.com/includes/images/Inner_Auto/Ford_Parts/Ford_Parts_1/Ford_Escpe_Grill.jpg

Crown Victoria grill:

http://www.1aauto.com/scripts/view_full_image.php?image_url=http://images.1aauto- .com/pics/plp/EV2567992.jpg&description_id=631173

:think:

could be either really...

MBSL65fan

Escape and Crown Victoria is possible.

Wampa-One

I found this on the side of the street, apparently there had been an accident. I picked it up thinking it was maybe from a Crown Vic, but now I am leaning towards thinking it was from an Escape. Any other possibilities of what it could be?

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/210/dscn9155vt9.th.jpg

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/72/dscn9156hd0.th.jpg