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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
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"
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
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"