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Bill Young
Bill Young
Kansas City, MO
(1337 posts)

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10/23/2007 09:23AM

Main British Car:
'73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep

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Custom badges
Posted by: Bill Young
Date: December 24, 2011 10:39AM

If you ever wanted some special emblems or badges for your wheel center caps or other places on your car I have found a place in England that has what you need. I wanted some Lotus emblems for the wheel center caps on my new Revolution wheels but couldn't find any that were the correct size. Found this place on E-bay and found that I could design my own badge in a size I specified with a huge selection of colors, emblems, and even custom text for a very reasonable price. Nine custom wheel emblems, 55mm in diameter only ran a little over $60. l only needed 4, but went ahead and ordered extras in case I lose one or it gets damaged. [www.heko.co.uk]
Could do a custom one off horn button or such just as easily and you can upload your own image if you want, takes a couple of days for them to post it, but we could have had wheel caps or a horn button with the Roadmaster logo if we wanted.



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rficalora
Rob Ficalora
Willis, TX
(2764 posts)

Registered:
10/24/2007 02:46PM

Main British Car:
'76 MGB w/CB front, Sebring rear, early metal dash Ford 302

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Re: Custom badges
Posted by: rficalora
Date: December 26, 2011 09:39AM

Very Cool Bill. Post some pics when they come in.


Bill Young
Bill Young
Kansas City, MO
(1337 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 09:23AM

Main British Car:
'73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep

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Re: Custom badges
Posted by: Bill Young
Date: January 14, 2012 09:51PM

Received the badges today and got them installed. Made of a flexible resin that's about 3/32" thick with an adhesive back, they're peel and stick. I did notice that because they are thin that they will show some irregularites in the surface they are applied to. On the first center cap I hadn't completely removed the old adhesive and some of those small bumps showed in the finished emblem. The other three came out great. They are very similar to the original Revolution center emblems although the Revolution emblems were made on a thicker backing materail of thin aluminum sheet but the surface of the emblem is the same density.
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BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042
(6468 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 12:59PM

Main British Car:
1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS

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Re: Custom badges
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: January 15, 2012 09:46AM

You know, I never noticed it before, but what is the "ABCC" in the Lotus emblem for?

Jim


ex-tyke
Graham Creswick
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
(1165 posts)

Registered:
10/25/2007 11:17AM

Main British Car:
1976 MGB Ford 302

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Re: Custom badges
Posted by: ex-tyke
Date: January 15, 2012 09:58AM

From Wikipedia:

The four letters in the middle of the logo stand for the initials of company founder Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman


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