Badge or Not

I'm currently waiting to have my Inky resprayed just wondered what peoples thoughts are on De-badging YES or No and reasons please

Rear badge yes, front no

Agree, front badge looks good when new, shame they fade so fast.

Ooh!

Controversial!

Personally I'd go for badges front and back- which has proved particularly amusing as no-one can remember that era of FIAT badge- and they have to ask what the car is, anyway!

I think, to take the badges off, denies the pedigree. Makes it like a kit car, you know?

I'm very FIAT- proud! But that's just me...

I daresay there is a drag-coefficient advantage to not having the front badge!

For an Inky I'd go with a modified original badge with red stripes on the front and no badge on the back.

Keep them both.

get rid of all the badges , smoother lines without them .



I had the front badge on the car for 8/9 years and always wanted to get rid of it , now its been gone for a year I don't miss it one bit .

I've put the slightly more bold badge on the back and I think it looks quite good

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-Mk2-Punto...=item35d7344433

Ahem. When you did mine last time, you put the front badge on and left the rear badge off!

Joe was talking about de-badging Neil, leaving the front one on and rear off was his take.

The front ones do fade badly though.

De badge the rear and buy a brand new sparkley one for the bonnet.

Indeed Jasgol, I have a collection of ex-brand-new-sparkly-ones taken from my bonnet.

Could be it's time for another to join them.

There's a Spa-Francorchamps circuit map on the back.

Yes exactly, de-badge the rear and buy a new one for the bonnet, it's a bugger to have the bonnet de-badges so you can't see the recess, filler has a tendency to sink or crack, and to date the only 100% way is to fill in the recess with fresh metal.

Front ones are easy to replace but not so easy to remove with the bodywork expense. The early Punto front badge is the same part so cheap even though you find the same dealers selling both inflated for the Coupe. I removed the rear one which did look better however I was never happy with the slight amount of lacquer damage from the original one being on for over ten years so I've replaced it with an aftermarket F/I/A/T one with the Italian flag. One thing I would love to be rid of is the rear boot lock. I just think it looks so out of place and unnecessary when you have the internal release.....

Until the cable seizes/snaps and you find yourself squeezed through the ski hatch trying to pop the boot with a screwdriver.

I've done worse with an FCA group product jimbob

I debadged the front and rear of my Coupe years ago and don't regret it at all.
I like the way people look at it for a badge to see what it is

Although, I do have a FastFiat sticker in the rear window, the Fiat logo on my wheel centre caps and the steering wheel, so it shouldn't be too hard to see what it is

I like the debadged look so much that I'm having the bonnet of my Coupe swapped on to the one I'm picking up next week.

The old group //// logo is of an age now where alot of the 'yoof' of today don't know what it is anyway. I've had a few comments about my 'Maserati' even with the badges on!

I like the badges these days. Adds to the flavour I feel. Hard work getting hold of a rear badge that is the same as original. Need to go Punto badge shopping.

Done the painting of the front badge, removal of the rear badge, my coupe these days sports the original look. I like it, old school and all

Punto badge ordered, been ripped off for more ordering the 'Coupe' one, jokers.

Talking of badges my Brother bought me a nice one years ago, it was chrome backed with red lettering that looked embossed but the front part fell off and I've never found another to replace
If anyone has a link I'm be very grateful as I'd like to fit a nice new shiny badge before Le Mans next month.

My rear currently sports this one:

Isn't that uncomfortable when you sit down?

Nah, he removed the spikes and used glue.

An ex-porcupine

Never mind the 'yoof'- I've had people older than me not remember the //// badge.

I quite like that, Nello...

I guess you all know what an original faded rear badge looks like, which is good as I can't find the pic I know I have somewhere.
So, moving on. Replacing the faded rear badge, bought a one from ebay which was black and turned slowly white and delaminated in about six months. After taken off the original badge found that laquer had been sprayed around the badge. No real surprise.


Next slide is with no badge. Happy days.


This is what I have now as this moment in time. Next slide.


I have sprayed my rear quarter pinninfarina badges black. One day, whenever it does get the respary it needs I will remove these..

It is not about disguising the make of car etc etc more about things that in my mind and taste do not need to be there.

In answer to the OP which was the reason to answer, I guess.

Up to you, but yes. Yes to the bonnet badge.

What do I win?

Looking at the op date I guess we chewing could here as no response.

Anyway, I like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain. With an umbrella. Think ahead, just saying.

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Just someone posting something up and then not been bothered.

Ha!

I thought a surrealist element had started to creep into this thread..!

Tis like food. Personally I like the badges, & you do what ever you like with your own car. In saying that, a debadged Coop in sleeper form can always resurrect the....hey what kind of car is that mate!!!! in some folk.....

Just for the record, I'd rather see no badges at all compared to badges of a spurious nature. Just my thoughts.

You need to debadge it, then rebadge it with Ferrari badges.

Reasons? Because the Fiat Coupe looks a bit like a Ferrari and what better way to make people think you drive a Ferrari than to put Ferrari badges on it?

Imagine, one day you are at Tesco putting your shopping into the boot and a guy comes over.

''Nice car mate, what model is it?'' he asks.
'It's a Ferrari.'' you reply.
''Yeah, but what model?'' he asks.
''Erm...a three...thr...four...fo...you know I just picked it up yesterday, I keep forgetting the model number.''
''Let me see on Auto Trader's vehicle check'' he says taking out his phone.
''Is that Burt Reynolds?!?'' you yell out, pointing behind him.

He turns around to look and you quickly jump into your Coop and drive away.

Not spurious, it's bank gothic.

Hey JKD

If you want to stick the prancing horse on it- you bought the wrong car.

The Coupé can hold its head up high by being itself.

Anything else just plays into the 'poor mans Ferrari' jibe...


And (just to slightly deconstruct your story) nobody driving a Ferrari gets approached in carparks.

Can we still have Burt Reynolds ?

Didn't Burt Reynolds drive a car with a horse as a logo?

Was that car made by a company starting with "F" and containing four letters?

I didn't notice that until you pointed it out. I was referring to other metal type badges that really have no place on a Coop. So easy to misread things....

In a fictional world where Burt Reynolds can shop at Tesco, Ferrari drivers can also get approached in car parks.







Tom Selleck drove a car with a horse as a logo that began with an F and was seven letters.

Burt Reynolds drove/pushed a Mustang in Malone.

I'm going to keep the bonnet badge on my 'new' Coupe unless I swap the bonnet over from my old Coupe.

Today was the first time my Mum has seen the new Coupe and she asked me what the 'lines' were on the front of the bonnet

And I have had the pleasure of driving a 308 GTS as one of my fellow car club members owns a red one. We swapped cars one day and she (the owner of the 308) was amazed at how slow the other drivers were going, then realizing that the my Coupe's speedo is in MPH not KPH!

Italian flag, my Coupé

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mCuPh6...M7UbAiw=s640-no

link don't work Gimmo .

Now it should be ok

Priceless

(Link still doesn't work for me)

Yes, we can still have Burt Reynolds...

Gimmo's converted the link to the click-pic in the post above yours

I need to replace my bonnet badge for a nice shiny one. Any recommendations (so that I don't buy one from eBay which turns white / crumbles / falls apart etc. within 6 months)?

Ok everyone ive had a good think about it and I'm sticking with the original badges after the spray job cheers everyone .Shaun

Bit late to the party but when my car was resprayed i fitted a new front bonnet badge and left the rear plain
I think this is the best and easiest compromise!

Not trying to pretend its not a Fiat as it has the proper logo on the front but its easier to clean with no embossed badge on the back!

Just wish i had the Pininfarina badge holes welded up and replaced with a sticker version so again easier to clean and no future issues with leaking