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944 badging types?

jwindwood

jwindwood

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Guys
I see that 944's had both vinyl stick on and metal "944" logos. Could someone give me a guide as to which ages had which ?
My 1985 car is being resprayed and I'm not sure whether to fit a metal one. (Not that I'm over-obsessed by originality anyway!!) [;)]
Thanks.
 
Both my 89 oval dash and 85 square dash have the raised "944" badge on the back . Its actually made of plastic rather than metal . I've just order a new from my opc for about £8 having just had my 89 car fully resprayed .
 
Ah-thanks for that. Mine is an '85 square dash and had the "aftermarket" type vinyl outline one on it. I think I will try to source a raised one! Doing my car on a "shoestring" so will try to find a second hand one! [;)]
 
You can have my old one if you want . Its silver though so you'd need to respray it black to keep your car looking original .
 
From memory only the very, very first 1982MY 944s had a decal (because the badges werent available), along with a slightly differently textured rear spoiler.

/geek
 
From memory only the very, very first 1982MY 944s had a decal (because the badges werent available), along with a slightly differently textured rear spoiler.
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Indeed they did. The very first had two 924 vinyl badges cut and pasted to make 944! The spoiler was a much rougher texture. One will be on display at Chateau Impney in August, one owner from nearly new and only a few miles on it.
 

ORIGINAL: 944 man

Metallic light blue with berber trim Paul?
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That's the one. Amazing car, completely stuck in a timewarp. Was featured in a mag a few years ago. It even smells of 1982, which for me was scarily evocative of my Dad's 1982 944 that got me so hooked in the first place!
 
I think that Ive seen it in a magazine, with an elderly owner who wear sandalls and socks.
 

ORIGINAL: jwindwood

Doing my car on a "shoestring" so will try to find a second hand one! [;)]
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Call your local Porsche Centre (I recommend Exeter 01392 822800 ) it will be about a tenner for a new one with club discount.
 
Black or silver plastic "944" badges are £7.14 + vat from OPC. As you guys says, very early (up to June 1982) had a white decal, still available at the same £7.14. Interesting that Swiss cars had it in red along with the PORSCHE on the bumper in red too
 
Thanks all. Steve has helped me out with his old plastic badge. Red lettering eh? That might look nice on a white car, and I have to paint the badge anyway........ [;)]
 
I we are being really geeky, the earliest cars had a black outline decal along with different ABS frames around the driving lights and indicators. These were shorter and only enclosed the lamps, omitting the rubber over-rider and leaving an exposed whole in the compressed fibre bumber through which the towing eye was threaded (into the large bumper mount)
 
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