[Healeys] BADGE, Austin Healey MK III

[simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com]

I wonder if you could get a refund from Moss and have your original restored?

I’ve used Pamela David Enamels:-

 <http://www.badgecraft.co.uk/> ONE-OFF BADGE MANUFACTURE & RESTORATION OF GLASS ENAMEL BADGES (badgecraft.co.uk)

Don’t be put off by the rustic state of their website or the reference to faxes. Their work is excellent. They are not VAT registered so it’s £266:00(!!!) plus shipping. It would be done by February!

A lot of money. A lot of time. But you’ll have something as good as new. I put my money where my mouth is and had them do mine. Mine looks just right, I think, and I was flattered if extremely pissed off when a bodyshop stole it and put on a crummy repro. “Oh”, the man said, “we always put on new badges when we work on classics.” I asked where mine was.. “We threw it out, of course”.

I told him that he had 5 minutes to rethink whereupon he opened his drawer and passed it over. The police was not interested! Enough waffle…

Simon



 

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of David Masucci via Healeys
Sent: 29 September 2023 11:21
To: Ahealey help <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Healeys] BADGE, Austin Healey MK III

 

Hi all,

 

Atter 11+ years, my BJ8 has finally reached the point where I took her home yesterday painted Healey Blue. Now I can put all of the nice painted body parts back on, hopefully without scratching anything. 

 

Back in 2015 I purchased many parts in preparation for this day. One item is the MKIII badge (of which I opened the box for the first time yesterday). When I place it in it’s spot on the front shroud, I was not happy with the way that it looked compared to 2 old badges that I have. 

 

The old badge has less of an arch, and fits more flush to the body. The first thing I noticed is that the repro has more of an arch left to right. It’s more bulbous left to right than the originals.  This new one really only touches the body at the ends of the “wings”. To me, I think it looks wrong. 

 

In 2015 I paid $234 for this part from Moss. I see Moss lists this part now for $399…ouch! Does anyone have any experience with this part? Has the reproduction part improved since 2015? 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Dave

 

64 Healey Blue BJ8!

72 XJ6

 

 

 

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