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Re: Original 3000 V6 badges 2018/01/09 18:37:57 (permalink)
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What happens to the orange anodising then? Does it fade evenly to grey like the one Spud posted? Orange makes sense with the GT badge etc it's just that I've never seen a bage that's still orange. Must have faded early on on their life.

Mine appears to be completely metal finish so would appear that maybe the orange peels off maybe, I'm not sure though, I must say that I've never seen them in orange, but I wasn't around in the 70's to see them original
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Re: Original 3000 V6 badges 2018/01/09 21:03:45 (permalink)
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The anodising fades in sunlight over time. If you look carefully at the sales brochures, you'll see the '3000' has orange around the numbers. This is an original badge that was on ebay over 10 years ago, and is the only one I've ever seen in this condition (apart from on a very low mileage, always garaged car). This is how they came originally.
 

 
They are very similar to how the 1600XL side badges were (1600 2V with red around the '1600'). I'll take a picture of one I have here. I have seen someone who had new inserts that were only grey with black highlights, but my view is they were probably left overs from production that didn't go through the finishing process.
 
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Re: Original 3000 V6 badges 2018/01/09 21:23:54 (permalink)
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That's why I bought 2 sets
 
These are the early/UK ones.  Orig on top, repro on bottom.

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Re: Original 3000 V6 badges 2018/01/09 21:45:49 (permalink)
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The anodising fades in sunlight over time. If you look carefully at the sales brochures, you'll see the '3000' has orange around the numbers. This is an original badge that was on ebay over 10 years ago, and is the only one I've ever seen in this condition (apart from on a very low mileage, always garaged car). This is how they came originally.
 

 
They are very similar to how the 1600XL side badges were (1600 2V with red around the '1600'). I'll take a picture of one I have here. I have seen someone who had new inserts that were only grey with black highlights, but my view is they were probably left overs from production that didn't go through the finishing process.
 
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Wow thats amazing condition for a original badge! The reproductions on ebay look extremely close.
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Re: Original 3000 V6 badges 2018/01/09 23:59:57 (permalink)
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The reproductions on ebay look extremely close.


Especially when the first picture in the ebay listing is of the same original badge in my picture above. The other pictures show the repros have slightly different colouring and finish, but they are pretty good anyway.

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Re: Original 3000 V6 badges 2018/01/10 00:24:15 (permalink)
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The marking above the rhs of the V is pretty distinctive.  Looks like there's been a buying spree, only 1 set left.
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Re: Original 3000 V6 badges 2018/01/10 07:05:27 (permalink)
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The marking above the rhs of the V is pretty distinctive.  Looks like there's been a buying spree, only 1 set left.


Ive done him a good service haha, there were 7 sets left 2 days ago and they have been advertised for a while. 
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Re: Original 3000 V6 badges 2018/09/04 05:24:14 (permalink)
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Hi Guys just curious as to why there seems to be 3 x different types of Aussie 3000 V6 badges , did they change them after a certain run years ?
I have noticed that some have a border around the " 3000" & " V6 " and others dont , some have orange insert & others appear to have never had any orange at all ?? the letters V6  on this one are thinner than the other 2 types?  This type appears to have never had orange paint insert? as it has no borders?This type appears to have had originally black background pain behind V6 and possibly orange behind 3000 ?
Very confusing to say the least .

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