SOT: When did the hood badge change? Options

[wonkipop]

i suggest the reason that a 914 did not end up with a badge is because its all about piech and in the end its the mark or evidence that he kind of disappeared or was erased for a time. its not the reason that the badge is not on the bonnet but all the arguments there would have been around how to badge it would have orbited his presence or shortly to be non presence.

@wonkipop So you are dismissing the lunch-thieving Type IV bullies hypothesis so easily? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

thats why my car is never going to have a porsche badge on it.
piech had to endure not having the name porsche.
so i absolutely honour him by maintaining no badge.
my car is not a porsche. its a piech?

Or... do we honor Piech by giving his car the badge and by extension, him the name he always wanted? Oh boy, this conundrum just never ends. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)

you are on to it mate.

i don't know about lunch thieves. but at least VW sat back and let them call it one name in the USA. some sense prevailed there and the idea of the car was a little less confusing to the average consumer. (i am not an average consumer so it would have made no difference to me, but you know.......the idea of a slow porsche was more credible than the idea of a fast VW so wolfsburg type 4 lunch bullies probably saw sense or were made to see sense? - but only so far? = lets not forget as soon as nordhoff was dead VW went cool on porsche and were tentatively booking the divorce court and then in 71 leidling just put the loaded gun on the table and said. go on pick it up).

piech was not a porsche. but he was. that was always his problem so to speak.
having his fathers name. i think he was the original KDF accountant business brain.

piech's mother was a force of nature. ferry's sister.

so to honour piech i am going with the idea it cannot have a badge.
it kind of reflects piech's own quandry concerning his name and status.
which really took a savage bashing from about late 1971 to around 1980-----
when he started to come back with a vengeance from the obscure siberia he had been sent to at audi.

i maintain that the 914 was subject to the same disrespect as piech was for the 70s and its part of what explains its curious status.

i truly think that is why during the late 70s and 80s all history regarding the car was stifled. like who designed it? was it a gugelot toaster? etc and so forth. it kind of went to the gulag with piech for a while.

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[bbrock]

@wonkipop Don't fret. There is a badge for your car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[Van B]

Oooohhh man! No excuses now Wonki!!

[ClayPerrine]

Y'all are (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dead horse.gif)


If you want a Porsche badge on your 914, put one on it.

If you don't want a badge, then don't add it.

It is your car, and it is YOUR choice. Nobody here will ridicule you one way or another.

To quote @Rusty .... "I can't be an elitist, I drive a 914."

Do what makes you happy.

[Superhawk996]

Nobody here will ridicule you one way or another.

I reserve the right to ridicule Brent, well. . . Just because. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

[914sgofast2]

Would it be acceptable to add a VW badge to the frunk of my 914?

[Superhawk996]

I might add a prancing Moose sticker / bage. That ought to really throw em’ off the trail

[ClayPerrine]

Would it be acceptable to add a VW badge to the frunk of my 914?

The only reason anyone would ridicule you for that is if you didn't post pictures of it.

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[bbrock]

Would it be acceptable to add a VW badge to the frunk of my 914?

I once put a Porsche badge on a VW bus so turnabout should be fair. I think it needs to be the big bus badge though. Be bold! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.ebaymotorsblog.com-20845-1664401202.1.jpg)

[KELTY360]

Nobody here will ridicule you one way or another.

I reserve the right to ridicule Brent, well. . . Just because. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

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[bbrock]

Nobody here will ridicule you one way or another.

I reserve the right to ridicule Brent, well. . . Just because. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

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MOM! They're picking on me again. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif)

[Superhawk996]

Would it be acceptable to add a VW badge to the frunk of my 914?

I once put a Porsche badge on a VW bus so turnabout should be fair. I think it needs to be the big bus badge though. Be bold! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.ebaymotorsblog.com-20845-1664401202.1.jpg)

I’m strangely drawn to and approving of that proposal (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[Van B]

No joke, I saw a bus that someone put a G-series flat six in. They had a Porsche crest on the rear deck lid and since it was running when I saw it, I was immediately pleased lol!

[wonkipop]

Would it be acceptable to add a VW badge to the frunk of my 914?

as mr perrine says, its not what others find acceptable, its what you like that matters.

EDIT

i knew i had seen it somewhere in the dim distant past.
found it.

[wonkipop]

@wonkipop Don't fret. There is a badge for your car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

where do i get it?

(when i have imbibed of a few L-Jet ales i have considered getting some custom side drop out stripes made in typography to match originals. but saying P I E C H. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

[wonkipop]

No joke, I saw a bus that someone put a G-series flat six in. They had a Porsche crest on the rear deck lid and since it was running when I saw it, I was immediately pleased lol!

oh yeah. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BApBZYzLmoI

[ClayPerrine]

Nobody here will ridicule you one way or another.

I reserve the right to ridicule Brent, well. . . Just because. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

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MOM! They're picking on me again. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif)

Mom's not here, but I can help..... pick on you. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)

[bbrock]

where do i get it?

(when i have imbibed of a few L-Jet ales i have considered getting some custom side drop out stripes made in typography to match originals. but saying P I E C H. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

You get it from Ferdinand's son, Anton (Tony), of course. Quite interesting really. His company has developed an EV super car to be released in 2024. Kind of funny since his dad apparently didn't like EVs and is a big reason why VW was slow to the game. Most interesting is that he claims they can put an 80% (250 miles of range) into the car in under 5 minutes. That may be the last hurdle for EVs to truly go mainstream.

EDIT: I almost forgot. In some articles I read, this car is going to be built by "a well-known" car manufacturer. Please, please, please let it be Karmann. That would make it perfect.

There are several videos online. Here is one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qe7m_YoiNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qe7m_YoiNM

and an article:

https://www.hotcars.com/everything-we-know-...ctric-piech-gt/

[bbrock]

Nobody here will ridicule you one way or another.

I reserve the right to ridicule Brent, well. . . Just because. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

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MOM! They're picking on me again. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif)

Mom's not here, but I can help..... pick on you. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)

Well this is starting to look like junior high school all over again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)

[bbrock]

No joke, I saw a bus that someone put a G-series flat six in. They had a Porsche crest on the rear deck lid and since it was running when I saw it, I was immediately pleased lol!

oh yeah. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BApBZYzLmoI

Holy bejeebus! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yikes.gif) I remember many times white knuckling my bus at 50 mph with a 30 mile cross wind hoping the thing didn't tip over. Would like to see the suspension on that beast.