Badge Engineering

["George Achorn" <coolidge@tidalwave.net>]

Hi All,
	I was looking through an old VW Motoring mag from last year and saw a GTI
with a vw emblem on the back, followed by an itallic style "sport" emblem
in the vw style font black plastic with silver lettering. Turns out the
sport came from a cut off Transporter (brit name for eurovan) emblem minus
the "Tran" and the "er". Also in the EC featuring Autohaus Harrisburg's GTI
race car on the front it said "rad VR6" being a cut Co rad do emblem and
the VR6 emblem. So here's my thought.
	Next time I go to a dealer I am going to measure some of the emblems on
the cars. Adding a cool custom emblem would be pretty cool and trick to
show at a VW Show. I figure since they are all made of plastic, they could
probably be cut and then fused. I'd try fusing and cutting with a soddering
iron (cutting by attaching an exacto blade with a metal clamp, and making a
hot knife.)
	I am trying to think of what I want to make for my Jetta. Sadly I do not
have a VSR, but how cool would it be to have a VSR emblem were I to have
one. Follow me here, you could make it by taking the larger V and R from a
GTI front VR6 emblem (I believe the height is as big as the larger Jetta
and Golf emblem fonts). Now cut an S free from the GLS emblem and voila a
VSR emblem for the back of your car that looks pretty unnoticeable to the
undiscerning eye, but VERY cool to the VW nut.
	Just a thought. I may try and make an RS badge or something, and will let
you know how it goes.
- -G