RE: Badge Engineering

[Patrick Sherman <psherman@bigfoot.com>]

Just take the JET outta of Jetta, and do a "VR6 Jet"


(\X/)Patrick Sherman			psherman@bigfoot.com(\X/)
97 Vento VR6 / Tornado Red / 10K 
"Zzzzzzzz"

On Sunday, January 11, 1998 3:31 PM, George Achorn [SMTP:coolidge@tidalwave.net] wrote:
> 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