Factory boot badge colours

ghce

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Did the factory just come out with the silver badge or was gold available and if so from what years were the changes available from.

Graeme
 
If you mean the touring kit badge, the surround was always chrome. And most of the ones you will see are considered to be gold because the detailing on the ship was painted gold, however the very early cars had the ship painted silver but I believe that this was only up to '66-'67.
 
yes indeed the touring kit badge, my recently aquired boot and all the accessories came off of a 1974/5 p6 2200TC build car and the ship body and sail ribs are silver, I have no reason to think it is any thing other than origional but had wondered as the main bonnet badge on my car is gold.

Graeme
 
Both the perfect boot mount badges that have been through my hands have had what I would describe as silver detailing. In certain lights and at certain angles one or possibly both might have been described as gold, but in daylight definitely silver. I've no reason to suppose they were pre '66, so I'm a little uncertain of the conventional wisdom from Kiwi-Rover above. I was so busy talking to people at the National on Sunday I forgot to look at the assembled cars to check! Has anyone got one that is clearly and definitely Gold?

Chris
 
Sorry Chris, my assumption was based partly on your comments here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7687&p=51745&hilit=silver+boot+badge#p51745
You said
Only observation I have is that it seems to have a Gold background to the ship. That probably rules it out as being a very early badge - they were a silver background I think?
and Ian's comments about his impending repro
an update on the boot mount badge insert. the picture you see is a finished one in the early colours of red, black and silver. i shall be doing some in this colour and more in the common later red, black and gold.
and Nick Dunning's comment
The boot badge I sold for the serious money was a 'silver ship' one - e.g. an early one without the gold on it. Rarer, (up to about 1968 I think) - but as it's not Series II, probably not as sought after (so I thought)...
and by the fact that most of the original ones I have seen are gold. The only one I have personally seen that is a bit silvery is the NOS one I fitted to my V8. But apart from that, I have no concrete proof to back it up. :)
 
So very hard to know with Rover, on the p5's the badges look good but the later p5b badges look a lot cheaper and plainer that the nice early ones.
for my p6 I have an after market boot badge that is in enamel and has the ship in gold. The factory origional plastic badge on mine is in excelent condition but most of the paint has fallen out of it so I presume I could just repaint it and stick it back onto its base plate.

Graeme
 
My early April 1971 2000tc has its original touring badge on it. A silver ship and sails. Mine still has the chrome 2000 and Rover badges carried over from the series 1 car so I think maybe these very early series 2s had the silver.
 
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