New Metal Nose Badges

**ProtoTipo** · 12-03-2021, 15:51

Originally Posted by Normb666

You did used to be able to get them from Omicron, but they were a lot more expensive - don't know if they still sell them.
Chairman Norm

I had one of those, surplus, a while ago Norm:
Omicron Badge

It came with some wheels I bought, and I already had an original badge.

**Normb666** · 12-03-2021, 16:20

I've still got one....don't know if I'll put it on mine. Maybe with "by ListerBell" underneath it (as it's a pre-LB-name-change car)?

I put one on my Allora, but used a Beta grille badge carefully sliced around the "circle" to get it thinner. Looked OK actually.

**LPH_UK** · 12-03-2021, 17:48

If they could make these badges with decent fixings on the back (like threaded posts) then I'd have one! I have an Omicron Badge and they use very small posts and clips that just push on. A bit of the chrome plating also flaked and fell off........

Images of other work on their website look good.

**David J** · 12-03-2021, 18:12

Norm I did the same as you and modified the Lancia Beta grill badge it looks basically the same as the original.

**ProtoTipo** · 12-03-2021, 18:42

Originally Posted by LPH_UK

If they could make these badges with decent fixings on the back (like threaded posts) then I'd have one! I have an Omicron Badge and they use very small posts and clips that just push on. A bit of the chrome plating also flaked and fell off........

Images of other work on their website look good.

That's a good point Leigh.
The older Omicron badges (late 1990s) had long threaded studs and nuts on the back.

The original Stratos just had a very short self tapper. The best solution they could come up with for retaining the (pre riveted) Fulvia hub cap badge.
'Not the best fixing idea?

**Stratos Fear** · 13-03-2021, 11:27

In principle I'd be happy for the club to buy a batch but would be guided by the Committee decision. My resin efforts were based around one of the plastic badge versions - but a metal version would undoubtedly be a far better bet and much more robust (and authentic).
I wouldnt be so worried about using one on the bonnet - after all we all put a "strato's" sticker on the boot dont we? However I can understand the concerns around design copyright (notwithstanding the fact it could be argued that the very car shape is an infringement of that).
I dont recall ever having seen an LB badge so dont know if these are available as a replacement (or indeed what they cost).

**LOFT6.6** · 13-03-2021, 19:57

Originally Posted by Normb666

That's a very reasonable price, I reckon, for what looks like a nice product (although you don't know till you see an actual example). It'd probably have to be a club buy at that quantity though, and we'd probably stick another few quid on to cover having to stock them, and also a small profit for the club funds. You did used to be able to get them from Omicron, but they were a lot more expensive - don't know if they still sell them.

The awkward elephant-in-the-room situation, though, is where these might go onto the nose of non-genuine cars. I don't think we could condone that as a club, certainly not after the C-Type replica debacle, so they'd be sold on that basis. I'll have a word or three with other committee members and see what they think, so watch this space...

Chairman Norm

Norm, I understand your reticence, but just being an Enthusiasts Club which includes a great number of members with Homages to the original are we not already condoning this whole replica situation? As Peter mentioned there are any number of suppliers of decals already out there and if they were sold by the the Club not as a nose badge, but a "regalia" display item then it would be up to individual purchasers how they were used.

BTW I would be interested in a couple myself.

Cheers!

Ade