Gold Emblems?
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Instructor
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From: Grayslake IL.
Gold Emblems?
Was thinking of changing my broken and faded emblems with the gold plated after market ones from Mid-America. Does anyone have these or seen them? Are they as nice as the stock ones? I like the gold look but my experience with aftermarket stuff is the quality isn't there.
Burning Brakes
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You'd be right in this case. Know of two different people who switched to the 'gold' emblems, one on a C4, the other on a C5. In both cases, within just a couple of months the gold was tarnishing and, in one case, peeling. Both these individual's keep there cars in 'show room' state, so it wasn't from neglect/misuse. Both said they were a total waste of money and wouldn't recommend them to anyone. Other's may have had different experiances, but these are the only two I know of and both had the same -- bad.
Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by 87Clwy
You'd be right in this case. Know of two different people who switched to the 'gold' emblems, one on a C4, the other on a C5. In both cases, within just a couple of months the gold was tarnishing and, in one case, peeling. Both these individual's keep there cars in 'show room' state, so it wasn't from neglect/misuse. Both said they were a total waste of money and wouldn't recommend them to anyone. Other's may have had different experiances, but these are the only two I know of and both had the same -- bad.
SAME THING HAPPENED TO A COUPLE DIFFERENT FOLKS IN OUR CLUB. BOTH WENT BACK TO REGULAR ...esp the CORVETTE letters on the back of both the C4 and C5.
Drifting
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Got the emblems used in great shape. No problems. Got the gold door handles used. Still no problem. Bought brand new gold exhaust tips.
Nice
No emblem on the back. I figure if ya don't know that's a corvette in front of you, ya can't read the word either. No emblems at all on my red '77. Everybody knows it's a vette under the cover 
Nice
No emblem on the back. I figure if ya don't know that's a corvette in front of you, ya can't read the word either. No emblems at all on my red '77. Everybody knows it's a vette under the cover
Drifting
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Don't do it. Besides the quality issues mentioned, it really looks ghetto. 
Originally Posted by jerryL98
Was thinking of changing my broken and faded emblems with the gold plated after market ones from Mid-America. Does anyone have these or seen them? Are they as nice as the stock ones? I like the gold look but my experience with aftermarket stuff is the quality isn't there.
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Instructor
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From: Grayslake IL.
Originally Posted by rubyred93
Don't do it. Besides the quality issues mentioned, it really looks ghetto.
Instructor
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From: Woodbine MD
Garaged and try not to get rained on....Mid America gold lettering (gold plate) and gold emblem.....been on for two years and still looks like new.
Last edited by trvette; Nov 5, 2004 at 05:58 PM.
