Other than Corvette Central, does anybody know where to get these C5logo inserts? Or even better yet, does anybody know who manufactured them?



Many thanks for any assitance

Richard

 

Don't know who manf. them but only place I saw dist. at was your neighbor West Coast Corvettes. They go for $19.99 for one.

 

Many thanks Dave I didn't know that WCC carried them. If anybody else has and information on these, please advise.
Thanks again,
Richard

 

 

ttt

 

Can you legally put the american flag insert on your car? In '53, the amercian flag was originally apart of the emblem with the checkered flag but was removed before production because it was illegal to have the american flag on a product trade mark. Maybe the law has changed by now.

 

Illegal, no. http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html

The Flag Code is intended as a guide to be followed on a purely voluntary basis to insure proper respect for the flag.

United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 — The Flag


§8. Respect for flag
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
a. The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
b. The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
c. The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
d. The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
e. The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.
f. The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
g. The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
h. The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
i. The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.
j. No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.
k. The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning

 

I believe it was a manufacturing law. Something to the effect of that you couldn't use the US flag to represent a product (in this case, an automobile trademark)

You can do whatever you want to your own car.

 

Not true when it comes the American flag, the emblem i would say would be pushing it legally, and would anyone ever say anything, of course not, BUT lets say you draped a flag all over the front end of your car or hung one upside down on your car, YOUR CAR or not, its illegal.

Here's a bit of trivia for you, whats the one and only reason that you CAN hang the American flag upside down?

 

 

As stated above:

 

Exactly, was wondering if anyone actually read the above post

 

 

I got mine from West Coast.

 

i like those

$20 for the inserts

http://www.westcoastcorvette.com/pc-...1997-2004.aspx

 

They can be custom made (along with any other image you can imagine) by painting on the back of 1/8" acrylic.

I made mine pewter metallic with black negative space:


they can be adhered with a drop of silcone

 

You'd be hard pressed to find any one who could cite you for that offense CORRECTLY, with the proper federal jurisdiction. If you did that to yours, I could cite you... but I have a relatively short area that is traversed by the public. The likelihood of being pulled over for it is next to nothing. Honestly, I wouldn't cite for it because I wouldn't know where the hell to look for the appropriate fine... it just doesnt happen. I wouldn't do it to my own car... but I digress to the original point;

The WCC inserts are not illegal, and even if they were... nobody would care because they don't disrespect the colors.

But to answer your question, it is flown upside down to signal disorder or duress. Happened to my uncle when he was a kid. The shore patrol came to my grandads (Navy 0-6 ret) on-base house to check on their status after my uncle (7 yrs old at the time) raised the flag in their yard upside down by mistake.

 

those are not an American flag, so the arguement is a mute point.

 

Correct, those are not an American flag, only one are. j/k

I guess it's a matter of interpretation. Not a mute point to some, but mute to you.

What Is a Flag?
The flag of the United States is any flag of the United States, or any part thereof, made of any substance, of any size, accurate or not, that is recognized as a flag by the reasonable observer. Some argue that flags are only those items made for display as flags. However the flag code makes clear that the image of the flag sewn into fabric (as on T-shirts) or printed on paper are still considered flags: "... It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard..." The pictures below are all recognized as flags.

See illustrations @ http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html Scroll down to What Is a Flag.

 

A bit of a tangent, but I thought it was funny that they titled that the "Betsy Ross" page. Being that she didn't design or create the first US flag... a subject which has been in nearly all our history textbooks, uncorrected, to date.

Of course that is all open to speculation since nobody can prove who actually did create/design it. But there's more documentation that she didn't than anything.

The site is correct in the display of the flag however (to keep it topic related)

Some 'light' reading if you were interested.
http://focus.antiquescouncil.com/articlepage113.php
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0875838.html
http://www.trivia-library.com/b/bets...rican-flag.htm
http://www.htflag.com/HTFfacts.htm