Just remembered this.
Wow. Never thought in a million years that I'd find an NOS dealership emblem from the place that sold my 84
H/O new. The original was potmetal, and cheaply chromed, so you know what the elements do to them, especially around North Kansas City, MO in the Midwest snow belt.
But I did finally find one.
Every now and again on ebay, I would do a search for a dealership emblem maybe in the hopes of scoring one in decent enough shape to use. Never expecting anything, piddling around on ebay one day last month and ran across a very nice one and it had its price slashed. So I bought it. When it arrived, I was very amazed to find out it was "NOS". Brand new, and never mounted. Yeah, there's a little very light pit spots on it, so it's not perfect, but for the most part, it's still brandy-new.
Here's a pic of the original owner shortly after buying my car new. You can see the emblem on the trunklid in the pic. It screwed on to the trunklid with those tiny little screws.
When I got around to repainting the car, I had the holes filled where the screw holes were and car repainted without the emblem. The emblem was blistering all over and simply trash ugly by that point. So I tossed it.
My plans are NOT to drill holes in the trunklid again and mount with screws. Instead, I'm going to use double-sided tape, not sure which kind yet, and glue in some stainless screw heads with the rest of the screw threads cut off. To SIMULATE it being installed with screws.
I know it's something nobody cares about much, heck, I don't either. But these are the sort of details not too many people bother to mess with.
Some know this already, that I had saved some "NOS" James Oldsmobile plastic stick on emblems when I bought my 85 442 and re-made the front license dealer plate myself, along with some matchbook swag, which didn't come out as good as I liked, but will have to do. So when that car is completed, I can actually complete it.
Original- a little worse for wear, should have got a new one of those too while I had the chance:
Repro I conjured up:
my cheesy matchbook attempt. Fully functional book of matches.
Oh, and while I'm squealing like a school girl, here is the "NOS" H.E. Miller emblem I scored recently (still need to get some small phillips head stainless screws for it):
Now if I could just find a Steven Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Elryia, OH, sticker/tag/whatever they used for the 87...