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27-03-2011, 09:48 AM
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but what is it with putting chev badges on a holden??
the other day I seen one with the pontiac front end, and it looks good but then it had chev badges all over it and holden centre caps on the wheels, I was like well what sort of car is this and what does this guy want!! __________________ well i think i found why http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDkx1...embedded#at=73 |
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27-03-2011, 09:58 AM
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
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oh no , not again.
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27-03-2011, 10:07 AM
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moderator ford coupe club
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and gt badges/stickers on fords
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27-03-2011, 10:10 AM
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I'm waiting for Daewoo badges to appear on Cruzes...
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27-03-2011, 10:14 AM
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Worst one I saw the other day was Monaro badges on vz 4 door commodore on the back doors.. I couldn't stop laughing.
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27-03-2011, 10:18 AM
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I can see this thread lasting long.
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27-03-2011, 10:18 AM
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You want to hear something really interesting?
A few years back, we had a VX Commodore Lumina, and put clear taillights on it (don't laugh, with the burgandy metallic a few touches of chrome looked very nice...). I put the old taillights on Ebay, and two guys started a bidding war, and I ended up selling them for $120. So what, you might say? The interesting part is that one guy was in New York and the other in Denver, Colorado. I spoke to the winner, the guy in New York, and he said that he had a then-new Pontiac GTO. It was a "done thing" to replace the Pontiac front end, taillights, and all badging to make it once again a Holden Monaro "to be different and stand out from the crowd". Apparently a lot of US owners loved the car itself but didn't really like the droopy-looking Pontiac front bar, and were ordering panels and stuff from Australia to make them look like the much more purposeful Australian Monaro once again. He sent me a pic of his black Monaro sitting on the pier with the Statue Of Liberty off in the background some distance away. If I can track it down I'll post it here. I told him that it was a craze here to take off the Holden badges and put Chev badges on them to obviously make them look American. He thought that was a bit odd. At least the Yanks were doing the right thing by making what had originally been a Holden back into a Holden again...what point is there putting Chev badges onto a Holden when it's a Holden and not a Chev? I always wanted to put Buick badges on our VX, as it had the V6, which was descended from the original VN V6 which was a Buick motor anyway... 
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27-03-2011, 10:22 AM
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27-03-2011, 10:23 AM
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Chev badges on a Holden......makes me wonder if people put Lexus badges on Toyotas?
Don't let them see this site....could open a whole can of worms! http://www.chevrolet.co.uk/cars/
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27-03-2011, 10:23 AM
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I like the idea - helps me to pick the genuine w @ nkers.
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27-03-2011, 10:25 AM
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My favourites are the V6 commodores with the Chev Badges. Now that's the look.
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27-03-2011, 10:27 AM
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I have always wondered why someone would buy a vehicle of any type and then try to disguise what it is.
Are they really THAT ashamed of the Holden badge......... |
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27-03-2011, 10:28 AM
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Theres no way I would be dropping the HSV badges for Chev... IMHO - There is the chev grill with badge which I think lloks good, but the actual whole chev badge on a holden I think is stupid.
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27-03-2011, 10:29 AM
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27-03-2011, 10:32 AM
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Browsing here and there..
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Hasn't this been done to death like a million times? Only good thing to come out of this thread is the post from 2011G6E. Lock and ban..
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27-03-2011, 10:53 AM
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ban who
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27-03-2011, 11:17 AM
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I think I'll have to get some Mercury Badges for the EF and the FG .
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27-03-2011, 11:23 AM
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I'm seeing Acura badges on Honda's now
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27-03-2011, 11:37 AM
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a lot of people who cirtisise the opposition, are the same people who think its ok to put a bonnet bulge on a car that doesn't need it, or xr front treatment on gl/xt, etc etc
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27-03-2011, 11:41 AM
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27-03-2011, 01:16 PM
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Well, I guess it's been about a week since we've had a thread about why people stick Chev badges on Holdens - obviously we were due.
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27-03-2011, 01:25 PM
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I think if people just listen to the you tube links, & realise that even if this has been done to death, it will happen again, as is real conversations in the real world as well
 the vids are quite funny
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27-03-2011, 02:45 PM
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When I first saw the SSV sportwagon I instantly fell in love with the look. But the one thing I instantly hated ABOUT ITS APPEARANCE was that god awful big chrome lion on the front grille. The chrome lion means nothing to me. I have no allegence to Holden even though my first car was an L34 Torana. I have no allegence to Ford either even though my second car was an XB Hardtop and you may as well add Nissan to that list as my last car was a twin turbo 300ZX. So a big chrome lion on the grille is an eye sore to me and a lot of my fellow commodore owners. For as little as $40 I can replace it with a more masculine chevy/pontiac badge. Here's the rub, I replaced my chrome lion with a SSV badge and that draws a lot of positive attention.
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chev bowties on a holden
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