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Probably when the tree huggers ban the use of petrol cars due to emissions I remember reading that they was going ban classic cars from Paris due to the emissions I don’t know if they did it or not.
You can only sit in a electric self driven death trap, letting drives make decisions behind the wheel of a car how terrible and reckless it is to actually let people drive cars and a clear breach of health and safety regulations we must let the computers take over,
I agree it is a shame when to a lot of people it’s just a hobby, years ago you couldn’t give the stuff away I blame all these tv programs that jumped on the bandwagon suddenly every man and his cat wanted a classic car.
Well done on your badge I certainly wouldn’t pay the amount of what an old stock sells for.
 
Just a thought if you found a company to remake theses badges and then sell them would you fall into the horrible trap of copyright, or would no one care? I once remember a T shirt seller was selling Rover badged T shirts and someone contacted him and told him not to I think it’s something to do with the Rover badge someone may own the brand still or is it so old it’s not a problem? I thought BMW owned the brand but I am not sure, anyone know any names of companies that can do a run of badges?
 
To tool up again for that quality of badge that was reproduced by heritage will cost £ 10000s ,don't know who has the rights or the tooling now for it.
The late Steve walker had exclusive rights for the badges and window rubbers and even front indicator lamps were reproduced.
Did may people buy after his enormous outlay?
Not that many his unt was full at one time.
 
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Always a risk when you manufacture items that you will end up getting stuck with them but I suspect that a run of a 100 or so badges would eventually all sell.

MOQ's for this sort of stuff would be at best a minimum of 100 to 250 and rightly so as you need to disperse the upfront tooling and design costs, no one wants 10 badges at 1000.00 pounds each.

The last 2 years I have been too busy with a new baby and getting used to a blended family and multiple new homes in different countries to give it a shot of getting the badges made but as time goes on and as there has been no movement from past suppliers to get off their collectives A$$es, I might get round to it not too distantly ( that is if the half planned next baby doesn't eventuate).
 
What we need is a fellow P6 owner in China who could help I bet you could get 10 a penny over there,
I think your right the tooling would be the biggest cost there is something you pay for first they put the design on a CD for you all measurements ect then once you have that you can go around and have them made by what ever company but I can’t remember the name if it, I wonder if the badges are under some kind of patent?
That is excellent that Steve Walker went to all that trubble and time to get the stuff remade, have you any info on what happened to his tooling ect ?
 
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Aim afraid he passed away a few years ago ,the rest of his stock was bought by some other trader's and wins
Pretty sure if the pattern / tooling was still about how cones no other p6 traders are remaking?
 
Jr Wadhams have them on there website but it states out of stock so I can only guess that there was a fue batches made by people that managed to be sold off
The SD1 badge looks very similar and there is a few on eBay Part number BRC6198
 
yeah, its a new province :) . I live part of the time in China and own an apartment in a large Chinese city of 10 million plus people.
 

I could well be wrong here, but my recollection is that the original NOS badges did not have nyloc nuts, rather a normal nut with a spring washer.
Either way, those remade by Steve Walker were identical to the original ones, and I dare say may well be made from better materials given the time difference between the original's date of manufacture and those made during the early 1990s. Even the factory ones change materials it would seem, if my Rover's first two badges are anything to go by.

Ron
 
Does anyone have one of the JRW pressed steel ones? I am sure they were available years ago and I nearly bought one.
 
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