Car badge indentification

[heisthegaffer]

Dear all

My wife's grandfather saw an unusual badge in Hertfordshire recently and asked me who the manufacturer was after describing it (no photo's sadly). According to him it was a round badge with a horizontal line and a vertical line cutting it into quarters (like a pie cut into four equal parts) and it looked a bit like a target.

He said the car appeared quite old and may have had an 'A' reg - the older A reg, not from the 80s.

I couldn't see anything when I googled it, so if anyone could she any light, we'd be most grateful.

Thanks

[itz_baseline]

He might have seen a Chevrolet? Is he in to cars or would he know it wasn't one of these?

[Papa Hotel]

Wild guess... BMW?



Seems to fit the description. A touch obvious though, hardly a rarity.

[heisthegaffer]

Nope, not a BMW which was my first thought though very similar, it had the outline of the outer circle and inner straight lines but nothing else.

Not a Chevrolet badge either.

Thanks anyway!

[Papa Hotel]

The only ones I can think of that remotely fit the bill are the Alfa Romeo badge and old Lancia badge. Maybe just a club badge of some sort?

[ajb85]

Could she possibly mistaken it for the 'star' Chrysler badge?



Would be in keeping with 1984, too.

[Papa Hotel]

Talbot?

[RDM]

Talbot.?

[Papa Hotel]

RDM said:

Talbot.?

Too slow.

[uncinquesei]

Puch?

they did do cars....

Edited by uncinquesei on Thursday 22 November 22:43

[Noesph]

Borgward?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgward

[GoneAnon]

Morgan have horizontal and vertical bars. And would certainly look old, even if brand new!

[uncinquesei]

looks a bit like a target?
not quite the right period but close ish...

[Eighteeteewhy]

[Codswallop]

Mercury badge?

[barker22]

fisker?

[AllNines]

Come on guys, read the OP - it's not the 1983 A-reg prefix but the older suffix. (Hence certainly not the Talbot "T".)

Did this old boy not give any clues about the car on which he saw this badge?

[carl_w]

barker22 said:

fisker?

Have you read the question? Unless Henrik Fisker was designing cars as a newborn, I think you're way off.

[Papa Hotel]

AllNines said:

Come on guys, read the OP - it's not the 1983 A-reg prefix but the older suffix. (Hence certainly not the Talbot "T".)

Did this old boy not give any clues about the car on which he saw this badge?

Your post works best if read all adenoidy.

[heisthegaffer]

AllNines said:

Come on guys, read the OP - it's not the 1983 A-reg prefix but the older suffix. (Hence certainly not the Talbot "T".)

Did this old boy not give any clues about the car on which he saw this badge?

He said it was a very boxy, dated looking 3 box saloon in a yellow colour a bit like a wartburg. That's all I know!