Dealership emblems?

Burns69RT · Oct 25, 2015

Does anybody here know if most dealerships put emblems on all their cars? I looked in the glove box in my 70 Plymouth and found this emblem in there. It matches the holes on the deck lid. It's a lynch road car and was purchased brand new in Pittsburgh at this dealer.

patrick66 · Oct 25, 2015

Back in the day, most did. California dealers used license plate frames, instead, for the most part.

Burns69RT · Oct 25, 2015

Cool, I though it was an interesting thing to find in the glovebox. It'll make a cool piece of toolbox art.

patrick66 · Oct 25, 2015

If it matches the holes, why not just reinstall it?

mmissile · Oct 25, 2015

I'd like to find a bunch of NOS dealer stickers[vintage] and metal emblems. I'd also like to know what dealer sold my 68 runner new.

Burns69RT · Oct 25, 2015

I'm pretty sure you could find out through the Chrysler vehicle database with the vin

fratzog lover · Oct 25, 2015

Wow Gegnas Chrysler Plymouth. They were big In Philadelphia in the day. Frankford section. Gone since the late 80's I think.

Burns69RT · Oct 25, 2015

Yeah I was surprised how solid the car was when I got it. Since being a Northern car and sitting in SC for 10 years or so. Original owner had this vehicle garage kept till the owner prior to me let her sit outside in the grass for 10 years. Now gotta replace the front floorboards and lower 1/4 panels that's it.

GetX'd · Oct 25, 2015

As I recall most of the dealers put those emblems on the deck lid. Don't remember ever seeing one anywhere else on a car.

patrick66 · Oct 25, 2015

The only time you'd see those in a different place is on pickups and medium-duty trucks. In those cases, you'd see (and sometimes still do see) the dealer callout underneath the front fender model emblem on each side, as well as the tailgate.

bigmanjbmopar · Oct 26, 2015

Man I hated to see those stupid dealer emblems on cars, I was thought if you wanted to advertise you need to pay me! they wouldn't put one on lmao Here inCal the first thing you do is toss the dealer frame. Patch the holes call it good.

747mopar · Oct 26, 2015

I always have disliked dealership stickers on my cars, it's like paying them to advertise for them plus to me it's kinda crappy for them to liter up your new ride. That aside it is at least a cool looking piece!

patrick66 · Oct 26, 2015

Yeah, but a cool old chrome callout from a dealer that has been out of business for years is a cool addition to a car or truck. Even the California dealer tag frames are collectible in their own right. It's fun when you can actually trace a vehicle back 50 years or more to the original dealer. And even cooler if that dealer's name is still on the car. I look at these as an integral part of the car's history.

The stickers and plastic callouts are tacky, plus these are mostly 1980 and newer, anyway.

CudaChick1968 · Oct 27, 2015

I had the pleasure of restoring a bunch of old Dodge 800 truck emblems, including the Kuhn dealership's emblems which were really beat and didn't clean up as well as the others. They were all very cool though.

This is how they arrived ...

And this is what went out ...

Vicious pot metal -- sometimes it turns out perfect and other times not so much. But they were saved.

patrick66 · Oct 27, 2015

Those look fantastic!

MarPar · Oct 27, 2015

patrick66 said:
Those look fantastic!

Leanna is the best!!

The Claw · Oct 27, 2015

Hi. Not to hijack this thread, but how do you figure out what dealership your car came from? From the certicard?
Those emblems came out sweet btw.

Thanks
The Claw

patrick66 · Oct 27, 2015

The CertiCard has the five-digit dealer ID number on it. It is not stamped on the card itself, but as a part of that tape that is applied to it at the dealer when the vehicle is sold. Somewhere is a list of those numbers, I've seen them one time, but so not remember where I'd seen them.

Burns69RT · Oct 27, 2015

Chrysler database with the vin. Or go to a dodge dealer and if their cool about it they'll put your vin in their data base and it will tell you from what dealer.

patrick66 · Oct 27, 2015

Burns69RT said:
Chrysler database with the vin. Or go to a dodge dealer and if their cool about it they'll put your vin in their data base and it will tell you from what dealer.

That works with modern cars, but nothing from the '60s or '70s.

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