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Sometimes those pesky little juvenile delenquents and miscreants can be useful.I had a similar experience back in 1977 at the local town park where I grew up here in Northern Ca.

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1 hour ago, Gold Seeker said:

Mid 1960s Ford Galaxie, I know for sure it was on a 1966 Ford Galaxie with the 352 engine, but not sure if it was on any other year models that had the 352 engine, and for sure not on any that didn't have the 352, i.e. the 289, the 390, or the 427.

It's a bit hard to see in these photos of 1966 Ford Galaxies, but the emblem is on the fender behind the front tire.

 

 

Gold Seeker thanks Mr those are some sweet looking cars. 

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2 hours ago, IronDigger said:

Our thing was stealing the tire stem valve chrome caps a

Oh man, stealing chromies! That was a big fun thing for my friends and I for a hot minute back in the late 80s, age 10 or so. Riding bikes around the neighborhood, we'd scope out a target (usually a truck with fat custom chrome valve caps) and circle back later, pretending to stop and "fix" one of our bikes while parked immediately adjacent to the street-side tires. Two chromies quickly lifted and pedal away.

I ceased personally re: that big fun ASAP one time after doing my lift and getting caught in the moment. Guy owning the truck was angry as hell, young, drunk/high, and FAST. Seeing me in the act of unscrewing his chromies, he bolted out of the house and hopped in his truck and chased me down before I could escape to the bike trails around the railroad tracks. He pulled a gun, I gave up the chromies, and never went back for another taste.

What I got before that I put on my bike or traded...didn't think about burying them in a chromie hoard! 🙂 

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1 hour ago, glacialgold said:

Oh man, stealing chromies! That was a big fun thing for my friends and I for a hot minute back in the late 80s, age 10 or so. Riding bikes around the neighborhood, we'd scope out a target (usually a truck with fat custom chrome valve caps) and circle back later, pretending to stop and "fix" one of our bikes while parked immediately adjacent to the street-side tires. Two chromies quickly lifted and pedal away.

I ceased personally re: that big fun ASAP one time after doing my lift and getting caught in the moment. Guy owning the truck was angry as hell, young, drunk/high, and FAST. Seeing me in the act of unscrewing his chromies, he bolted out of the house and hopped in his truck and chased me down before I could escape to the bike trails around the railroad tracks. He pulled a gun, I gave up the chromies, and never went back for another taste.

What I got before that I put on my bike or traded...didn't think about burying them in a chromie hoard! 🙂 

Yeah, i guess that would cure a kid!   Back then they just scared the &^$# out of them.  Now, who knows.

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20 hours ago, Zincoln said:

I'm with you JCR. Think it went on apparel or possibly leather. Kinda thinking a hat badge of some sort.  Found a 1920-30 era Western Union hat badge here and a 1930's Schwinn World head badge as well last year.   

Could have been part of a decorative brooch or ladies sash buckle.  Have found both of those items in this place as well. 

Definitely a curiosity, but no matches yet.  

Think we may have been looking at this wrong.  Now I'm leaning to an Asian symbol character.  Didn't want to pay for the app to see if its a Chinese symbol.  Not savvy enough on the other Asian languages to hazard to guess, but it most certainly does have that look about it.  Possibly rotated 90 deg.

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23 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Truly interesting finds, Zincoln! 👍

It was quite the thing to "de-badge" cars in the 60s and 70s, I knew kids that did it. 😀

Tried to find your whatzit, it might be a stylized "ERA" or something. Raleigh bicycles apparently didn't have a badge like that. 

Thanks for posting unique stuff. 🙂

I was thinking the same, must have become world wide because I'm in Australia !

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Great finds. Nice dime.  Funny my friend when he did his Galaxie restoration had to get the 500 at the Carlisle car show years ago.  Cost him a lil bit.

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The thunderbird would be my favorite...I tried to steal a GI Joe once when I was about 8 years old. My mother caught me and made me confess to the store manager...

strick 

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I doubt these badges have any value as they are in various states of decay.....but if anyone wants them and does restoration work to recover them....they aren't doing me any good.

Zincoln

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