Please Identify this Pontiac Badge

Tony Whitaker

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Nov 13, 2009, 4:39:30 PM11/13/09

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Hello. Can any of you guys identify this Pontiac badge:

http://www.mindspring.com/~skinsman/Badge-Front.jpg

http://www.mindspring.com/~skinsman/Badge-Front-Top.jpg

http://www.mindspring.com/~skinsman/Badge-Top-Back.jpg

http://www.mindspring.com/~skinsman/Badge-Back-Numbers.jpg

I won this on Ebay with the intention of mounting it on the license plate
bracket on my 2005 GTO. The seller said he didn't know what kind of car it
came from, but he thought it might be an Executive or Grand Prix. I can't
find any pictures of these 2 cars with this kind of badge, though. It's
almost exactly 6" long, it's chrome plated metal with white enamel (which I
repainted and have not cleaned up yet), and it has these 2 numbers stamped
on the back:

485791 7201

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Yousuf Khan

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Nov 13, 2009, 8:57:27 PM11/13/09

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Tony Whitaker wrote:
> Hello. Can any of you guys identify this Pontiac badge:
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> http://www.mindspring.com/~skinsman/Badge-Front.jpg
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> http://www.mindspring.com/~skinsman/Badge-Front-Top.jpg
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> http://www.mindspring.com/~skinsman/Badge-Top-Back.jpg
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> http://www.mindspring.com/~skinsman/Badge-Back-Numbers.jpg

Sorry, I can't give you anything definitive, but it does look like the
typical Pontiac badges that came on the trunks of Pontiacs from the
seventies, as far as I can remember.

Yousuf Khan

cl...@snyder.on.ca

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Nov 14, 2009, 12:01:35 AM11/14/09

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It's a grille badge from a 1971 Pontiac Firebird, Almost willing to
bet on it. The giveaway is the long "legs" on the back - definitely
grille - not trunk, hood, or fender. The date-code indicates 1971, and
71 tempests did not say Pontiac on the grille. The Firebird did (not
the TransAm IIRC) and so did the big boats - the Catalina for sure,
which I THINK used the same part.

Tony Whitaker

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Nov 14, 2009, 11:28:28 AM11/14/09

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I think you nailed it!!!

I had looked at Firebird badges before, but they all looked like this one:
http://www.mindspring.com/~plastruct/1972%20Firebird%20001.jpg (currently
for sale on Ebay - 3 days left),
which clearly has gaps between each of the letters. I see these badges for
sale on Ebay with a black strip connecting the letters. My badge has each
letter jammed against the next without any gap at all between the letters.

Then I found this image:
http://www.americana-international.co.uk/previous/2006/cars/big/car_056.jpg

It's not a great image, but I think it clearly shows my type of badge - no
gaps between letters.

I think you're right. It's an Early 70's Firebird badge.

Thanks.

Tony Whitaker

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Nov 14, 2009, 3:11:22 PM11/14/09

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Bingo!!! There's no doubt about these images of a 1973 Firebird:

http://tinyurl.com/yfwo5zd

Thanks again for helping me find this.