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Laycock od badge

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Does anyone have a spare Laycock overdrive badge or know where I can possibly find one? I realize how rare they are and also that it was never an original equipment item. I asked the Roseby/Howarth team but they had none available and were not too optimistic I could find one. Cheers
 
I wasn't even aware there was such a thing. I've seen 'OVERDRIVE' badges on many cars, but never a specifically Laycock one. Of course, there's the 'badge bar' Laycock De Normanville badges, but that doesn't seem like what you're describing here... or is it??
 
I think it would be worth posting a photo .
As Kevin says plenty of British cars would get an "overdrive" script on the bootlid when fitted, but I don't recall seeing a specific LD overdrive badge
 
The ones I remember seeing were on the boot lid of late 60/s , early 70's 140 series cars. And you are right , they were simply
" overdrive " badges, No LD script/
 
There aren't any that Rootes ever used, I don't think, but I am not the supreme expert here. However, there are a number of scripts that may do the job nicely:

The first photo below shows one that was used on 1950's Plymouths, so it's somewhat in keeping with the whole Chrysler thing, and I think the font looks most like the Alpine script as well. Probably really hard to find in good nick, though.

The second photo shows the Ford script that was also used during the 1950's.

The third photo below shows one that was used on early Triumph Spitfires (well, at least it's British). These always looked like they were bent-up accidentally, but that's really how they were designed. Go figure.

The fourth photo below shows one that was used on triumph TR-series cars (TR4/TR5) (ditto)

The last two are Volvo overdrive badges.

And then there's folks like this on Etsy who will make you whatever sort of badge you like in metal. No idea what the quality is like, but one of the fonts is interesting in terms of matching the Alpines.


So... there you are... not an exhaustive list, but it gives you some choices.

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