The Austin Healey Club of Oregon regalia now has a fresh stock of the club badge. The new badges are beautifully done and are configured as grill badges. That is, the badge is intended to be affixed to the grill of the car. This is accomplished by threading two 3″ long rods into anchor points on the back of the badge, sliding these rods through the grill works, and locking the badge in the desired location with a small bar and nuts. The rods and nuts are part of the badge kit.

An alternate method of displaying the badge is to mount it on a badge bar as shown in the image at left. To implement this one needs a badge plate and a badge clip. Oh yeah, a badge bar mounted on the front bumper is also sort of handy. There is an important piece of information that you will also need. The 3″ threaded rods are of little use for a bar mounting. Mounting the grill badge to the badge plate is achieved with two small screws instead. The required screw is metric. Specifically, the screw is a M4 x .70 thread pitch. I found a 10 mm was the the best length. The badge plate will need to have two 3/16″ holes drilled in it to match the anchor points on the back of the badge. The holes may need to be relieved a little with a round file to achieve a full contact between the badge and plate. I also used a couple of washers as shims surrounding the two anchor points on the badge back. Finally, two fender washers and the two 10 mm metric screws complete the conversion of the grill badge to a bar mounting. Fasten the converted badge to a badge bar with the aforementioned clip and the job is done.