wat should the black strip say for example holden on left 5.0 on right or just calais?

holden on left.. 5.0 on the right

as above. Calais goes in the middle (rear centre garnish between the tail lights)

Pics taken from the ORIGINAL thread in the VL Turbo section Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Whilst on the subject of badges (thought I'd ask here rather than start a new thread), does anyone know the actual position of the "calais" and bullet badges for the front guards. I mean how far in from the edge of the guard and how far up from the plastic mould. From what I've seen in a few pics there seems to be a difference between the early and later models, I refuse to use the terms seris 1 and 2 as they never existed. My calais is an '86 model and I have the badges to refit, just wanted to know where to put them. I have searched and there's a couple of threads but nothing too definitive, just rough guesses.

i thought there was locating pins in them.. havent had mine off to be sure but..

only the nosecone has the pins,, the side one's are just stuck on

Quote: Originally Posted by Waughy Whilst on the subject of badges (thought I'd ask here rather than start a new thread), does anyone know the actual position of the "calais" and bullet badges for the front guards. I mean how far in from the edge of the guard and how far up from the plastic mould. From what I've seen in a few pics there seems to be a difference between the early and later models, I refuse to use the terms seris 1 and 2 as they never existed. My calais is an '86 model and I have the badges to refit, just wanted to know where to put them. I have searched and there's a couple of threads but nothing too definitive, just rough guesses. I have seen a thread on exactly that topic, do a bit of a search dude. I know it's out there!

Quote: Originally Posted by freEze_dK only the nosecone has the pins,, the side one's are just stuck on It suck's that Holden didn't put the pin's on all the badge's throughout the VL range. Now you see alot of VL's with badge's stuck back on that look wonky.

EVL HSV - Whats the colour of that blue 5.0 calais... Imperial or Ecumbene?

That's imperial.

^^^ I'll take your word for it, I just pinched that picture from the ORIGINAL thread

Quote: Originally Posted by 5spdvl I have seen a thread on exactly that topic, do a bit of a search dude. I know it's out there! Well nothing of too much help showed up when I did a search on "calais badge positions", only thread was one where soemone had done rough measurements, and it looked to be a later model as the badges were closer to the plastic mould.

Quote: Originally Posted by 5spdvl That's imperial. Cheers mate..

The blue car appears to have a chromed metal badge like hdt's and the red one has the stock silver plastic one, does anyone know exactly what models came with what, ive got a chromed metal one and wanna get hold of a plastic silver one.

The 5.0 badge looks great on the boot of a stocker Calais does it not? Still very classy in '08.

Old thread revival but does anyone know if the vl v8 and vk v8 badge size dimensions are the same? Or can anyone do a quick measurement of their 5.0 badge as im having something 3d printed to match the 5.0 badge and want it to be accurate Cheers

Same, buy my faded 5.0 I have sittin about? 5.9cm wide 2.2 high