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52classic
Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 493 Location: Cardiff.
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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The badge.... The badge.....
"Veteran motorist 40 years experience!"
Once very popular to signify a "Granddad driver" |
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RotaryBri
Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 465 Location: Warwick
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:28 am Post subject: |
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The badge was for the Veteran Motorist organisation and the 40 stood for the numnber of years that the owner had been driving. i.e. you changed it every year.
This organisation is now called GEM motoring assistance, (the Guild of Experienced Motorists). See http://www.motoringassist.com/home.aspx _________________ Keep Torqueing,
RotaryBri
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Phil - Nottingham
Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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I am a member and have the V badges on my cars - each year I renew I get another higher number ie years of driving! _________________ Rover P2
Rover P4
Rover P5 & P5B
Land Rover S2 & S3
Morris Mini Traveller Mk2 |
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exbmc
Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 236 Location: Derby East Midlands
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: Re: dunlop wheels & NOW A BADGE |
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gillberry wrote: | i am not sure if this is the right section to put this on but we have some Dunlop Wheels as below they are 4 stud, does any one know what type they are, age and what other classic cars they would fit? we have taken them off a 1966 humber
we are still clearing out and took this badge of a Firenza a few years ago it is a bit worse for wear and has a V one side 40 in the middle and M on the other any idea what it stands for?
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You seem to have all you need on the wheels, but nobody has mentioned the badge. It's a "Veteran Motorist" club badge, and someone had been driving for 40 years. I don't know anything about the club or if it still exists, but I started to notice these badges at the end of the 50's I think.
Probably any member would update the centre disc each year, a bit of an "old boys" club maybe? |
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Phil - Nottingham
Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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It is now call Guild of Experienced Motorists (GEM) and as mentioned before year stickers are still supplied by them for holders of the V badges - I will be on 39 shortly! _________________ Rover P2
Rover P4
Rover P5 & P5B
Land Rover S2 & S3
Morris Mini Traveller Mk2 |
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exbmc
Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 236 Location: Derby East Midlands
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject: VM |
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Phil, thanks for that. I know about GEM, but not that it had developed from the old VM club. Actually, I wouldn't have posted on it if I could have seen the other replies about it. There was no 2nd page to be seen when I first looked, and it seemed that no one had mentioned the badge. Joys of the internet!! |
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