Man shed treasure...

I had a bag full of these USA car badges but over the years they've been borrowed and begged by sons, thrown out by MrsDB and lost by me (the garage man shed is one big tip).  After yesterday's reminiscences I thought I'd dig out some old memorabilia and so far this is all I can discover.

This lot came from a scrapyard in Colorado Springs.  I also got a large quantity of US tag plates.  How I ever got through airport security in those days is a mystery!

The badges are…

Patkin, Chevrolet.  A dealer from Medford, Mass., 1977.  Long gone but the owner passed away 3 years ago.  How the car got to be in a Colorado scrapyard 1700 miles away is anybody's guess.


Monterey was a full-size sedan, top model in the Mercury (Ford) line-up in the 60's.  engine sizes went up to 7 litre!  A real gas guzzler.  Alan Jackson was Crazy about a Mercury.

The Chevrolet Vega was a  'sub-compact' launched in 1971 against a sea of V8's, fins and brute power muscle cars that were still 70's America favourite fayre.  The Vega was a small rust bucket, the public didn't like it, the division building them had no heart for the project and the whole saga nearly drove GM to the wall.  It was dropped in 1977.