68 SS/396 emblems

[ORIGLS6]

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Only one thing is for sure never say never when it comes to GM and what they did especially with small items like bezels.

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Like I've said for years, the two words you avoid at all cost when discussing GM products, especially the Musclecar era.................. "Always" and "Never"!

[jasonL78]

Someone has been doing some investigating work. You are correct on John telling me that about the foil badges. I was told by a couple different people including john that they did come with the SS/396 badges. The ones that were on my car when I got it only say 396 but I am not sure if they are the foil type or not. They may not be original to the car! But I have never seen any on the 68 BB nova's. I am planning in the spring to bring the car to a cruise in the town I bought it in(highland). I have three of the past owners phone numbers and I want them to see the car completed. John is the key to my investigation trail. I hope when he see's the car he can tell me things like this. He was only 15 when he bought the car and he told me all he wanted to was get it done to drive it.

[Kim_Howie]

I have never seen a bear crap in the woods but i'm sure he does. Your right Cumby never say never!!!

[3macs1]

Hi Jason:
Just my take in 78 would some one switch factory 396 badges for ss396 maybe. Would they switch if they installed a 427 in the 396 car I think we all did that.Those badges were nothing back then, get the car running and go racing was the focus. I knew this car we parted since 76 and raced against it many times from 77 on. It had the ss396 emblems in 76 for sure.Unfortunately we did not realise at the time there was only 600 and some of these 68 nova's made but at the same time she was real bad.
To make it more interesting it was gold inside also but I don't know where it was produced or what time of the year.
That did not matter at the time.
Good Luck with your search
Joe

[3macs1]

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I have never seen a bear crap in the woods but i'm sure he does. Your right Cumby never say never!!!

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I hope Kim when you do that you are hunting and not fishing like we were one day. I never seen the bear crap but he seen us crap for sure.

[camarojoe]

Those early 68 marker bezels with foil inserts are cool... I have tried to collect every variation, but still don't have 'em all. There was a thread about the 427 versions awhile back, did some digging and found it:

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[Tarrytown SS427s]

I have a 396 floil bezel with just 396 and black background removed from a 68 Chevelle SS, and I want to say it was an early car, but I cant remember.. Also interesting, our 3D (of 1968) 68 SS427 conv. from Tarrytown has red background 427 bezels, and the Tarrytown 11C-D (of 1967) 68 Motion "street racers special" Biscayne has red background 427 bezels. So I think the red ones were being used for all non SS427 427 powered cars all throughout the model year, and they must have run out?? by March of the "SS427" foil ones, so our convertible got red background ones. It was probably a similar situation with the 396 ones, that it just depended on supply, and supply varied from factory to factory depending on how many cars were ordered with what.
Steve

[3macs1]

Hi Steve:
I was waiting for you to chime in. The interesting part is we have never seen a canadian factory 427 with anything but red, regardless if it was a cop car, biscayne or SS427.Today yes we see all versions up here after restorations are completed since the red ones are impossible to locate NOS. What they were doing with the red ones in the US at the time is still a mistery to me other than more are showing up now on Us cars than 20 years ago.
They did not run out of the red foils in Canada since we were still buying them over the counter in the 80's.In fact I think the NOS set we have for the coupe was purchased around 86.We got one set of the silver ss427 over the counter one time when we ordered the red set but I have yet to see them on a factory canadian car.
Just one of those things we will probally never be able to nail down.

[Tarrytown SS427s]

Hey Joe,
For that reason, I think Canada only used the red ones, and thats probably why they had them all the way up to 86. My father was in the process of restoring the convertible around that time and I don't think he was able to get them from GM the way he was able to get so many other things. While at Carlisle he found a pair of NOS red foils in a junk box for $20, and that was the last NOS red ones Ive ever seen. So maybe the US ran out faster than Canada, but like you said, we will probably never know..I heard about a find by a few people a couple years ago at the Alcoa Aluminum factory of a box full of brand new SS427 foils. It is very interesting how all these extra SS427 ones were here, when by the looks of it factories in 68 were possible running low on them..
Steve

[3macs1]

Interesting do you know if they were red or silver.