One of the things that stood out with Lizzie’s front end was her faded AA membership badge so we decided that this would be a nice quick restoration job.
The job to remove the badge from the car was simple enough, two bolts and it was free.
On removal, the badge separated into two parts, the outer chrome part and the backing piece, a shaped and painted part.
Once taken apart the reason for the faded look was apparent, the paint was not a yellow colour as expected.
Time was taken to sand the baking piece and a not quite so “faded” yellow (not correct but does look a lot better) was sprayed on. The results look a lot better:
