{"id":103,"date":"2019-10-21T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/?p=103"},"modified":"2024-06-14T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:07:24","slug":"lizzies-aa-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Lizzie&#8217;s AA Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the things that stood out with Lizzie&#8217;s front end was her faded AA membership badge so we decided that this would be a nice quick restoration  job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The job to remove the badge from the car was simple enough, two bolts and it was free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"916\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4051_edited-916x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4051_edited-916x1024.jpg 916w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4051_edited-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4051_edited-768x858.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4051_edited.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><figcaption>The badge free from the car, showing how &#8220;faded&#8221; it looked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On removal, the badge separated into two parts, the outer chrome part and the backing piece, a shaped and painted part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4052_edited-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4052_edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4052_edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4052_edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4052_edited-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4052_edited-1200x1199.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4052_edited.jpg 1237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>And the reason it looks faded&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once taken apart the reason for the faded look was apparent, the paint was not a yellow colour as expected.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time was taken to sand the baking piece and a not quite so &#8220;faded&#8221; yellow (not correct but does look a lot better) was sprayed on.  The results look a lot better:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"879\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/repainted-badge-879x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/repainted-badge-879x1024.jpg 879w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/repainted-badge-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/repainted-badge-768x894.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/repainted-badge.jpg 966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/><figcaption>A cruel close up showing a couple of blemishes &#8211; best not to look too close.  The yellow is incorrect but better than what was there before.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4061-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4061-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4061-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4061-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_4061.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption>And back where it belongs, looking a little more vibrant that it did before, if a little blurred. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that stood out with Lizzie&#8217;s front end was her faded AA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parts-restoration","wpcat-12-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzie-the-anglia.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}