Overdrive badge placement - estate
 

Adding overdrive to my estate and wondered where the original placement for the badging was on (presumably) the lower tailgate (1967) if anyone knows?

thanks

Jim

Estates NEVER available with factory installed OD.
Nor badge.

That would certainly explain the lack of images then despite the number of cars that are equipped nowadays.
Free reign then.

thanks

If we ever have to judge Volvo's again at a future BKV you'd be marked down a point for having that badge on - judges can't easily see OD gearboxes!

P

Like the merc w123 that they never put the V8 into. . .

Purely as a matter of interest would you therefore loose marks for having the column mount switch and dash tell tale?....presumably so.

Best

Jim

Lose... Not loose I mean

Unnecessary embellishment. You have to buy the badge and fit it either by drilling or gluing. Save your money for something useful.

Couldn’t disagree more...
Can’t imagine you feel that way about the B18 badge, or the fender model badges, or for that matter, the letters on the hood.

i do think if adding a sedan OD badge to a wagon, whether to an early (pre-‘65) or late (-‘70) model, the flat late style badge looks better on that flat vertical wagon rear panel than the early more elaborate kinked one.

Both have tactile and asthetic appeal, in the hand and on the car.

Guess it is a degree of puffery...but at the end of the day compared to the time taken to source the other original parts (and cost) its a small margin of effort to advertise the result