When I see rare original parts for sale on eBay I often place a bid on them. The front badge on my car is very patinated but it is the 51 year old original. There might come a day when Murf gets another makover and then I might want to fit shiny parts on him; but I would prefer these to be genuine.

The shiny new badge arrived; it had been sold with good provenance and in good faith, so no problem there. But when I compared it with the original there were some differences.

1. The red FIAT badge in the centre is integral with the plastic moulding rather than a separately formed piece bonded on.
2. The dimensions of the bars on the "grille" part are quite different..generally narrower.
3. There are no traces of a makers name or location.

It's possible that there were manufacturing changes during the production of the 500F which meant changes in the construction or supplier of the emblem. But I'm a pedant (that's not something illegal) and these observations may be petty, but I hate anything which unnecessarily takes away from the genuine originality car; so I won't be fitting it. There may be a future restoration where it will be appropriate. But if anyone has any images of the same item which they know to be a repro and can post it here for comparison it would be appreciated

Your new Badge looks the same as the Badge the previous owner fitted to my 1974 Giardiniera. Which is wrong also, my 1974 Giardiniera should have an Autobianchi Badge.
Later i'll fit the correct Badge to my 1974 Autobianchi Giardiniera.
I like things as original also
Alan