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NSW 2000.BADGE OF HONOUR?
BACK in the day, putting a Chev badge on
your Holden meant you had a tough rat or
mouse motor under the bonnet, and was
treated with respect. But as Simon Major
relates in his Blowin’ Gaskets piece on
streetmachine.com.au, the rash of Chev
badges on late-model Commodores in more
recent years has given younger folks who
might not be up on their street machining
history the wrong idea. For proof, here’s just
a sample of the back-and-forth that took
place on our Facebook page.Mark Seibold – Chev motors were not as
prolific then as they are now. If you owned
a Holden, 90 per cent of the time it had a
Holden motor. If you were running a mouse or
a rat, that small badge was just a nice touch.
John Brandt – It used to mean something. It
was respected, it created interest. “Oh look, a
Chev badge on that Monaro/Kingswood/ute,
it must have a mouse in it, or maybe a rat!”
Now it’s just a wank.
Tony Hales – It means something now too:
The owner is a dickhead!
Sesh Threepeo – I’ve seen Cruzes and
Captivas with Chev badges – definitely a
wanker alert system.
Tristan Kleinig – What’s the term mouse or
rat stand for? Sorry, this is before my time.
Roly Jackson – Mouse is a small-block Chev(as in Mighty Mouse, or the little engine that
could, etc) and the rat is a big-block Chev.
HQ For U Rodney Menso – Geez people
don’t like the Chev badge on the Monaro;
hope they don’t find out it’s got a Ford diff,
German seats and English wheels – imagine
the uproar! Now if you’ll excuse me, I might
go and take my Street Machine cover car for
a cruise!
Gav Horne – People ran Chev badges on
their Chevy-powered old Holden back in the
day and nobody had a problem. These days,
people run Chev badges on their Chevy-
powered Commodores and every moron
loses their minds! Go figure.
Jamie Parry – LS-series engines aren’t
Chevs. They are a GM family motor, put in
just about everything made by GM.
David Pickering – All the young idiots
commenting don’t know shit. It was an option
from the factory – Chev or Holden. To tell
them apart we would put a Bowtie on. It’s not
that hard to figure out. And yes the clowns
that do it today are dumb-as; an LS engine is
GM not Chev.
Andrew Clatworthy – Look at the facts.
All the anti-Chev badge debate was started
by internet trolls. Before the internet a Chev
badge on anything – even non-GM – was not
a problem. The real wankers are the critics of
Chev-badged cars. That’s a fact.
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