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Old 11-10-2023, 06:59 PM   #14333
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I just called the dealership today asking about the panther fender emblems and they said it wasn’t available to order yet after looking it up for me. Where did you find them?
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I'm disappointed with these Panther badges. First, they're wider, ie they run longer than the heritage badges I have on the car now, which is a problem, because the PPF I have on the car was trimmed perfectly around those, so I can't install these badges until/unless I have the car rewrapped in new PPF. But hey, that's my personal problem, nobody promised these would be the same size, right?

However, I can't get past how cheap these look, I almost don't even want to install them. The heritage badge, while plastic, looks much more thoughtful and elegant. The font design is bland, and the panther emblem in the letter R on this one looks like a simplistic dotted laser etching, very ebay-ish.

There is one thing I sure cannot say, and it's that these would be expensive. At $35 a piece, these are on par with or maybe just a tiny bit worse than what you would expect for this much money.

Not only is this 2024 farewell edition a simple a collection of badges, colors, the ZL1-only big wing and various bin parts (for a cool $15K, I might add), the only new thing, the one single thing they did produce from scratch, the Panther badge looks and feels like an ebay special.

I expected more effort to be expended with the final edition of the Camaro, a legendary nameplate of more than 50 years...
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