Early orange hood crests...again

[levrairoms]

Hi,
I've been searching for hours but can't find a post listing all the details between early first gen/ late first gen / second gen orange hood crests.

From my experience, we can find such differences :
- smooth back / pebbled back (1st /2nd)
- near the front leg : long spike / small spike (1st /2nd)
- short R letter legs in "Porsche" (?)
- small T letters in "Stuttgart" (?).

Does anyone know of a post or other that lists all these details?

Thanks

P.S : I just found this crest (it's on its way, not received yet) and I think it is a really early one.

[Scott A]

this is a 99.9 verified 1974 orange bar badge with long spike.

[levrairoms]

Thanks Scott.
I always thought long spikes were only on the early ones. I have two second gen (pebbled back) and a red 901 from 1974 and they all have the small spike.
Does yours has the pebbled back?

So maybe it was possible to have the long or short spike whatever the generation.
That is exactly what I am trying to find out.
I am sure someone somewhere already did the job to list all the differences but I can't find where.


Best,

[preS]

Original paint November 65 912.

Richard

[ejboyd5]

Original 1969 912 Karmann hood crest.

[Gearby]

https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...badge-question
Although not like yours, it is an original from a 72/73. Not sure what other years.

[70SATMan]

Y’all have to realize that they weren’t stamping the tens of thousands of badges produced using one set of tooling. While I generally agree with the gen differences between smooth and pebbled backs, trying to quantify slight changes in the design to a specific year IMO is a waste of time. The tooling was produced by artists, by hand and there’s bound to be variations between tool sets even within the exact same time frame.

[gled49]

This is on my 73, not original, u tell me. I knew it would rotate.