stars on messerschmitt

[trojan200]

i bouht this messerschmitt and now wondering are these stars original to this car or does someone put them afterwards to this?there are three stars at each side at door.at dashboard there was allso this little messerschmitt badge.other side of that reads messerschmitt germany.what is this?

[marcus]

I have not seen them before so I think they are later additions

[richard]

i think it is to show how many triumph spitfires it overtook   3 on the inside and 3 on the outside

[Peelpower]

Typical badges from the 50/60th, Accessories to decorate your car or moped, to give it  a personal look.
These parts were never been fitted by the factory.

[Big Al]

I have a couple of those stars somewhere. It was an aftermarket fashion accessory. I have had a schmitt with the on too. On the boot like fly pottery ducks. THe badge, no idea but there were local clubs back in the day.

Anyone remember the fake bullet holes you could buy. These were reasonably popular on bubblecars. 

[Barry]

I Really wanted some fake bullet holes on my Dads Cortina MkII (1300 delux in silver fox colour).
James Bond inspired I think - Gold Finger time?

[Bob Purton]

Yeh, my dad had some of those on his side car.

[richard]

You are talking about REGENT petrol . with a tank full or whatever you would get a set of stickers with the  REGENT logo and 4 or 5 " bullet holes" . our local garage being REGENT our mini traveller was plastered with the things

[Bob Purton]

Thats right, our local was Regent too. Do you remember the little Esso man key rings?

[Big Al]

Ah, that will be why we had them. Used to be a Regent petrol station and conjoined Pub out at Littleworth. The petrol part has long since vanished, then the pub turned into various forms of pub eatery till it is now an out of town curry house and not a pub. The favoured garage was the JET one as it was the cheapest/best quality. 'We joined the Jet set' and had loads of playing cards etc.

[richard]

this is the fellow bob -