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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2011, 05:02:53 PM »
so an 81 kammback would have what badges?
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2011, 06:00:11 PM »
so an 81 kammback would have what badges?
I believe it would only have a "4 Wheel Drive" badge.  Because my friend's '81 SX/4 is full time 4 wheel, and it has the "4 Wheel Drive" badge instead of "Automatic 4 Wheel Drive."  So this leads me to believe that only wagons who were full time 4 wheel had the special "Automatic 4 Wheel Drive," and all "special" Eagle body styles (Kammback, SX/4, etc...) had the regular badges.
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #17 on: March 15, 2011, 09:42:15 PM »
From 1981 to 1984, the badging was metal and the scripting was different for '4 Wheel Drive'. The 'W' & 'D' were both capitalized and metal badging.

From 1985 to 1988, the badging was plastic and the scripting was different as well. It read '4 wheel drive'. The 'w' & 'd' were lower cased as well as being plastic. Some think it was the difference of being true 'shift on the fly' without the pull down and vehicle not being stopped. As well as having the power bulge hood and 100% being built in Brampton.

Yes, the 81-84 used the Eagle type scripting or fonts.  The later years use the AMC scripting.
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2011, 10:05:38 PM »
Here is a picture of the 4 Wheel Drive badges off Pepe, which I repainted.  More pictures in the Pepe's Paint Job thread.

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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #19 on: March 15, 2011, 11:05:33 PM »
I think the later style was carried over to the Cherokees as well (plastic, all lower case).
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #20 on: March 15, 2011, 11:26:31 PM »
I never knew that about the badging...Thats pretty darn cool!
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2011, 11:04:10 AM »
               HI   that is news to me .see you can learn some thing new every  day..and if you don't it is a wasted day............Don
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2011, 09:02:32 PM »
               HI   that is news to me .see you can learn some thing new every  day..and if you don't it is a wasted day............Don

Well said Don.  Unfortunately, it seems like I have to delete something to add new info.
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2011, 09:45:45 PM »
               HI   that is news to me .see you can learn some thing new every  day..and if you don't it is a wasted day............Don

Well said Don.  Unfortunately, it seems like I have to delete something to add new info.
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2011, 12:03:51 AM »
Im trying to retain all this...I hope one day to be an Eagle trivia master....evidently I have a long way to go :P
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #25 on: March 17, 2011, 12:10:15 PM »
       you are in the right place
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #26 on: March 17, 2011, 08:42:47 PM »
....... and the learning never stops!
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« Reply #27 on: March 17, 2011, 11:11:53 PM »
Just in the few months Ive been on the nest my Eagle knowlede has grown 10 fold!!
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #28 on: March 17, 2011, 11:20:31 PM »
Just in the few months Ive been on the nest my Eagle knowlede has grown 10 fold!!

I think that is what happens to us all.  I know it did for me.  I learn something new nearly daily on here. 
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Re: 4 wheel drive badges
« Reply #29 on: March 18, 2011, 12:24:11 AM »
so an 81 kammback would have what badges?
I believe it would only have a "4 Wheel Drive" badge.  Because my friend's '81 SX/4 is full time 4 wheel, and it has the "4 Wheel Drive" badge instead of "Automatic 4 Wheel Drive."  So this leads me to believe that only wagons who were full time 4 wheel had the special "Automatic 4 Wheel Drive," and all "special" Eagle body styles (Kammback, SX/4, etc...) had the regular badges.

My 81 SX4 with automatic and non-switchable says "4 Wheel Drive".
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