A question about colouring on EB nose badges

[Gambacorners]

In all the period brochures and colour adverts featuring EBs, where the nose badge is white the little strip in dead centre of the badge - at the bottom of the V - is invariably coloured to match the body.
I'm not sure I've ever seen this in the 'real world' ... but maybe I've not seen a totally unmolested original badge. Was that little strip of colouring just a bit of early photoshopping for promotional purposes or did EBs leave the factory with a little bit of body colour in the middle of the nose badge?
Any ideas? Cheers.

 

[sparkywig]

The front badge was Cloud White (L581) until 1970, after this it was Pastel White (L90D). Unless you had a Deluxe model or specified M181 or M521 when it was chrome.

 

[Gambacorners]

Thanks sparky, I'm thinking specifically about the little strip between the bottom of the V and the middle of the W. Promo/brochure shots show that bit coloured in to match body colour but I'm thinking that was just for advertising purposes.

 

[Danbury Doug]

All the ones I've seen are not as you describe (in other words the bit between the V and the W is either white or chrome).
I've not got any period brochures to hand just now, to check with, but perhaps the ones you saw were pre-production pressings, differing slightly from production ones, in that there was a 'gap' between the V and the W, and thus the body colour was showing through?
Either that, or there was a run of slightly different pressings at some stage?

Interestingly the Kombi which my folks bought new, had the chrome version. I know my dad wouldn't have specified that, so maybe they had run out of the white ones, when our bus was on the production line!
The badge got nicked c1986/7, when the Beastie Boys or some similar pop group were all the rage, and featured VW badges in their videos or whatever. :lol:

 

[Trikky2]

I see what you mean about the brochure pictures - never noticed before :lol:

It was brochure trickery - early manual form of photoshop - you can see it on some of the brochures where they did not get it quite right.

 

[Gambacorners]

I'm sure that's right ... odd that they even bothered, just to make the vdub logo look 'right' in the photos. Hardly mattered surely.