Well...I did it. See for yourself.

[MOstang]

As you know with returning my 1993 Missouri State Highway Patrol SSP to in-service condition this past March, I have been using emblems purhcased from the MSHP mounted on magnets. Well I've been through a summer displaying my SSP with the magnets and after careful consideration decided to hard mark my car.

During the project phase I went through the process of having it stripped of the DARE B&W color and returned to original white from MSHP days. So it just seemed to make sense to hard mark to avoid the inevitable clouding of the paint the magnets seem to end up doing. While it did seem to be less stressful knowing emblems on magnets were in my trunk when driving, I have some white colored magnets that seem to work well using them to cover and hide the hard marked emblems.

It does seem to look pretty good hard marked, but you be the judge. The emblems were just mounted today and the weather is horrible so pardon the rushed picture without a nice pose and background. As a side note the emblems were (as ones I have on magnets) purchased directly from the MSHP supplier. Thank you.