WW2Winger

Thanks everyone for their advice. I now declare victory !! The badges are on!!! Since it is impossible to drill from the underside, no room, I had to do exactly as Marty suggested. It was tedious, but I finally picked enough body puddy from the back side to break through to the outside and give me a spot to begin drilling. Worked great and is in the original holes. I have been reading this forum for quite a while and this is my first post. Thanks again to everyone for their input.

Thanks Mike. That was my thought as well but then I had visions of paint cracking and other irreparables so I thought I would get some more ideas. Thanks again.

Previous owner of my '71 Z removed the deck lid badges. I now have replacements, but when they painted the car, they covered the holes. From the underside, I can see that some of the barrel clips are still in position, just bondoed over to cover the hole. My fear is that if I try to re-drill these holes, the bondo and paint will chip out and make a bad place larger than the badge will cover. Even using a very small pilot drill bit could result in the patch chipping I'm afraid. If I purposely move over about 1/4 inch on all holes, would that be a terrible afront to the purist? I also can only see about three of these clips, so locating where to drill is another challenge. How would you suggest I proceed? Also, what size hole needs to be drilled to properly fit the new barrel clips? Thanks for the PM relies.