TKR '307 WRC Rally Victories' Edition - change of artwork?

My 2007 TKR2 50cc is the '307 WRC Rally Victories' version in Torero Red with the signatures of Marko Martin and Marcus Gronholm on it, as well as a plethora of advertising stickers for Clarion, Pirelli, etc.

What strikes me as being odd about this livery is that as far as I am aware, Peugeot never had any rally victories with the 307, due to it's lack of reliability, some disqualifications surrounding illegal water pumps and a crash that Marko Martin had that killed his co-driver. Marcus Gronholm didn't like the 307 and left Peugeot to go to Ford.

It seems like a colossal fail on Peugeot's part to plaster a bike with livery about rally victories that never happened as far as I am aware, but anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

That having been said, I plan to change the bodywork sometime this year for a TNT aftermarket set of panels and re-spray them in red, but I don't really want this tacky artwork on it. I was thinking of some more tasteful retro looking Peugeot aluminium badges like this:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brushed-A...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item5660c11540


Or this, for the rear of the side panels:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Enamel-Ch...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item1c3b8d1484


With maybe this, to replace the original lion badge on the front panel:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Enamel-Ch...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item1c3b8d146c


Whatever gets used, I want it to be tasteful and understated, not 'Barry' at all. Any suggestions as to what else I might use such as decals for this project?

 

I quite like the idea of that last badge modified with a French Tricolour around the lettering and lion's head, to give it that old school enamelled badge look. That could look really cool.

 

Here's what I was thinking of for the front badge. This is after a quick mess around in Photoshop.


What do you think?

 

Whatever I use it has to be 'Not Barry' and have a touch of class, while being in keeping with the bike. Enamelling the badge like I've Shopped it above wouldn't be difficult and it adds something to it.

 

3 WRC victories for the 307 and Gronholm, Finland 2004, Finland 2005, Japan 2005 but it never won a drivers or manufacturers title.

Sorry to be a total anorak btw.

Like the badge, I think it works well

 

It's OK Gemma, I just got the impression that Peugeot weren't that successful at rallying and I bow to your superior knowledge.

I am so going to do that badge for my TKR, I like it so much more than the chrome lion badge. I have a few other 'retro' ideas that I'm working on that I may try out on my machine; the old grey slush is working on these in the background.

 

I know that the 205 owned it back in its day, mad car