Jim McKenzie
1972 850 Spider
I am repainting my car and am putting on the 1974 Roosevelt Motors Laser Stripes on the side. It has been a saga...
I had a set of unused originals (off eBay years ago for $ 30) and as I posted in another thread, when my paint shop went to un-peel the brown backing paper from the vinyl decal, we found that over the decades all the black paint of the stripes that was originally on the vinyl had actually bled onto the brown backing paper. So the paper had a perfect copy of the stripe on it and the vinyl had become completely clear... and useless. So taking Xweb's advice I went to a sign shop. They were initially stumped and just wanted to look at the car...LOL. By the time we were done a week later they wanted a photo so they could put it on their web site
Anyway after much discussion we photographed the still-perfect (in layout/ dimensions/look) paper stripes and re-printed onto new vinyl. The cost was a little <cough> steep, <cough> but I can save most of you a great deal of it it you'd like a set of these.
I have to believe I may be the only one in the US with a set of these, because I think they were only done in 1974, and only done by Roosevelt in NJ. In 1975 the Speciale replaced these with the evenly spaced Ladder Stripes. I wish to donate this work to the board so you only need to pay print costs (NO camera, setup, plot or layout costs which is where the real money was.) So consider these a template.
However I do not know how to upload files. I have four, an "edge.plt" a plot file, the AI file, a PRM format file and a PDF. I have attached an image of them below. Anyone help me get these to a place you can all grab the files from? (And finally I get to give back to the board in a small way , Yay!)
I had a set of unused originals (off eBay years ago for $ 30) and as I posted in another thread, when my paint shop went to un-peel the brown backing paper from the vinyl decal, we found that over the decades all the black paint of the stripes that was originally on the vinyl had actually bled onto the brown backing paper. So the paper had a perfect copy of the stripe on it and the vinyl had become completely clear... and useless. So taking Xweb's advice I went to a sign shop. They were initially stumped and just wanted to look at the car...LOL. By the time we were done a week later they wanted a photo so they could put it on their web site
Anyway after much discussion we photographed the still-perfect (in layout/ dimensions/look) paper stripes and re-printed onto new vinyl. The cost was a little <cough> steep, <cough> but I can save most of you a great deal of it it you'd like a set of these.
I have to believe I may be the only one in the US with a set of these, because I think they were only done in 1974, and only done by Roosevelt in NJ. In 1975 the Speciale replaced these with the evenly spaced Ladder Stripes. I wish to donate this work to the board so you only need to pay print costs (NO camera, setup, plot or layout costs which is where the real money was.) So consider these a template.
However I do not know how to upload files. I have four, an "edge.plt" a plot file, the AI file, a PRM format file and a PDF. I have attached an image of them below. Anyone help me get these to a place you can all grab the files from? (And finally I get to give back to the board in a small way , Yay!)
