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I like it. Put me down for some[5 or 6].
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The only thing I see in addition to moving the underlining down a bit, that needs any real adjustment, would be to shrink the white triangle in the "A"'s
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You already know what I think as they are on four of our cars so far.
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I will take two.
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The only thing I see in addition to moving the underlining down a bit, that needs any real adjustment, would be to shrink the white triangle in the "A"'s

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Yes Rick, the "A" was one of the letters I noted for the exact reason you mention. You have good eyes pal. I've been doodling with that "A" a little bit for a couple of days and below is the sdjustment I have made. That's as close as I can get that "space".

I actually don't see a need to adjust the "C" after looking at these.

No way I will be able to adjust the underline with the software I have. It is what it is.


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Don, after seeing your comparision pics, I am now wondering what I have. Here is a pic of my posi label. I bought this back in the 80s. It is a peel-off adhesive type with Brown-Bridge strip-tac words on the back. This is the one I scanned and was going to try to copy, but the background is off white and needs to be cleaned up.

The A and the C look to me as a perfect match for the originals.


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Yours appears to be dead on Kevin.
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Thanks Don. Maybe I will try to copy it again.
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I’ve done some fine tuning on this and feel like this is as good as it’s going to get. This included the vertical alignment of the starting and ending letters for each word to the lines above and below. Spacing between the words was also customized as they are by no means uniform. Specific letters needed to be adjusted as well. All this was done in comparison to the original picture provided by Rick Pauley. Further assistance was provided from copies sent to me done by the “mystery man”. Again, I am unfortunately unable to adjust the “underline” with the software I have.

The background colour is a very light “off-White” like the original. The main large wording is about 1/16 inch wider than Rick’s original. Line spacing and margin spacing is virtually dead on to the original.

There must have been so many of these made over the years. The one on my car has obviously been on there a long time as it was there when I bought it nine years ago. The decal on my car does not have the date, fonts are all wrong, alignment is not right and the corners are rounded. I have been asked if this decal could be done without a date and that is certainly not a problem.

I can print these myself, but all I have are inkjet printers. I’m afraid the ink would just not be durable enough (EG – should you wipe a wet rag over it). I seal clear vinyl over other decals I make, but that would not look right. As a result, I will need to approach a printer to get these done the way they should be. The original “non glued” decals have a very unique paper which hopefully a printer can replicate (thanks again to the “mystery man” for a sample). Perhaps the printer can do something about the underline as well.

So, here is where we are now. Comparisons are again pictured below. Comments welcome.






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