oregon fj
Serial rescuer of old vehicles
Now that the last of the 6th batch is gone, I am quitting the retail sticker business. I've got too many other things going on to spend time packing and mailing these one or two at a time. So as of now, I will only do bulk sales, in multiples of 15 (15, 30, 45, etc.) shipped to a single address.
If someone wants to take on the individual sales part and is willing to start with at least 15 stickers, contact me for bulk pricing.
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Thinking ahead to painting my ‘64 FJ40 FST, I have been looking at various bits that I will need/want to replace when I put it back together. And one of those items is the Toyota sticker on the rear sill that was used for a few years starting with the ‘64 model year.
After a bit of research and comparison, I decided that the available reproduction stickers are not accurate enough to make me happy, and I decided to commission something better. (See the development thread Here.)
My new stickers are now in hand, and are improvements over others in the following ways:
Other repros are quite a bit smaller overall than the original. (See picture of the red truck below.) They are over 1/2" too short in length, and 5/16" too short in height. They would look a touch small on a freshly painted tub, and would not cover the original sticker area on a tub where you were replacing an original without paint.
The letters on others are even smaller yet, and have too much black padding proportionally, especially at top and bottom.
Last, and perhaps most important, the letters on the originals were reflective, and the other repros I found available are just plain white.
It was not cost effective to make just the one sticker that I need, so I had a small batch made and am offering them for sale now. (Mud members who indicated interest in the development thread will be contacted via PM shortly.) If demand exceeds supply, I can make more.
Let me know if you have any questions.
If someone wants to take on the individual sales part and is willing to start with at least 15 stickers, contact me for bulk pricing.
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Thinking ahead to painting my ‘64 FJ40 FST, I have been looking at various bits that I will need/want to replace when I put it back together. And one of those items is the Toyota sticker on the rear sill that was used for a few years starting with the ‘64 model year.
My new stickers are now in hand, and are improvements over others in the following ways:
Other repros are quite a bit smaller overall than the original. (See picture of the red truck below.) They are over 1/2" too short in length, and 5/16" too short in height. They would look a touch small on a freshly painted tub, and would not cover the original sticker area on a tub where you were replacing an original without paint.
My new repro measures 191 x 43 mm, which size was determined by careful examination of 2 different original stickers (or the remains thereof).The letters on others are even smaller yet, and have too much black padding proportionally, especially at top and bottom.
Letters and black space around the edges were carefully measured and tweaked over 8 iterations to match the original as closely as possible.Last, and perhaps most important, the letters on the originals were reflective, and the other repros I found available are just plain white.
And my new repro is black background printed on a reflective white material, as original!
It was not cost effective to make just the one sticker that I need, so I had a small batch made and am offering them for sale now. (Mud members who indicated interest in the development thread will be contacted via PM shortly.) If demand exceeds supply, I can make more.
Let me know if you have any questions.
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