Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: blatant advertisement

Author: John Prusnek

Date: Jun 5, 2002, 10:08 PM

Post ID: 1710383489


 

Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:36:41 -0700
From: "Zink, Rich, ITD" <rzi-@co.alameda.ca.us>
Subject: RE: blatant advertisement


On this topic of decals, most restorations of the white ambassadors
I have seen have made the transformation from red decals to black ones
(sidecover and tank). I'm assuming that red ones are not, if they ever were,
available.
I don't think that they are; I've made a study of decals over the past
few years and found that nobody else makes the correct tank and
fendertip decals to my knowledge. Harpers has the large Ambassador
sidecover decals for the louvered sidecovers, but not for the smaller,
earlier sidecovers which is why I make them. They'll sell you the wrong
ones for your tank, which is why I started doing them myself. I
basically make up the decals for my own restorations and try to sell off
the rest to offset the tooling. A byproduct of this endeavour is making
people happy. I can make them in red, it could make you happy...

 Sometime in the near future I am doing the cosmetics on mine and
am curious about sources. I know Moe told me he could silkscreen the tank
and sidecover emblems in red for (at least last year when I asked) about $25
for each one (puts it at least $100 for the four). So the $50 + $15 seems
almost reasonable for high quality decals.
I talked to someone at Cycle garden a little bit ago, and I seem to
remember them telling me that they stopped silkscreening tanks because
of the hassle. I think they bought some of my decals.

John Prusnek

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