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Originally Posted by 1971455HO
This is great news. Congratulations on hopefully becoming a GM licensed vendor. A lot of guys have been counting on you. if I understand what you wrote, you are stating $408.00 for stripes only? I have a white car and I've been interested since you started. Mine has whatever brand Ames sells. I think their PG. They look good, but, I'm sure Mr. Norwood would spot any flaws from across a parking lot LOL. I do need some help or advice from any of you. Who... is good at installing these? I had to buy two sets because my restoration guy didn't have any experience with early birds that have stripes. He got it right the second time and he probably would again, but I'm just asking for any good techniques, details or tricks on installation, especially on making the transition down through the shaker opening. How hard is it to remove them after being installed for about 6 months and not hurt your paint? Any Ideas guys.
But, to confirm my answer 165th, if you finally got them looking right, yeah, I want a set of stripes for a white car.
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Great, thanks for noting your interest! The sales price will be for a full kit, including all the stripes, nose bird, letters, 455H.O. and plastic squeegee for application.
Regarding removal, there is a product 3M makes that can be sprayed on decals to aid in removing them without harming the paint. I'm not sure what it is, but I guess I may need to know that!
Regarding application of the new stripes, I am also now an official distributor of Rapid Tac products. I will be offering their 4 oz spray Rapid Prep and Rapid Tac for those of us who are doing one time installs. Soap and water, water with alcohol... all those techniques are good inexpensive "techniques" of wetting the surface for application, but the amateur may not get it right.... So that's why I believe in the Rapid Tac products. Since this is an expensive one time shot, you might as well stay with the best.
Watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMo2A...layer_embedded
and it should give you some confidence it can be done. Here is their website:
http://rapidtac.com/
I'll have pricing and availability with the stripes later this month.
Finally, regarding placement, I like how KeePat did it. You can see his application tricks on the sticky on the top of this board. The Rapid Tac folks are using a grease pencil to make match marks which is also a good tip.
666, can you post a picture or two of your technique?