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Hi Norwood, I have been waiting on the Trans Am letters to include in the package for review. I'm hoping to have these by week's end.

We are working on the blue stripes now and have noticed the color of the NOS blue stripe (blue/aqua) is a different shade than the blue in the NOS Trans Am letters (blue/sky blue).

If anyone has a repro. blue stripe they wouldn't mind shipping to me, I'd appreciate it so we can compare the repro blue color with the NOS color. I just need a trunk or spoiler stripe to compare.

I have returned everyone's stripes they put on loan for this project, except the NOS white stripe with the dot fade pattern. We are using that stripe to create the dot fade for the blue stripes.

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Proof of Trans Am letters.

The 455 H.O. wasn't quite ready for prime time

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Here are some .pdf artwork of the blue stripes with gradient (dot fade) pattern, and a couple of pictures of NOS stripes for comparison.

The blue stripe printed proofs will be made in the coming weeks.

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First proofs of the blue stripes. Blue color is not right yet, but close. Also, the dot fade in the corners needs to be rounded instead of cornered.

I have a proof set of stripes ready to ship to Norwood next week. I'm going to take a proof set to the 'Run to the Alamo' at Harris Hill Raceway this Saturday Feb. 18 to show them to anyone who would like to take a look.

http://americanstreetcarseries.com/?page_id=207

If you are going on the Run feel free to PM me so I can look for you there.

Then, Monday I'll ship them to Craig for him to check out.

Attached are some pictures of the blue proof next to a NOS stripe.

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One cool opportunity to utilize the artwork will be to create one off custom colored stripes digitally. These are based on the black and white stripe pattern. This can be done fairly cost effectively so single sets or even portions of a set such as the hood stripe only or bird only can be made in custom colors easily. All that will be needed is the PMS color you would like to have on the stripes. The only constraint is white cannot be one of the color choices. It's the white color that forces the concour stripes to be screen printed vs. digitally printed.

These will be printed on the same clear 3M ControlTac film that the concours stripes will be printed on.

Since these are digital and not silk screened, I can do these now.

If anyone is interested in a set, let me know. I'd like to work with you to make a color selection and get a set applied on a car to see how the custom colors would look on a silver, red or other colored car.

Attached are some pictures of a few sample rear deck stripes I made just experimenting with color combinations to see how they would look.

The black/gray stripe is Black and PMS Cool gray 4
The gray/gray stripe is Cool Gray 9 and Cool gray 3
The gray/red stripe is Cool gray 7 and PMS 193
The black/red stripe is black and PMS 186

Here is a sample PMS color chart to compare how the colors look on a chart and in print:
http://www.theexecutivestores.com/PMS_Color_Chart.htm

I would welcome any comments or feedback on this topic.