[Transamric]

As I continue making progress on putting back together the back end of my white '71 TA, I need to make a decision regarding which stripe decals to use. I have NOS stripes I bought probably better than 25 years ago. They've been in good dry storage ever since. I also have a set of repros a friend gave me after finishing his TA project. They're about 14-15 years old and were sourced from Ames (one package has a Phoenix Graphics mailing label).
Can I trust the old NOS decals? Is there a way to "test" them to see if they're still good?


(P.S., my preference would be to use as many NOS GM parts on this car as possible, but.....)

[Red80TA]

Easy to test, stick them on car. If no good, remove.

[Transamric]

Originally Posted by Red80TA

Easy to test, stick them on car. If no good, remove.

If it was only that simple.

[65madgoat]

I would not trust old stripes especially if you could potentially damage great paint if glue on them is no good etc.

Best to buy new stripes from Stencils and Stripes I feel...

[Tellyshavilli]

I used nos ones on an old paint 71 ta several years ago . Stripes were wrinkled and coming apart . Laid them on and rolled car into the sunlight and they came out great

[mrennie]

My thought is, if the NOS ones have been stored well and backing paper protected the adhesive, assuming the backing paper will come off OK then why wouldn't they be good?

If the adhesive deteriorated after X years in storage, would that not mean that after X year on a car, they would also be failing/falling off? Maybe that is a question...has anyone had stripes come off after X years of being on a car?

[Transamric]

Originally Posted by Tellyshavilli

I used nos ones on an old paint 71 ta several years ago . Stripes were wrinkled and coming apart . Laid them on and rolled car into the sunlight and they came out great

Do you recall if you used a dry or wet install method? I was surprised to see the instructions describe a dry install. I thought they always had to be installed wet.

[Tellyshavilli]

Originally Posted by Transamric

Do you recall if you used a dry or wet install method? I was surprised to see the instructions describe a dry install. I thought they always had to be installed wet.

We did wet install