Joined: Aug 2003
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From: Colorado Springs, CO
Bikes: 1959 Bottecchia Milano-Sanremo (frame), 1966 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1971 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special, 1977 Bottecchia Special (frame), 1974 Peugeot UO-8
Originally Posted by
SR-Rolla
In regards to the hot dog shaped decals, if they can be scanned then they can be perfectly reproduced. Clear scan, high res, photoshop/illustrator tweaks then get them silk screened on trasferpaper. If you could scan them flat I could reproduce the art. I need these decals as well for my '58-'59.
Alas I don't think there is a way to scan them. I only know of one person with an NOS set and he says the decals are in reverse on the paper so that you can't clearly see the imagine until you actually apply the decal. And needless to say he is not willing to sacrifice his NOS decals to do that. On the other hand, I have asked local decal Meister JRrestore to take a look at the pictures I sent him and see if he thinks he can reproduce them. Presumably that would mean some freehand work or something but then he is far more talented than I. So if he decides to take up that task then we may well have decals.
One problem I still have is that I don't even have exact measurements so unless I can get some he'll have to take a best guess based on the pictures I have of the decals on a couple of bikes.
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1959 Bottecchia Milano-Sanremo(frame), 1966 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1971 Bottecchia Professional (frame),
1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special, 1977 Bottecchia Special (frame),
1974 Peugeot UO-8, 1988 Panasonic PT-3500, 2002 Bianchi Veloce, 2004 Bianchi Pista