vintageslotcars Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Hello all, been awhile since I visited the forums. Took off a few years of modeling to race slot cars. I recently began looking for mostly 68 to 72 Corvette road racing decals. I see when I google this topic there are so many famous and not so famous really cool cars from this era. I have searched a few places but I am finding tons of drag racing decals at private sites, some of the big decal guys but I am not finding much of anything. I even would pay someone who produces custom order decals for their time. I thought they would be more common but maybe I am not looking in right place. Thank you for any help on my quest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 (edited) Are you wanting to do a particular car? Probably the most instantly recognizable from the era are the Greenwood "Stars and Stripes" cars. One was available as a kit, and I'm certain somebody did aftermarket decals too. A company I worked for ran a similarly-painted smallblock-powered B-production Corvette roadster in SCCA in the early '70s. The majority of the cars were considerably less flashy, and could be represented with paint and generic stripe, meatball / number and period sponsor decals Edited September 25, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Can-Con Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 AMT did the BFG car back in the early '70s too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintageslotcars Posted September 25, 2016 Author Share Posted September 25, 2016 Not looking for one particular car. I guess I could contact some of the custom decal makers/ send some pics and see what they would charge. I have the John Greenwood kits (and slots) I might try a hardcore search tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintageslotcars Posted September 25, 2016 Author Share Posted September 25, 2016 Bill your right on most cars were pretty basic. Greenwoods were always a notch above most others. His paint schemes were so cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 (edited) If looking for various paint schemes and one uses Pinterest, try doing a search under a number of titles, (eg. C3 Corvettes, Racing Corvettes, Greenwood...) and it will yield more visual references than a Google search.Cheers Misha Edited September 26, 2016 by Misha further elaboration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Laski Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I made my own decals for this one... AIR Butler Corvette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintageslotcars Posted September 26, 2016 Author Share Posted September 26, 2016 Art Checked out your site.Very interesting on the parts. I left you a question through your site email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Cohen Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 VRM makes historic racing decals: the early Corvettes are excellent!http://www.v-r-m.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake45 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Do you have the book Corvette: A Piece of the Action? It's got a lot of great vintage pics of C2 and C3 racers. I'm using it as a reference for a project I'm working on, a damaged AMT '65 roadster that will become a chopped-windshield road racer. I'm not modeling any particular car, just something with the flavor of the times (and something that could have been built by a modeler in 1965-66, more or less), and that book has given me several good ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintageslotcars Posted September 27, 2016 Author Share Posted September 27, 2016 I will check into book Thanks a bunch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizard Racing Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Vintage Racing Miniatures has several decal sheets for C1, C2 & C3 famous Corvettes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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