Here's a pic' of them on Joe's bug (enlarged) ;-
I looked up what the decals meant and some of you probably already know, but Perfect Circle were largest makers of piston rings in the world but are now part of Mahle Clevite Inc, and Unocal was the Union Oil Company of California and 76 was the Octane rating of the fuel in 1932 so I read! Pumps in the USA have Octane ratings from 87 to 91as a general rule apparently, so their fuel has less horse power than ours in the UK which is either 95 (normal, Premium) or 98 / 99 (Super / Tesco Momentum).
Joe said that most of his decals on his orange SS were from a Parma Stock Car Sponsor decal sheet.
I had a look around and found the following sponsor decal sheets in 1/10 scale for RC cars ;-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SPONSOR-DECALS-1-10-BODY-SHELL-TAMIYA-YOKOMO-HPI-PARMA-/260720692529?pt=Radio_Control_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3cb42a0d31
...this latter one is from Ebay seller topsecret0304 and is unbranded!!
I bought the Traxxas #2514, and Parma #10601 Medium Off Road and #10788 Stock Car decals but none of them have PERFECT CIRCLE or UNOCAL decals on them like on Volksrod's bug!
Help!
EDIT: 30/01/2011 I just remembered that Ebay member screenprintdigital does some 1/10 sponsor decals, and that there was once a company in California called AUTOGRAPHICS that used to do a large selection of RC sized sponsor decals, details here. Even searching Ebay with "1/10 decals" brings in some good stuff with not too much to go through. Still can't find my beloved 2 decals shown above though 8-(
However I have found the original 1:1 PERFECT CIRCLE decal listed here and shown as a large GIF here so at least I can print one out myself on white vinyl for inkjet printers (which can't print white!), plus there is a slightly different one shown here. I have added the bitmaps below. The first one was cut off slightly on the right on the above web page ;-
Comparing this with Joe's bug, I now see that he has used the latter "High Performance Valve Seals" variant of the PC logo. The "Performance Piston rings" variant is 13" (330.2mm) x 2" (50.8mm) in 1:1, so in 1/10 scale form is 33.0mm x 5.1mm. The size of the "High Performance Valve Seals" variant PC logo is not listed on the website in the link above so I've just e-mailed them to ask and I'll put the info. in here when I get a reply.
Also I just found the original 1:1 UNOCAL 76 decal here and again it was cut off very slightly on the right on the above web page, and again here is the bitmap for convenience ;-
This Unocal 76 logo is 12 3/4" (323.85mm) x 2 1/2" (63.5mm) in 1:1 which scales to 32.4mm x 6.4mm in 1/10 scale that my R/C Beetle is. So now I know what size to print them out at. I'll be using my newer Dye based ink Canon MP610 printer rather than an older printer with pigment based ink as the newer printers like my Canon have waterproof ink (the ink used to run on my old Epson Stylus Photo 750).
Whilst I am at it, here is a list of all the other 1/10 scale old sponsor decals that I found ;-
http://www.mcallisterracing.com/racing/page13.html
...they make #508 Fender Sponsor 1/10 Detail decals
http://www.rctech.net/forum/r-c-items-sale-trade/202227-slixx-decals-oval-1-10-scale.html
...this shows quite a lot of pictures of the Slixx brand 1/10 scale sponsor decals. Slixx went out of business so I was told since the sponsors wanted too much money to keep it viable. Same thing happened to a few others. What a shame and a joke. There was a time when it was seen as free advertising and brand reinforcement on young minds and 1/10 R/C kits came with REAL sponsor decals. Then they started demanding license fees the idiots. They should be paying US for putting real sponsor decals on our RC cars IMHO.
http://www.rccarstickers.com/#/nascar1/4546703609
...this is ScreenPrintDigital, the Ebay seller of the same name mentioned above
Cheers,
Alistair G.
...this latter one is from Ebay seller topsecret0304 and is unbranded!!
I bought the Traxxas #2514, and Parma #10601 Medium Off Road and #10788 Stock Car decals but none of them have PERFECT CIRCLE or UNOCAL decals on them like on Volksrod's bug!
Help!
EDIT: 30/01/2011 I just remembered that Ebay member screenprintdigital does some 1/10 sponsor decals, and that there was once a company in California called AUTOGRAPHICS that used to do a large selection of RC sized sponsor decals, details here. Even searching Ebay with "1/10 decals" brings in some good stuff with not too much to go through. Still can't find my beloved 2 decals shown above though 8-(
However I have found the original 1:1 PERFECT CIRCLE decal listed here and shown as a large GIF here so at least I can print one out myself on white vinyl for inkjet printers (which can't print white!), plus there is a slightly different one shown here. I have added the bitmaps below. The first one was cut off slightly on the right on the above web page ;-
Also I just found the original 1:1 UNOCAL 76 decal here and again it was cut off very slightly on the right on the above web page, and again here is the bitmap for convenience ;-
Whilst I am at it, here is a list of all the other 1/10 scale old sponsor decals that I found ;-
http://www.mcallisterracing.com/racing/page13.html
...they make #508 Fender Sponsor 1/10 Detail decals
http://www.rctech.net/forum/r-c-items-sale-trade/202227-slixx-decals-oval-1-10-scale.html
...this shows quite a lot of pictures of the Slixx brand 1/10 scale sponsor decals. Slixx went out of business so I was told since the sponsors wanted too much money to keep it viable. Same thing happened to a few others. What a shame and a joke. There was a time when it was seen as free advertising and brand reinforcement on young minds and 1/10 R/C kits came with REAL sponsor decals. Then they started demanding license fees the idiots. They should be paying US for putting real sponsor decals on our RC cars IMHO.
http://www.rccarstickers.com/#/nascar1/4546703609
...this is ScreenPrintDigital, the Ebay seller of the same name mentioned above
Cheers,
Alistair G.
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