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attached photos are from Zen Graphics and thought Raptor Racing had them also before though maybe I am overlooking them now

may be a while until I paint my car and working on quite a bit of mechanical issues including but not limited to my hood cable coming loose under the hood yet again

will be looking for placement of lettering along with what color the black P-Type used

also, trying to decide if I want to go with the large lettering or the more subtle - curious also the history behind the two different ones

thank you

 

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The 82-83 had the ‘subtle’ style and the 84-86 had the billboard. The billboard in your photo above is positioned too high

will post a pic of my car, the pics are from the Zen Graphics website and I was told mine is too high also

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Mine is an 83 which should have what you put on. As I recall (same as Spud said,) they had the smaller "Celica Supra" lettering on the right through 83 and then went to the big billboard in 84. But I put the big, billboard on mine anyway because that's what I remember seeing on these as a kid and I thought it was cool. Yours being an 85 would have had the big, billboard but what you have done looks great and I am a big zen graphics fan. Their choices and quality are top notch. It was the only place I found that could do two tone with a main color and a border if you want it. Love mine. Looks good but choices choices. If you go billboard there is the one person on eBay that does the translucent design and one on etsy that does the non-translucent but a bit more correct. I went with the ebay gold translucent as it looks cool in the dark and still matches my gold well enough in the day. If you do the billboard my tip is to measure top to bottom and the sides and mark them off with blue tape so you can line it up will. You may have to trim around the keyhole on the hatch and should if you have it lined up correctly per stock (again in agreement with Spud)...they were positioned a bit lower and trimmed a bit around the "P" on the keyhole.

please post pics when you can and I will post some of my current when I can

thank you

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Mine is probably even slightly high per stock but I liked this positioning. If it doesn't go over the keyhole a little it doesn't quite look right.

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I like the contrast on yours. Makes me consider possibly red on my black. Do you know what the OEM was on the black? I would have thought silver or white. Thank you again.

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LifeForLife's black 85 has red pinstripe that looks great, so maybe that color red in the lettering and then red pinstripe or hockey stripe graphics of the same red would be sharp. A sharp, bright red is what is needed, not a darker red that blends with the black too much in my opinion. See LifeForLife's current build thread.

Gray may make more sense than silver.

Will see if anyone else replies regarding color lettering on black body color.

I did see someone with a nice red pinstripe or maybe it was a hockey stripe on black that I liked.

Much appreciated.

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great pictures, thank you

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Do a thread search on Billboard, you will see many exemples of color and position.
iirc, on black cars they were gray.

will try that again, thank you

 

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not the best one, but took from my intro thread a while back which was a picture the previous owner had

will take some others when I get back to the car tonight

 

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That is waaaay too high!

you had mentioned that in my intro thread too

will work on getting that remedied and still not sure which option I am going to go with: large or minimal

 

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From the '84 Queen on BaT :

that helps, thank you!

 

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could anyone share history of the more minimal rear hatch lettering?

 

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the photo I attached is from Zen Graphics

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that's pretty!

what does GTS mean on the Mk 2?

please pardon my ignorance

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I'm a flare man, myself haha

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pics of my rear lettering done by a previous owner

 

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that is what I am hearing from reputable sources

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you are on the most reputable source for MK2!

absolutely!

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off topic, but what do those who have the digital dash think of it?

seems really cool to me, but maybe there are drawbacks

an item on my car fix list is getting my gauges working again which I have considered a digital dash to replace what I have now just because I think it looks cool

again way off topic, anyone have video of it in operation other than someone testing for speed on their bench which I have found?

 

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the 80s look is definitely what I am going for

thank you for the tips!

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Do you have a link to a video of someone testing the digital speedometer on the bench?
I would love to see how they have set it up.

Dale

I had searched the forum and found links to someone who was working on theirs