Re: [CR]Seeking good photos of 531 decals

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Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 13:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Seeking good photos of 531 decals
To: john@os2.dhs.org, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: 6667


Thanks, that's a pretty extensive collection of the TI-era decals, including the one used by Schwinn and others who were super-cautious not to state that the forks and stays were butted. Among the few I don't see here are two variations of what I believe were decals for the same tubeset. I think the Special Lightweight decal also came in a version that called it "531 SL". There was also a "531 Pro" which may have been the same thing. I also thought the original 753 decal had the numbers on a slant with the name "Reynolds" imposed over the numbers, like the 531 DB decal, but maybe this was a pre-TI decal. I seem to recall the "3" in the original 753 decal was hard to read.

Regards,

Jerry Moos Houston, TX

John Thompson <JohnThompson@new.rr.com> wrote: I just took a high-res (600dpi) scan of a page in my old "Top Tubes" book from Reynolds. These are the "old style" decals; perhaps this will help? These look pretty good here even at full-screen enlargement.

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/0531.jpeg

NB: 1.6MB download; not recommended for dial-up,

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA