2.2 decal for rear window...anyone make the original type?

[911T1971]

Cars left imo the factory with this decals. I never heard it was left to customers to add them but maybe mfitton is right.
However on all period pics I have (about a dozen), including Christophorus, the cars have them right off the factory.

The original was a square one.

They were originially a dark orange/tangerine, as seen in period color pictures.
Within the times, this color often faded to a yellowish shade.

Dark (ruby) red for repros is definitly the wrong color. Some repro also used wrong Typo.
Decal in post 7 is a repro.
Decal in post 16 is also an (older) repro, and mounted too high.


Below is what is probably one of the best period color photo of the 2.2l decal.
Note its tangerine color as well as its position.



And here another one.
Although sligthly blurry, one clearly can see the orange shade vs. red car as well as its factory mounted position. On all period pics available, the position is always similar.



Here a 1971 factory shot, cars already equipped with the decals



And the detail from the "famous" 700 miles car, a 2.2S.
Here: http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...ile-911-detail
Note how its 2.2 decal faded to a yellowish shade.

[gulf908]

1971 2.2 T press pic - looks tangerine-ish to my ancient eyes
can post a bigger pic as needed

HTH
Dennis

[Jerry L]

Learn more every day, and we don't know about our cars other than when we owned them, 2nd owner of the 71 targa, was supposed to be original other than a engine rebuild, was the square sticker. thanks for info on this

Regards

[tom1394racing]

My '70E needs one of these decals. Who is the best current source?

[targatuesday]

I bought a handful of these from various vendors back in 2018 looking for an exact match to the original. So many were not even close to the right size and colors (including one company who heavily advertises their “perfect” reproduction decals). If memory serves the one I picked from Stoddard at the time was nearly indistinguishable from the tattered original on my car. That was a few years ago but they still may be worth a look.

[tom1394racing]

Looking at the Stoddard website, it seem that their decal outline does not follow the outlines of the engine. The decal showing on the Carbone website and the one on the Aase website seem to be identical to one another and do follow the outlines of the engine. Based on my reading from this thread, those seem to be pretty close to the original.

[targatuesday]

CarBone may have improved but at least the one I purchased from them was not even a close match to the original when it arrived. There were issues with size, typography, and colors. This was years ago and perhaps what they have now is better.

[tom1394racing]

I ordered the Stoddard decal and the one from Aase. I will let you know what I think of both.

[Scott A]

the decal on my car is orange...and nearly flourescent orange. (tho, there is a flourescent red, like the marlboro F1 racers, that looks like orange)
I had a dark red decal, that stated 'made in germany" with a part number, but I didn't like it...it was too big and too dark.
So I just kept looking, for years, and found one, accidentally, that was correct size and orange numbers.

[teenchy]

CarBone's decal looks close to the original orange in some photos but not in others, though my computer screen could be deceiving me. https://car-bone.pl/shop/engine-sticker-22/

This one also looks close to the original. No experience with the vendor. https://eagleday.stores.yahoo.net/fadest2enst.html