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MrNorm
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ECS Automotive are the runaway leaders when it comes to sticker repos. You can get em elsewhere (e.g. Performance Car graphics) but you would be surprised at the difference in ECS and the others - they really are reproductions of the original, not just a reasonable copy.

I think they even recreate your own original exactly, including wonky letters etc!

http://www.ecsautomotive.com/ All the website has at the moment is a phone number, but they'll send you a catalogue.
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ECS do the best for exact cpoies, but for service etc you can't beat PCG, they are a fantasic company to deal with.

The V.I.N. label you are referring to willnot come off in one piece, it is designed to self destruct on removal, if you send Dave at PCG a copy of the log book, a rubbing of the vin and a pic of the door sticker he will make you a new one that will look just fine.

If you have a build sheet for the car as you say, Galen Govier can make you a repro fender tag from the details, again you will have to supply proof the car exists and you are the owner.

Point of interest on build sheets, Dave says they were chucked in the cars by lazy workers and so are often the wrong sheets, what actually tended to happen was the cars had sub assemblies, i.e. the dash, seats and body, they were assembled in different areas of the plant and brought together on the line, if several cars were coded for black bucket interiors the set built for that car may end up in another and vise versa, dash sheets are rarely the wrong ones as there were more differences like A/C, tach, map light, rear defog etc so the correct dash usually ended up in the right car, the body sheet sometimes found under the carpet is always correct as it is the master plan for the car.

You can usually tell which sheet you have by the outlines, these are crayon circles highlighting certain things, the seat sheet will have the interior colur and bucket or bench highlighted, dash may have a tach or reverse light called out, body sheets rarely have highlights.

Places to find sheets are:

Taped to rear of glovebox liner, this is the dash sheet

under rear seat or in rear seat backrest , under front seats of ig the car has hard back front seats behing the hard plastic back, if the car has a buddie seat it can be under the buddie seat, this is the interior/ seat sheet

Under the carpet in the front footwells, this is the body sheet.

taped to the roof above the headlining, this is rare and usually found only on cars with colour coded mirrors or Chargers with hood turn signals as these were hung inside the car for painting at the same time as the body.

On top of the gas tanks, very rare as it has usually has degraded, another place for a body sheet.

If you have a build sheet we can tell you every detail about your car from the codes 8)
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And don't forget in the gearbox cross member on Lil' Red Express.
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Ah! So the sheets were put in the seats before the seats were put in the cars Alex? That would explain a lot. Thanks!
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Well don't throw it away nige, there are a number of people who collect wrongly distributed buildsheets and hold them so the right owners can find 'em. Mostly only for rare or valuable cars I suspect.
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DVLA do not care what condition your car is in. You can get it running and MOTed later. On the rad support the number is upside down (so you can read it) on the side facing the engine.
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