Has anyone an original or good repro window sticker they could do a scan of and send to me. I'd like to reproduce one from my PHS info for the fun of it and for the odd show I go to....

I have a repop I got from the PHS place....
I can scan... I still have your email from this am...."Stimulus" mail...lol

of course its pretty inexpensive from PHS, you may spend more making one??

its sent!

I have a repro from PHS.

PM me with your email address and I can PDF it to you tomorrow.

I have my original too if you would like a copy of it.

Thanks guys....I know PHS can do it for about $40 bucks plus, but I figured I would give it a try for those evenings when I have little to do....or more truthfully, just feel like sitting on my @ss.

I also have a high quality scan of an original blank one. I filled in my options from my PHS, printed it out, wrinkled it up, placed in a cookie sheet and poured enough water in the pan to cover the printed sheet. Then I placed a tea bag on the cookie sheet and let it sit for about 30 mins. This creats a yellow/aged piece of paper that looks to be about 40+ years old.

At the Pontiac show last week everyone thought I had found it under the seat. LOL I did confess that I had made the entire thing and no one beleived me! LOL

What I really need is the pricing for each individual option. Anyone have that info?

That would help me to, as would your HQ scan! I'm going to start putting the info together from my PHS tonight, and see what individual option pricing I need...I like the tea bag effect....my kids have done it for some school projects and it works well.

No comments about tea baggin either, that is a different kind of web site other than this one. LOL

The '68 Sales Album here on Geoff's site is a good source for that.
See: http://www.oakmediacreations.com/firebird/1968/sales_manual/t_index.html

Great thanks. I looked and was unable to find that info, thanks for the link!

I am scanning the window sticker now both front and back. It will be a blank one in a high res format as a jpeg. Anyone who would like a copy shoot me a PM with your E-m and I will send it to you. Sure beats buying the blank ones for $6.50

You may have to size it in your application software to get it to the correct size of: 6-1/4"x10-3/8" from the outer edges of the blue boarder then you should leave 1/8" of white paper around the outside edge all the way around when you cut it out of a regular full sheet of paper.

I printed them on 24lbs paper and they look great. They come out every bit as good as the original IMO.

Thats awesome as is the price list....looks like I am good to go! I have my PHS docs in hand as I type...

My original is 5 1/8" by 8 3/8".

Hmm not sure. The one I have here is an officially licensed GM copy of an original so it says anyway...

Ok, I was able to get all the option pricing from the guide but what I don't see is the base price listing to start with prior to adding in all the options...

The one I got from Craig had a base price of 2996.00 and Destination charge of 72.50 to NY. Intersting thing I did notice on his was our cars are about 200 some units apart!!

I wonder if 68 stickers were larger perhaps?

Also, I have never seen an original all filled out. Do the originals show the option code/number, then description, then the price or do they not even show the option code?

Dave,

Now don't go spreading copies of my sticker around for the world to see.

Joe, if you want a copy, David or I can send it to you.

Craig

Also, I am working on a spreadsheet that will match up exactly with the printed window sticker that I have scanned. If it works, you will be able to plug in your data and print it out on a previouisly printed window sticker. Should line up and look really good once completed.

I beleive these stickers were most likely filled in with a type writer back in the day. I have a Corel program that has a font that looks like it was done on a type writer. Should look pretty decent when all said and done.

Don't worry Craig....it will only go to good deserving individuals upstanding in the society.

I found a font thats close, but will keep looking...here is one I roughed out today.....I got an "old paper" background and printed over it and it turned out awesome, but the scanner did not pick the yellowing up for some reason...

Looks good.

What about hood tach and other options? Now would be a good time to fix it up with everything you had the "dealer" install.

Right?

Good Point! Hood tach, clock.... makes sense!

I did one for my car and added all the options that are currently on my car and using the correct pricing etc. it ended up at $4900. That would have been one expensive Firebird back in tha day! LOL

did you use the tea bag trick?

Not yet, still working on some details... LOL

I need an original to get the overall look correct. I think I have it for the most part...

I have a few original window stickers saved off on my PC. This is one from a ragtop 400 car.

I made my own window sticker several years ago, and display it on cruise nights. The Firebird window stickers were smaller than the regular Pontiac window stickers, but I used the large format (more room to write). My own window sticker can be seen on my web page, and shows the "Pontiac Engineering Car" heritage. One of the things that's VERY hard to do is to get the font to look like typewriter font. If you look carefully at an original window sticker, you can see that some letters are weighted a little heavier on one side of the letter. For instance, an "M" may have the right most vertical thicker than the left part.

I played with the character spacing to match an original, and I also had to drop in commas using a different type font, in bold face, to match what the original window sticker looks like.

I learned all this from Dan Rather a few years ago.

Definately helpful. I beleive I may have the font issue solved as Corel has a "type" font, I just have to get it into Excel. I have the two templates lining up perfectly. One pass prints the blue sticker from within Word, the second pass prints the data. Now I realize I have the RPO codes to the left instead of to the right! Thanks!

Here is my prototype:

you will make a good counterfieter joe

LOL Thanks I guess. Not exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up but hey...

I combined the options my car did come with, with the ones I've added and that is what it comes out to be. A 5k Firebird, LOL Makes you wonder if there ever was one ordered with ALL options? I think the only thing I am missing is the power window option, which someday I will actually be installing on my car.

can you make me some original 100 dollar bills?lol

I just checked mine , and I used Cambria, size 10. One suggestion, you can type in all your options in Word, then use the "insert picture" and bring in your blank window sticker. Right click on the window sticker picture, and select "send to back". That puts all your information on TOP of the blank window sticker, and you can align everything else from there.

It took some time to get the back of the window sticker to align with the front, but after a few tries, I can print the window sticker, turn the page over, then print the back, and it lines up.

Yeah I started out with that in mind, but I couldn't get everything to line up nicely and also when using dollars/numbers without Excel, they do not line up perfectly, they become jagged so to speak and in addition, trying to keep the thin blue line that seperates the description from the dollar amounts also becomes an issue...

Yep, this is how the Government does it too, but you know, they probably go through 1000 ink cartridges per hour at the rate they're going.


Last year, I sat down down and wrote up price sheets for a 1969 Firebird 400 Coupe and Convertible, and a Trans Am Coupe and Convertible. I added every conceivable option to each model, making allowances for the fact you couldn't get a RAIV with a/c, etc. With every possible option, my spreadsheet came up with:

1969 Firebird Coupe RAIV - $5945.80
1969 Firebird Convertible RAIV - $6119.24
1969 Trans Am Coupe RAIV - $6322.84
1969 Trans Am Convertible RAIV (if they were to make one) - $6512.08

These prices are way above that of a even a loaded 69 Judge Convertible. Our Birds weren't very cheap, but then again, you couldn't get a 4-speaker stereo and leather interior on a GTO.

Also, when I am all done and have everything as close as possible I will print it with my inkjet rather than the laser as the laser comes out looking perfect after tea bagging whereas the inkjet will bleedout and fade and look much more authentic...

why 100`s? when you can go all out....lol

better stock up now...at the rate we`re going , you`ll need this for lunch money in a few years...

Bjorn,

You got change for that? I need one broken.

I found it easier to put the pic in first and set it to allow type over the face of the pic.

Also, to get your numbers to line-up, don't just type in your info like a letter. I created a 3 column table (no outline lines) right justify the right two columns (and manually adjust the culomn width to fit in the right place over the pic.

Hey Jim, on yours thats smaller. Is there a form number on the front? The repo I have says "Form 520" (lower left corner.)

On the original that I have, the last six VIN digits were added separately. The first seven are in the font of the options, dealer, etc. The last six are crooked, angled, blue ink, and larger than the first part of the VIN.

I blurred out a couple digits: