Path: utzoo!utgpu!alliant.com!UUCP Reply-To: british-cars@alliant.com Errors-To: british-cars-request@alliant.com Sender: british-cars-request@alliant.com Return-Path: Message-ID: <9002212325.AA02294@samhain.com> From: akkana@eeg.com (Akkana) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 18:25:38 EST Phones: (415)227-4900x134(w), (415)598-0146(h) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.0b.1 10/5/89) To: british-cars@alliant.com Subject: Re: Misc, Battle Plans Newsgroups: list.british-cars Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu garnett@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU asks: > -A question for some of you racer-types: What kind of adheasive is used to > mount the numbers and other decals on the cars? A lot of these cars have > some $$$ paint jobs, not something you want to stick bumper stickers to. > I imagine you have to change them at times, also. Yet they have to stay > in place in the rain, wash, and at C+ MPH. Autocrossers almost always use magnetic numbers (usually cut out of magnetic vinyl sheets, obtained through big art supply stores or racing supply places). Many road racers do the same thing -- in fact, I think the Showroom Stock rulebook strongly suggests this. Occasionally numbers fall off under high speed or hard cornering, but it isn't too common. When I venture out on road courses with my only-semi-magnetic autocross car (Bondo isn't ferrous, you know :-) I use little pieces of tape at strategic points to make the numbers less likely to fall off. A lot of people (with less snazzy paint jobs) just go ahead and stick contact paper on the car, or paint on their permanent numbers and then if they have to run another number for some reason, they use tape to modify or cover the painted number. Of course, not everyone can use magnetic numbers. The Lotus, Griffith and Corvette types have a variety of solutions (none quite as convenient as magnetics, though). I think Randy Peck's stock Elan had contact paper numbers (I don't know if he ever took them off). A Corvette guy in San Diego has transparent plastic pockets which he tapes to the side of the car with electrical tape, then slides the numbers into the pockets. It ends up looking quite good and won't fall off. And some of the racer supply houses are starting to sell static material which is very light vinyl or something similar which is designed to stick to the sides of fibreglass cars through static cling. These seem like they usually work, though I haven't seen many of them being used and I'm not sure they would work in rain or 120+ velocities. -- ...Akkana akkana@eeg.com SAM Technology, Inc. {pacbell,lll-winken,ucsfcgl}!eeg!akkana