THE INTERNATIONAL JAGUAR 'S'-TYPE REGISTER FORUM

And carry on doing that Glyn as there will be others, possibly Joe who is in the middle of his concours restoration, who will want to know about the fonts so he can get his car correct. I am chasing up the decals and there is now a new thread just for them under Miscellaneous where we have found some and their prices.

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As I pointed out to Dave Reilly earlier in this thread who posted the same contact ~ unfortunately a number of their decals are inaccurate & do not use the correct Lucas fonts ~ e.g. the coil sticker.

EDIT: BTW the coil decal Barratts sent me is also wrong so I will look elsewhere. I show correct ones early in the thread.
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Again Glyn most of us are not going to show our cars so the font differences are of no consequence as long as we have a decal sticker where a decal sticker should be. Most of the shows I and other members go to are judged by classic car club members who are just looking to see if the car is well looked after and having decals in the engine bay is a bonus. Most have never seen an S Type as they are so rare at shows. I have polished the brass header on my radiator which should be painted black as standard but my judges and the general public love it as it shows I have put some work in to the engine bay. I just need some decals as I have none at the present moment.
Looking for perfection is not of interest to me and as you have stated many a time there is no definitive S Type and that possibly goes with the decals as well.
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Fully understood Rob. I'm just pointing it out for those that are preparing cars that might be judged one day for the sake of completeness. Encouraged by Mr Wiedie who is applying the 30 in yellow crayon to his regulator cover as we speak!

I will always come from the position that if it's worth doing that it's worth doing well.

I don't expect others to follow my ways. It's their car to do with exactly as they wish without influence. :)

Why thank you Jose.

Cass, I love that polished brass radiator top. Awesome.

[quote="Glyn Ruck" post_id=2078 time=1549104361 user_id=175]
As I pointed out to Dave Reilly earlier in this thread who posted the same contact ~ unfortunately a number of their decals are inaccurate & do not use the correct Lucas fonts ~ e.g. the coil sticker.

EDIT: BTW the coil decal Barratts sent me is also wrong so I will look elsewhere. I show correct ones early in the thread.
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Again Glyn most of us are not going to show our cars so the font differences are of no consequence as long as we have a decal sticker where a decal sticker should be. Most of the shows I and other members go to are judged by classic car club members who are just looking to see if the car is well looked after and having decals in the engine bay is a bonus. Most have never seen an S Type as they are so rare at shows. I have polished the brass header on my radiator which should be painted black as standard but my judges and the general public love it as it shows I have put some work in to the engine bay. I just need some decals as I have none at the present moment.
Looking for perfection is not of interest to me and as you have stated many a time there is no definitive S Type and that possibly goes with the decals as well.

I'd love to see some of those photos of David Reilly's original engine bay, Alan - or David, if you still have them to hand.

As I pointed out to Dave Reilly earlier in this thread who posted the same contact ~ unfortunately a number of their decals are inaccurate & do not use the correct Lucas fonts ~ e.g. the coil sticker.

EDIT: BTW the coil decal Barratts sent me is also wrong so I will look elsewhere. I show correct ones early in the thread.

Cass and Glyn,
look at the topic with link posted by John Gosnell titled "Decals".

Thank you to Alan for the photos, David for the date info and Glyn's clarification. All brilliant information.
I will now have to trawl the internet to find them all, maybe buy a bunch of each and make up some decal packs for the S Type.

Rob,
Even Aston Martin changed to the 5SJ plastic washer bottle. It was just a running change during production that Dave Reilly has kindly provided a date for. Plastic bottle was fitted standard to my late 1965 CDA production car.