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By Bill Sweeting (TR8CCA)

Published in the TR8CCA newsletter #48 (Jan/Feb/Mar 1998)

I have been working on combining all the Photos and written words from both the Coupe and Convertible original sales brochures.

I have created a Poster approx. 36" X 24". I have a Photo Quality Epson printer and have made two posters so far. It is made up of 12 sheets of Glossy ink jet paper cut and aligned together to make this 24x36 poster.

When it is in a poster frame (under plexiglas) the seams are not very noticeable at all and you can read all the writing on all the pages of the sales brochure. It takes me 2 hours to match registration and join the 12 sheets so that the overlaped seams are nearly invisible.

I have been working on this project for 5 years. I received the copyright permision to do 100 Posters in October of 1993 from the British Heritage Trust.

[TR8 poster]

Click on picture to enlarge!

Pre Production art work and only 100 posters was the show stopper back in 1993. Now I have the software on my computer to make this Collage Image and do all the art work myself. This is now all done and I have a master file that is 92MB in size all retouched and ready for pre press.

I need to know what kind of demand for this poster there would be??? I am shooting for an Approx. $40 each without the poster frame. Poster frames 24 x 36 are around $10-15.

The next step, if there is enough interest, would be to contact printers and have a run of posters made by a printer either on a wide body ink jet printer or via printing process.

The $40.00 figure is what I would charge if there is so little interest and somebody wants me to do one for them. I will of course have the poster with me at Carlisle and other shows so you can see it first hand. At the accompanying webpage there's is a JPG picture (864x624) of the poster.

Contact me, Bill Sweeting via phone or mail or email if you want one. If I get a lot of interest I will go and contact printers in the Rochester Area and get pricing. If there is no interest than I have a one of a kind poster.

Bill Sweeting (TR8CCA Memberships/Mailing List)
Email          : bsweeting@aol.com
Phone          : 716 - 244 - 9693 (that's in Rochester!)
Snail mail     : 266 Linden Street, Rochester, New York 14620
TR8CCA Website :
http://team.net/TR8/tr8cca/