Display Board for Car Shows

[Tom H.]

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What info does everyone put on their show board?
Thanks
Mark

Usually options, history, some photos and any major awards the car might have won !

[James G.]

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In 1974 Automobile Quarterly was doing a piece on the 300SL and they selected one of my cars to photograph for the article. Unbeknownst to me, using a picture of my car AQ also made a poster of the 300SL which they distributed for many years and which I did not discover until the 1986 Historic Races at Laguna Seca (I bought several). The upshot of this is a very nice display board for use at shows and certainly a novel conversation item. Excuse the quality of the picture, my "display board" is now hanging on the wall of my garage, it is raining, natural light is low and I had to move far to the side to avoid reflection from the flash - but you get the idea that all of the statistics relative to the car are included. Also included is a picture of the car from last autumn to show it is still intact.

Beautiful 300 SL Edward. Do you still own the car?One of my all time favorites.

[John H.]

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In 1974 Automobile Quarterly was doing a piece on the 300SL and they selected one of my cars to photograph for the article. Unbeknownst to me, using a picture of my car AQ also made a poster of the 300SL which they distributed for many years and which I did not discover until the 1986 Historic Races at Laguna Seca (I bought several).

Ed -

Was that cutaway illustration on the poster done by David Kimble, or James Allington, or Yoshihiro Inomoto? I've done a lot of work with David Kimble over the years.

[Brant H.]

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I highly recommend Troy at http://customshowboards.com/ . In my opinion, his creativity just stands out from the others.

[Bob B.]

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I plan on getting a display board for use at car shows. Any sugestions on a good place to get one?

Mike

Mike I had one done this year by a guy here in Fl. I am more than pleased with the results. He put it on a 24x32 alum sheet and also does a condensed version for T shirts. Bob

[Edward B.]

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John: Cutaway drawing was done by Inomoto. Same drawing as that used in the Second Quarter, 1975 issue of Automobile Quarterly (Vol. 18, No.2) which has two separate articles on the 300SL. One of the pieces was written by John Fitch who spent the good part of a day tossing one of my cars around the Lime Rock circuit so as to reacquaint himself with the SL's handling characteristics in preparation for his writing the article. I have lots of photos from that autumn day in 1974.

[Edward S.]

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Over the years I have always used a company called "Flash Cards" you can reach them at www.showboards.com - they do great work. On mine besides a certain amount of photos and a total production number. I have them make 5 columns listing the following This is off my board for my 65)

RPO DISCRIPTION ORDERED % PRICE

L78 425 TURBOJET 2157 9 286.45
19437 COUPE 8186 34 4233.00
N14 SIDE EXH. 759 3 131.65

At the bottom of the price column I give the total cost of the car and under that I list the awards the car has won. This format answers just about anything people want to know about the car. Good luck.

[Chuck L.]

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Interesting to note GM reduced the price of a Corvette 20% from '53 to '54. If they did that today they could seel a ton of cars!

[John H.]

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John: Cutaway drawing was done by Inomoto. Same drawing as that used in the Second Quarter, 1975 issue of Automobile Quarterly (Vol. 18, No.2) which has two separate articles on the 300SL. One of the pieces was written by John Fitch who spent the good part of a day tossing one of my cars around the Lime Rock circuit so as to reacquaint himself with the SL's handling characteristics in preparation for his writing the article. I have lots of photos from that autumn day in 1974.

Ed -

Thanks! I have that issue of AQ (I have them all from the very beginning - charter subscriber, still get it with my name on the cover every quarter); will dig it out and re-acquaint myself with the Inomoto cutaway.