Interesting

[modelman]

Whilst preparing bits for blasting, I found a couple of white stickers on the rear mudguard (fender),
I wet it thinking it was paper, but no, it didn't shift, soaked them in thinners, & as they 'softened' I scraped them with a scalpel, there were several layers & the first revealed some sort of parking-permit??
Looking at them I get the impression that they are renewed annually as there appeared more than one.
It looks like my latest project may have come from Colorado, no wonder there's no rust!!

[G-Man]

Modelman

Did you preserve those stickers?

It's always nice to see the history.

G

Whilst preparing bits for blasting, I found a couple of white stickers on the rear mudguard (fender),
I wet it thinking it was paper, but no, it didn't shift, soaked them in thinners, & as they 'softened' I scraped them with a scalpel, there were several layers & the first revealed some sort of parking-permit??
Looking at them I get the impression that they are renewed annually as there appeared more than one.
It looks like my latest project may have come from Colorado, no wonder there's no rust!!

[modelman]

Sadly no,

I would have LOVED to & I even planned to encapsulate them to keep with the bike.
The top & side ones were totally white due to the print being sun-bleached away.
They were rock-hard due to uv exposure, & 'chipped' as I tried to remove them, the heat gun simply shrivelled them & they still wouldn't lift, finally cellulose thinners softened them enough to get a scalpel under, but the vinyl ( or whatever it was ) fragmented as it was lifted.
So it was only apparent after this top layer was removed that I realised there was maybe 5 or 6, the one I revealed was 1970, so the top I assume to be '71, I could just make out '69 under that
& one more under that, '68??
Also 2 or 3 on the side, so they might have been 72 to 3-4?? OR before going back to new,
66 to 68!! I'd love to know that's for sure.