Old rear window Dealer stickers

[Old Merc]

The car is a Peugeot supplied by Reading Garage Christchurch Rd Reading in 1989.( The firm and the premises are long gone.)
Looking for images of the rear window dealer sticker,tax disc holder, number plates. Does anyone know where we can find them or a firm that can supply them. Suggestions appreciated.

[Strugs]

Old Merc said:

The car is a Peugeot supplied by Reading Garage Christchurch Rd Reading in 1989.( The firm and the premises are long gone.)
Looking for images of the rear window dealer sticker,tax disc holder, number plates. Does anyone know where we can find them or a firm that can supply them. Suggestions appreciated.

This guy: http://www.pukardesigns.com/ did a cracking job with some repro dealer plates on my old E30, and he did a running sticker for the windscreen. He says he's BMW only, but it might be worth dropping him a line? You'd still need to research the designs yourself though..

[uk66fastback]

Were they a dealer, or just 'a garage?'

[sim16v]

This company do a lot of old ones.

https://www.dmb.uk.com/search/dealer

They don't list the one you want, but if you had something to copy from, maybe they would do it?

[Wacky Racer]

sim16v said:

This company do a lot of old ones.

https://www.dmb.uk.com/search/dealer

They don't list the one you want, but if you had something to copy from, maybe they would do it?

Thanks for that.


Fantastic website.

[uk66fastback]

DMB did me some plates for my 944. When I got it it had plates with the new, narrower font on and I wanted something from earlier with the squarer font - they redid the plate and put the same small Porsche logo on with Carr's of Exeter on - which matched the rear window sticker.

Then I found out the car was originally a Dick Lovett Swindon car, but what the hell ...

[droopsnoot]

There's a fairly long thread on Retro Rides with various photos of old dealer window stickers in it. http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/139897/dealer-...

I had heard that DMB have stopped doing the repro number plates now.

ETA:

CAR CENTRE READING by JOHN, on Flickr

Edited by droopsnoot on Tuesday 9th October 11:01

[2172cc]

Kos at Pukar Designs is really good and can reproduce most stickers
http://www.pukardesigns.com/
He did some Arbury Service Station rear window stickers and matching number plates with the correct size font for my Sunbeam

[ClaphamGT3]

uk66fastback said:

Were they a dealer, or just 'a garage?'

They were a main dealer.

[Strugs]

Strugs said:

Old Merc said:

The car is a Peugeot supplied by Reading Garage Christchurch Rd Reading in 1989.( The firm and the premises are long gone.)
Looking for images of the rear window dealer sticker,tax disc holder, number plates. Does anyone know where we can find them or a firm that can supply them. Suggestions appreciated.

This guy: http://www.pukardesigns.com/ did a cracking job with some repro dealer plates on my old E30, and he did a running sticker for the windscreen. He says he's BMW only, but it might be worth dropping him a line? You'd still need to research the designs yourself though..

2172cc said:

Kos at Pukar Designs is really good and can reproduce most stickers
http://www.pukardesigns.com/
He did some Arbury Service Station rear window stickers and matching number plates with the correct size font for my Sunbeam

There's your answer then, OP!

[uk66fastback]

I think the OP is after what they look like, no?

[Strugs]

uk66fastback said:

I think the OP is after what they look like, no?

Yes, but OP also said:

Old Merc said:

..Does anyone know where we can find them or a firm that can supply them. Suggestions appreciated...

[Old Merc]

Thanks for all the replies guys,I know this is a difficult one.
I have a mate who is restoring a Peugeot 205GTI that was supplied by Reading Garage Peugeot Dealer of Christchurch Road Reading in 1989.To make it perfect he would like it to have the original rear window dealer sticker,tax disc holder and number plates. Trouble is there is nothing on his car so we have no idea of the design.
The other problem is that Reading Garage moved premises three times, started Rootes,and followed the Chrysler,Talbot,Peugeot route. The sticker in 1989 could be Peugeot/Talbot or just Peugeot ? The ideal would be to find an old Peugeot that was sold by Reading Garage around 1989, a long shot I know.
I found this on Google images, but nothing of their Peugeot Dealer in Christchurch Road.

[Simes205]

There was a thread going on 205gtidrivers forum about these being remade.
Have a look.

[Yertis]

droopsnoot said:

There's a fairly long thread on Retro Rides with various photos of old dealer window stickers in it. http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/139897/dealer-...

I had heard that DMB have stopped doing the repro number plates now.

ETA:

CAR CENTRE READING by JOHN, on Flickr

Edited by droopsnoot on Tuesday 9th October 11:01

There's that whole thread over on Classic Audi isn't there. I've been creating some eps files for White Tree Audi Bristol plates but didn't get my finger out in time for DMB to make them. The car came with it's original dealer tax disc so I was able to basically scan and trace that, and go from there. One of the reasons I procrastinated was because instead of using the correct VAG typeface, White Tree's ad agency used some modified version of some other typeface, and being anal about stuff like that couldn't decide whether to recreate the wrong typeface, or use the correct one.

[droopsnoot]

I knew I'd seen another thread somewhere, in fact I think the one on Classic Audi is where I saw the note that DMB had stopped doing the plates.

[Michael-zkhpn]

Old Merc said:

The car is a Peugeot supplied by Reading Garage Christchurch Rd Reading in 1989.( The firm and the premises are long gone.)
Looking for images of the rear window dealer sticker,tax disc holder, number plates. Does anyone know where we can find them or a firm that can supply them. Suggestions appreciated.

Did you ever find examples of the original window dealer stickers and number plates. My car is from the same garage, but in 1986, and I'm am trying to find the same.

[neutral 3]

I've been searching for years for a Pennine Motors ( BMW distributors for Yorkshire ) rear screen decal for thr 3.0CSL that Connery bought new from them in July 73.
The closest I have found is this advert from mid 73.

[jamei303]

Maybe whoever was the manager at Reading Garage in 1989 decided not to bother putting branded tat all over the glass of new customer’s vehicles, so there aren’t any designs for that period.

Pretty sure no one nowadays pleads dealerships to put windows stickers in their new car, so I can’t believe they did so then either.

[aeropilot]

jamei303 said:

Maybe whoever was the manager at Reading Garage in 1989 decided not to bother putting branded tat all over the glass of new customer’s vehicles, so there aren’t any designs for that period.

Pretty sure no one nowadays pleads dealerships to put windows stickers in their new car, so I can’t believe they did so then either.

Borderline date wise.
My 1992 Saab 900 had an original dealer sticker in the back window, and I'm aware of a few others from that time, a new Cossie Sapphire 4x4 springs to mind, but you're right that certainly by mid-90's it had generally become a thing of the past, apart from dealer name on the number plates.