About Us
Trim Tags, Inc. started in 1987, in the process of running a restoration shop for Corvettes and muscle cars. Our customers who were doing complete restorations were requesting color changes for paint, interior and convertible/vinyl tops. Also, many customers wanted to add options, switch from bench seat to bucket seats, etc.
They were building the cars to their personal tastes. However, by requesting these changes the car was no longer "numbers matching." Some customers didn't care, but most did!
Our first attempt to solve the "numbers matching" dilema was to contact junk yards and other parts restoration shops looking for original trim tags with the color and option changes requested by our customers. This was like looking for a "needle in a haystack". We'd locate trim tags with correct colors, but the build dates and body sequence numbers would be incorrect and vice versa.
Needless to say the process was lengthy, costly, and very time consuming. Finally, we decided on just reproducing the tags and stamping them to our customer's specifications.
The initial process of laser cutting the plates and recreating the alpha/numerics took several months before we got it right. Now, our trim tag customers can restore their cars to their specifications and still have "numbers matching" classic/muscle cars.
Note: We don't have a problem changing paint codes, trim codes, convertible/vinyl top color codes, or option codes. We will not change "STYLE" numbers (i.e. convert Tempests into GTO's, Cutlass' into 442's, six cylinder cars into eight cylinder cars).
They were building the cars to their personal tastes. However, by requesting these changes the car was no longer "numbers matching." Some customers didn't care, but most did!
Our first attempt to solve the "numbers matching" dilema was to contact junk yards and other parts restoration shops looking for original trim tags with the color and option changes requested by our customers. This was like looking for a "needle in a haystack". We'd locate trim tags with correct colors, but the build dates and body sequence numbers would be incorrect and vice versa.
Needless to say the process was lengthy, costly, and very time consuming. Finally, we decided on just reproducing the tags and stamping them to our customer's specifications.
The initial process of laser cutting the plates and recreating the alpha/numerics took several months before we got it right. Now, our trim tag customers can restore their cars to their specifications and still have "numbers matching" classic/muscle cars.
Note: We don't have a problem changing paint codes, trim codes, convertible/vinyl top color codes, or option codes. We will not change "STYLE" numbers (i.e. convert Tempests into GTO's, Cutlass' into 442's, six cylinder cars into eight cylinder cars).