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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).
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