Chris Wilson Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I have decided to have my F3000 Lola painted in its original Camel sponsor colour of yellow, with the original graphics on the car. It was the only F3000 Camel sponsored in 1991, and I have had a right job finding a photo of it in period. I eventually exhausted all options, then had a brainwave. I thought that I just MIGHT get a response if I e-mailed the fan club of the original driver, Henz_Harald Frentzen, asking if they had a photo archive of his time in F3000 before he went to F1. They did me proud and I am now having a very very interesting e-mail correspondence with HH himself, who has furnished a photo and hopefully can find others. So hard hard will it be getting correctly coloured and shaped vinyl made of the Camel logo and text, and has anyone any bright ideas how to get whatever a vinyl firm will need to reproduce these? I have found a colour code for the correct Camel yellow for the main car colour. Thanks. Pics of then and now below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon F Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Brands of the World You can download these in eps format and get vinyl cut from these files. First pic looks like it was taken in Enna, Sicily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soop Dogg Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Didn't Eddie Irvine drive one of these too? Possibly in the same era as HH? (I seem to remember a photoshoot of them taking place in front of the cars sometime around 1990ish.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 Brands of the World You can download these in eps format and get vinyl cut from these files. First pic looks like it was taken in Enna, Sicily. Thanks Gordon, will have a look there. Are you still in Motorsports? Enna eh? I am impressed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blueangel Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 give my old man a call Chris he has been in the sign writing buisness for about 30 years if anyone can do you proud it will be him pm me for his number if you want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 You allowed to "advertise" camel now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Chris, Daft as it sounds, a lot of diecast toy companies make exact replicas... Minichamps would be a good brand to look. They make exact 1:43 or 1:18 replicas of most racing cars. My thought would be you could lift a transfer off one of the models and have the computer scan and blow it up. Might be a stupid idea but I thought I would put it out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 IIRC our own Tony License knows Frentzen and has a rather nice TAG watch that HH gave him when they were both at Williams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Chris, I would give Graham Talkes a go. Remember him? He bought your red mkiv all those years ago. He runs (or at least ran) a sticker company in Nottingham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvteye Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 MMM camel... such a nice smoke. Roasted tobacco don't you know, like Marlboro. Much better than the common bensons and embassy which are sun dried. It seems crazy to me that these companies can't advertise their ciggys but Branson can advertise a virgin. What's the world coming to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon F Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Didn't Eddie Irvine drive one of these too? Possibly in the same era as HH? (I seem to remember a photoshoot of them taking place in front of the cars sometime around 1990ish.) He drove in the same team as HHF in 1990 for Eddie Jordan in Camel sponsored Reynards. They had three cars that year. The other one was driven by Emanuele Naspetti, who had a nasty accident in Donington at the first round with Alan McNish which took the life of a spectator when the engine and gearbox of one of the cars ended up in the service tunnel. Chris, there was a yearbook published in the early years for F3000. There are a few pics of your car in the 1991 book, and also all the results from the season. There were probably not too many printed, but you may find one at one of the motorsport book specialists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Cheers Gordon, and everyone else who has replied. I'll have a look for the yearbook, maybe somewhere like Chathams has it. I grabbed the .eps files, not sure what to do with them as I don't have Office on the PC, and Open Office just opens a resizeable outline box. I am sure a vinyl man can deal with them though, cheers. I remember Graham, should be safe to ring him, the warranty ran out about 12 years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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