Vehicle Profile Request

[Warren 1]

New here, and fairly new to vinyl cutting.  In need of a vehicle profile (aka template) for a 1979-1983 Datsun 280ZX.  Have several software CD's of templates, but that one isn't on any of them.  I'm not that good at converting pictures into templates yet.  Can you help?  BTW, I've already used the search feature.

Thanks in Advance,

Warren

[Blues 18]

That might be tough to find all of my template software only dates back to 1993. If you have the car you could take a picture of it and use it I've done that before.

[Warren 1]

I DO have the car, but like I said earlier, I'm not that good (yet).  I'm doing a replica of a famous car and need the paint scheme to be done in vinyl.  A template would come in REAL handy.  I have color pictures of the vehicle I'm replicating, but none of them would be at correct angles...herein lies the problem.  I only need the outlines of the colors as there are graphics within the colored parts that I will be changing.  Nearest I can come to a template is a small drawing included with a plastic model kit, which I've scanned, but it's of poor quality and has ALOT of extraneous lines (drawn as reference points) on the drawing.  Learning Illustrator CS3, Inkscape and a few other graphic programs in the process of coming up with a workable solution has proven interesting though.

I've spent 4.5 YEARS building the car, only to run into this stumbling block with the vinyl.  Paint isn't an option at this point either, since the car is completely assembled already.  Really got myself into a dilema this time.  Luckily, it's MY car.

[midwaste 4]

Take some square-on photos of the car, sides, rear and front, we might be able to help you get the scale down and possible recreate some of the graphics.  Sounds like you are going to have to do the best you can to mock up the graphics off your found graphics.