2 Strokes Down Under

Pushing the boat out and spending my kids inheritance a bit in advance.
Have given a set of LC bodywork to a local good quality car repair place to price up rub down and spray up.
Have a Mars Bar set of decals with it.
Have used this crash repair place several times for our accident-magnet cars and they are run by a very pleasant bloke with OCD.
With the previous experiences and conversations I believe the relationship I have built up with him should set things up well.

Has anyone gone to the trouble of working out measurements or a template for the exact correct placement of the decals?

For example I see resto's with the stripes around the knee dents placed strangely and it jarrs my eye, but I haven't seen an unrestored LC since they came out, and I have little frame of reference. They almost certainly came out uniformly from the factory, so my only "sure" ref are the original Yamaha marketing photo's but these don't get all that close in.

Getting the other question out of the way, IF he comes back with a workable price I'm getting him to lacquer over all decals for longevity, the bike is to be nice over and above being exactly period correct.

have a look at the pics on Xavier's rd350lc.net site for pics. I dont think anyone has ever done measurements...

His pics are about as good as it grts - invaluable resource

yep. thats what i was thinking, OEM yam in high res.

Considerable thanks due to Mark on RD LC Crazy forum, large set of photos with a tape measure

Remember tho D, they were done by hand when new, so differ by who did it.

Well aware Jonny boy, but this gives me a good start point.
Thinking of getting on an LC only forum and starting a fight by telling them I’m going to have the decals lacquered over.

haha, you can do that if you like. dont think anyone would arc up really. lots do it.