The decal with the blue background was produced by a now deceased member years ago to “fill the gap” for motors needing decals. The original Evinrude decal has a lot of minute detail that back in the day was difficult to reproduce economically. So many people wanted water-applied decals, and those minute details are difficult to reproduce on water-applied. Now with vinyl and newer printing techniques, high quality reproductions are a lot easier to make. I have a friend in AOMCI who has been on the club way longer than most and he spent considerable money having a print shop analyze an original 1929 and determine what the original colors were prior to the effects of many years of oil, gas, sunlight and abuse, that change the appearance. The original Fastwin and Speeditwin had the silver background with fish scales……extremely difficult to economically reproduce. Notice the fish scales are not symmetrical on this original 1930 Evinrude decal. Neither are the ones on the decal my friend had reproduced. The reproduced one is for the 28/29 version.
George
