Folks, the post by musclesmarinara2 has set things in motion which is a good thing since there has always been an interest in such caps ...
The logo in question was developed by yours truly for Niello Acura. The logo was introduced lat April at our Thunderhill event on apparel. Given the popularity and reception, Niello re-introduced the logo on give away caps that it offers to all attendees and guests of our third annual Niello Acura sponsored NSX track event. The left side had Niello Acura with the A logo embroidered, the right side had 3 (circled) over Annual Track, and the back over the velcro looped Thunderhill Sept. 3 2002. About 112 were made.
The low profile unstructured Otto brand cap with sandwich color in the visor was so popuplar that more requests started flooding even from those who did not attend the event. Niello Acura recently made a special run of the front logo only.
You/we have several options in here:
(a) First we need to find out if Niello Acura wants to retail these caps again with their logo .... shipping/mailing individual caps may add to your cost so it is a consideration regarding how many to order .... If not, will they allow us the permission to use the logo for the NSX community.
(b) We need to agree on the style and color combo/numbers. A basic cotton black cap or red cap is not an issue. The more popuplar caps now are the "flex" type without the loop on the back. These cost more than the looped ones. Most cap companies supply orders of such caps in a minimum dozen and multiples only, so having a few black and a few red will be cost prohibitive especially if we use the Otto cap brand (but other brands also make such demands). We do have a small inventory of unembroidered black with red sandwich visor and red matching eyelets, white with navy sandwich/eyelets, and tan with black sandwich/eyelets - all with the loop back. As an fyi, for Niello Acura's THill events, in the last three years we have used navy/white sandwich and eyelets, and black/white white snadwich and eyelets, red/white sandwich and eyelets, and black with red visor and red eyelets .... as you would expect, the most popular and versatile seems to be the black with red sandwich and red eyelets.
For some pics of the flex with sandwich, or the looped with sandwich, or the contrast visor color; just click at the color options (all of these come in either constructed or unconstructed versions; i.e., the front logo area is soft or has some support to the crown - which helps with embroidery):
http://www.ottocaps.com/N_productdetail.asp?code=JATS%3EXGM&sku=OT12-269
http://www.ottocaps.com/N_productdetail.asp?code=JATS%3EXGM&sku=OT22-257
http://www.ottocaps.com/N_productdetail.asp?code=JATS%3EXGM&sku=OT12-270
So if we narrow the discussion/interest to these issues, it would be much easier to promote the idea to Niello Acura .....
Cheers,
Hrant
[This message has been edited by Hrant (edited 02 February 2003).]
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