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I guess the debate here is whether to (a) use original NOS decals, exactly as would have been used in the day, or (b) get some reproduction decals made that match exactly the bike as I found it. I'm leaning towards the former.
As a side note, Jacques has been helping me to answer this question. He sent me a picture from the period showing another of the team bikes that uses the same decals but in different places – so it seems they placed them according to what was available rather than in consistent locations. This makes sense given their criteria was to show the sponsor (Peugeot) logos and those of his father's bicycle shop which ran the team at the time (Jacques Suire).
Anyway, here's the pic of Jacques at qualification for a national kilometer sprint race back in the day, which he won:
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