OK. I spent WAY too much time tweaking the coin slot. It looks good and a far sight better than the original version. The "Free Distort" in Illustrator is very useful, but can be very tricky. I'm annoyed that the artwork is still really pieced together, but it looks fine when I printed a proof.
I was making it a point not to go overboard with the gradients, but I really liked the coin slot brighter in the center. It's a pretty good effect and makes it appear lit.
I set up the marquee to be 12x4 (approximately half the size of my marquee), but also then adjusted it to be 14x4.5 (just print it at 200%). The preview below is the smaller size. The one sized for your cab can be found at:
http://home.fuse.net/abrenner/TokenTakerMarquee28x9.pdfI'm limited on bandwidth, so I'm not sure how long I'll leave it up. It's only like 250K anyway. Sometime in the near future maybe I can upload it to the library.
Is the wording on the coin slot OK? I'm thinking this is what mine reads. It can be changed to match yours if need be.
The only other thing I'm wondering after adding the gradient to the coin slot was if there should be some type of shading on the token. I'm afraid too many gradients will ruin the 80's feel that it still has a bit of.
Here's the before and after: