We all know what a good paint job does for our Vettes, but let see "the little added touch" that we have done by our painter. Let's send in your pictures of the various pinstriping that we all did. This should be a great Thread for all.

 

My 69 she's so fine. Very subtle LT1 style stripe only.
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Zoix
Your car looks great. I like the subtle stripe. It really stands out on that black background.

I for one would like to see more cars posted to this thread .

 

I'm cheap and used vinyl tape.

 

Thank you manofsteel. I just painted my car and was thinking of starting a thread myself on this subject but you beat me to it. I had a dual stripe along the crest of the fender lines, front and rear. This is about the only photo of it I can find.



The newly painted car looks kind of naked without it so I am casting about for a method to redo it. The stripe shown was painted by a guy who called his business "yipes stripes". Looked around to see if I could find him and discovered he now has relocated to Beverly Hills 90210 and calls himself "stripe-meister". Business must be real good.

Hmmm, just checked his domain and he's no longer there. That's recent.

Found another guy at pinheadlounge.com/lunaticcustoms but haven't contacted him yet. Says he works in the SF Bay Area so that's a possibility.

Has anybody done this themselves? I have a little glass bottle with a brass wheel on it to lay down paint but have never tried it out. Looks pretty old, it's been in the garage for years. I might experiment a bit with it.

I think people do this professionally with special brushes and it is probably a rather specialized skill not for amateurs like me.

The other possibility is decals a la 3M and such but that's not for me either.

I also have a new hood. Was small block, now it's this and looks like a blank slate for some cool stripes along the LT-1 look.

 

Great looking vettes. A lot of imagination for pinstriping. Let's keep this going and more join in with pictures. Thanks

 

Zoix, your car looks great. I have been looking at doing something very similar to my 72 only Bryar Blue with a white strip. Thanks for the pic.

 

Does this striping count?

 

Absolutely beautiful! Besides the hood, do we have anyone with pinstriping else where on the car. Keep them coming

 

Not mine, but I see this one every now and then. Probably not what you have in mind for pinstriping, but ...

 

I always thought it would be cool to be able to do these kinds of stripes myself. But from what I understand, it takes years to get proficient at even simple lines, not to mention striping like these.

 

Here's my 72 in the garage. I am getting ready to apply the LizardSkin to the interior in this picture.



Here's a shot where we are contemplating the fiberglass rear bumpers.



Hree's the hood.





Here's the t-top before I installed the stainless trim.





Here's the rear deck while she was stil lin the paint booth.

 

Here's my '74.

 

 

From shop that painted car in early 70s. Connecticut location