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From: Jacksonville FL
Why not both sides? GS folks get uptight about these stripes sometimes but I feel its your car, stripe as you please. I never understood why GS's only had em on one side. I am not OCD but it just doesnt seem balanced out to me.
I like the matte black finish, it looks great on your shiny black ride. Ive been thinking about matte black rally stripes on my bright red sled. And I dont even have a Rally Sport!
I like the matte black finish, it looks great on your shiny black ride. Ive been thinking about matte black rally stripes on my bright red sled. And I dont even have a Rally Sport!
Le Mans Master
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: Ft Myers Florida
A friend of mine has a sticker machine and cut me a set in red reflective fire dept tape, it had a 3D pattern in it.
Took em off though when I started seeing BMW's Camaro's and *GASP* a minivan running around here with hashmarks.
Took em off though when I started seeing BMW's Camaro's and *GASP* a minivan running around here with hashmarks.
Race Director
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From: Color my life with the chaos of trouble.
Isn't it illegal to have anything red and reflective on the front of your car?
Race Director
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From: Color my life with the chaos of trouble.
...and on the subject of hash marks in general. They are not a Corvette thing, or even a GM thing. They were a racing thing.
Here is an excerpt:
The stripes on the '96 GS were a tribute to the original GS Corvettes but those original cars were not the only ones to have the stripes. It was very common for multi-car teams to distinguish one car from the other by adding a different amount or different colored stripes on the fender, no different than the subtle cues from one team to another on today's cars. Look at the pic below... notice the orange windshield banner on 1 car, the different colored mirrors, etc. Same thing.
Long story short is that the stripes were originally functional... not just there for looks.
Here is an excerpt:
Externally, the Grand Sport paid reverence to the Grand Sports from 1963. The car bore an Admiral Blue color with a wide white stripe covering the middle of the hood, roof, and rear portion of the body-the same colors carried on the Grand Sport driven by A.J. Foyt at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1964. A pair of red hash marks was placed over the left front fender. This styling cue was added because, when the original Grand Sports ran at Nassau in the fall of 1963, three different tape colors were used on the front cowl to help identify them as they passed the pits at speed. Red was used on the '96 GS as a styling cue to tie the two generations together.
Long story short is that the stripes were originally functional... not just there for looks.
Le Mans Master
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From: Ft Myers Florida
...and on the subject of hash marks in general. They are not a Corvette thing, or even a GM thing. They were a racing thing.
Here is an excerpt:
The stripes on the '96 GS were a tribute to the original GS Corvettes but those original cars were not the only ones to have the stripes. It was very common for multi-car teams to distinguish one car from the other by adding a different amount or different colored stripes on the fender, no different than the subtle cues from one team to another on today's cars. Look at the pic below... notice the orange windshield banner on 1 car, the different colored mirrors, etc. Same thing.
Long story short is that the stripes were originally functional... not just there for looks.
Here is an excerpt:
The stripes on the '96 GS were a tribute to the original GS Corvettes but those original cars were not the only ones to have the stripes. It was very common for multi-car teams to distinguish one car from the other by adding a different amount or different colored stripes on the fender, no different than the subtle cues from one team to another on today's cars. Look at the pic below... notice the orange windshield banner on 1 car, the different colored mirrors, etc. Same thing.
Long story short is that the stripes were originally functional... not just there for looks.
I know where they came from and why but Corvette was the first factory street car to get em.
If it were not for the 96 Grand Sport, and later on regular Vette owners emulating the look, most people would never have seen them or know they existed.
Do manufacters really have trouble identifying thier minivans on the track?
Melting Slicks
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From: Auburn MA
I toyed with the idea of doing matte black hash marks and almost made red "Ron Fellows" stripses with charcoal gray accents but here is my compromise. Red "GS" stripes with charcoal accents.... next summer maybe ill sack up and do the Ron Fellows
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From: Color my life with the chaos of trouble.
I know where they came from and why but Corvette was the first factory street car to get em.
If it were not for the 96 Grand Sport, and later on regular Vette owners emulating the look, most people would never have seen them or know they existed.
Do manufacters really have trouble identifying thier minivans on the track?
If it were not for the 96 Grand Sport, and later on regular Vette owners emulating the look, most people would never have seen them or know they existed.
Do manufacters really have trouble identifying thier minivans on the track?
