Your hash marks are incorrect!!
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From: Sacramento CA
Your hash marks are incorrect!!
Shouldn't there be matching hashmarks on the passenger side headlight bucket, too? I think i saw something like that one one of the original grand sports
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Re: Your hash marks are incorrect!! (carter200)
I thought each stripe signified something like kills or scores or number of times curbed. :lol:
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Re: Your hash marks are incorrect!! (carter200)
Kale, you're right.
In "the old days" when most racers had day jobs as well, these ideas (like the hash marks) were often improvised at the track. There were many varieties. The "official" mark on the C4 is a consertive reference to those wonderful times.
If you see the pictue of my Cobra, They start at the emblem on the nose, go under the "Le Mans" stripes, and over the fender... on both sides. After a great deal of research, on both the Cobra and the Grand Sport, I did find just one Cobra in the '60's done this way. Almost all of them were different, from season to season, and, somtimes depending on what color of spray paint they had, different from race to race.
Regards, Art in Baton Rouge
In "the old days" when most racers had day jobs as well, these ideas (like the hash marks) were often improvised at the track. There were many varieties. The "official" mark on the C4 is a consertive reference to those wonderful times.
If you see the pictue of my Cobra, They start at the emblem on the nose, go under the "Le Mans" stripes, and over the fender... on both sides. After a great deal of research, on both the Cobra and the Grand Sport, I did find just one Cobra in the '60's done this way. Almost all of them were different, from season to season, and, somtimes depending on what color of spray paint they had, different from race to race.
Regards, Art in Baton Rouge
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From: Baton Rouge LA
Re: Your hash marks are incorrect!! (Rob 91Z07)
Rob, they usually were for team or car within a team identification.
Don't let 'um raze you, hurricane. Some were almost exactly like yours, often starting in the front, and finishing on the opposite side rear. I think it looks good.
Don't let 'um raze you, hurricane. Some were almost exactly like yours, often starting in the front, and finishing on the opposite side rear. I think it looks good.
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Re: Your hash marks are incorrect!! (ZR1991)
Kale, you're right.
In "the old days" when most racers had day jobs as well, these ideas (like the hash marks) were often improvised at the track. There were many varieties. The "official" mark on the C4 is a consertive reference to those wonderful times.
If you see the pictue of my Cobra, They start at the emblem on the nose, go under the "Le Mans" stripes, and over the fender... on both sides. After a great deal of research, on both the Cobra and the Grand Sport, I did find just one Cobra in the '60's done this way. Almost all of them were different, from season to season, and, somtimes depending on what color of spray paint they had, different from race to race.
Regards, Art in Baton Rouge
In "the old days" when most racers had day jobs as well, these ideas (like the hash marks) were often improvised at the track. There were many varieties. The "official" mark on the C4 is a consertive reference to those wonderful times.
If you see the pictue of my Cobra, They start at the emblem on the nose, go under the "Le Mans" stripes, and over the fender... on both sides. After a great deal of research, on both the Cobra and the Grand Sport, I did find just one Cobra in the '60's done this way. Almost all of them were different, from season to season, and, somtimes depending on what color of spray paint they had, different from race to race.
Regards, Art in Baton Rouge
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Re: Your hash marks are incorrect!! (ZR1991)
Don't let 'um raze you, hurricane. Some were almost exactly like yours
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Re: Your hash marks are incorrect!! (Kale)
the hash marks represent the ones on the original Grand Sports of the early sixties. these were race track cars, painted alike, and the marks were simply to tell them apart during a race. they were only needed on one side because you only saw one side of the car from the pits, etc. :cheers:
