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Old May 30, 2007 | 09:30 PM
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Your car is awesome! I love it as is!

BUT... I would throw on some red calipers and red grand sport stripes. I don't know what you mean by "rally" stripes...

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Old May 30, 2007 | 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by KMK454
Your car is awesome! I love it as is!

BUT... I would throw on some red calipers and red grand sport stripes. I don't know what you mean by "rally" stripes...

One of the few that likes them and the calipers on black being red are awesome
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Old May 30, 2007 | 10:45 PM
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Dude put the crack pipe down. No stripes for ya.
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Old May 30, 2007 | 11:25 PM
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Go for the stripes, but do them in vinyl. That way if you change your mind later, they can be easily removed.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 12:33 AM
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I like the stripes on certain colors. Your blacks, reds, and whites I think look good as is. But when you get into the silvers, grays, and some blues, I like them. Vinyl is good as you can always try it and take them off if you donot like them. For me, mine will stay on. I love them on my MSG.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 12:50 AM
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Why would you have a poll on this anyway? Its your freckn car. Do whatever you want to it the way you want it. Or in this case your wife; she's the boss anyway. Damn man, your wasting my time even reminding you of this.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 12:54 AM
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I like em, but only on other peoples vette's.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 02:02 AM
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I would keep it the same it looks pretty
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Old May 31, 2007 | 05:43 AM
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Originally Posted by KMK454
Your car is awesome! I love it as is!

BUT... I would throw on some red calipers and red grand sport stripes. I don't know what you mean by "rally" stripes...

This is what I meant by rally stripes.

I thought they called them rally stripes.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by mph1972
This is what I meant by rally stripes.

I thought they called them rally stripes.
Those are fender GS stripes
If you wait for a month or so, I will be giving them to forum for free I do that anually

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Old May 31, 2007 | 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by mph1972
My wife is ALL for it, but I am torn, that is another reason I asked, to bring me back to light. BTW, what about ORANGE and BLUE stripes?
That would be OK, as long as you have Gator teeth put on each side of the nose; kind of like a Flying Tiger.
Seriously, a touch of red wouldn't be too bad, but it would change your look from "mean" to "sport".

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Old May 31, 2007 | 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by RatedX
That would be OK, as long as you have Gator teeth put on each side of the nose; kind of like a Flying Tiger.
Seriously, a touch of red wouldn't be too bad, but it would change your look from "mean" to "sport".
Yeah, that is the biggest reason why I am not for it, I prefer the "MEAN" over the "SPORT" look.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by mph1972
This is what I meant by rally stripes.

I thought they called them rally stripes.
More properly called Hash Marks (from the grand sport). I think they add a subtle differentiation to your car, without doing full-blown racing stripes. Attached are pictures of my 97 and my current 03 Z06 with my own design of hash marks. Visit http://www.torcavettes.com for more photos.





unlike the GS, I put hash marks on both front fenders.


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Old May 31, 2007 | 11:52 AM
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Leave it like it is.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 01:57 PM
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Love the stripes on most cars our Z looked so with out them. Whe she got her stripes the whole car looked alive.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 03:48 PM
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I like stripes, I striped my last 2 cars 95 & 99 Z28s but I think they needed something on that huge hood to break it up! No one hardly looked twice at these Z28s until I put the stripes on!

On the otherhand every looks at the Vette and it looks pretty good without them, but I do like these!


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Old May 31, 2007 | 03:52 PM
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If you want to do som stripes do some of those Ron Fellow's stripes on the fenders!

That might look good on the Vette!

IMHO! only
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Old May 31, 2007 | 04:00 PM
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not me, like em plain.
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