you know, these
i know these supposedly come from the original grand sports and their race livery to tell them apart. ive heard some people call them novice or rookie stripes as well, thinking of doing a set on the miata to go with my wheels.
you know, these
i know these supposedly come from the original grand sports and their race livery to tell them apart. ive heard some people call them novice or rookie stripes as well, thinking of doing a set on the miata to go with my wheels.
why I believe I can help you out here...
whered you order yours from? i think i may go slightly wider then you did, what width is that?
I actually just got some vinyl from a sign shop to make the stripes. I think they are and inch and a half wide or somewhere thereabouts.
^^^^ yep have a sign shop make them.
they used the stripes because with multiple cars of same color on track they knew as the cars passed which driver they were at a glance based on the # of hash marks on the fender.
Well, this is where those stripes originated, FWIW:
1963-64 Grand Sport Vettes.
They also look good on my C5s, 944, GTO, Suburban and F250....
Yes, they were different colors to tell the cars apart (nowadays the ALMS teams have different colored mirrors). They were also only on the driver's side, though modern interpretation is to have them on both.
The planned schema of my 240 includes those in impact blue on the fender... half because I think they'll look good against the semigloss black and half to tweak the nose of the guy in our region that drives a C4 GrandSport :twisted:
should i put some on a neon?
This website gives the exact width of the '96 Corvette Gran Sport Stripes. http://www.grandsportregistry.com/faq.htm#12
2 - 13/16" forward stripe
2 - 11/16" rearmost stripe
Since the red stripe looks good on a blue car, I may consider bright blue stripes on my red car.
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