yep thats what i want

 

Not bad looking...

 

do you have a kit as well or is it stock? i think it helps to have a MS kit or something agressive looking to pull off the stripes you are leaning toward - at which point it doesn't look half bad. i had to see it to fully believe it could look okay but it isn't so bad and is much riskier than most of us are willing to go.

 

Yikes! Stripes!

 

I had that car as my screensaver for awhile- it looks old school, and reminds me of the Cobras and Jags of the '60s.

 

They make temporary paint for exactly that kind of thing. Check out Duplicolor's product line...it's one of the things they keep Product Placementing on "Two Guys Garage."

You can probably find tape-on stripes at K-Mart or an Autozone-type store.

Ken

 

I kinda like the triple stripes in the track picture.... but there are not enough stickers, real NASCARs have lots and lots of stickers for things like oil pumps and RustEze....

 

No, not quite. The original purpose of racing stripes (single stripe on one side of the car) were to show which side of the car the driver was located on. This was helpful after a crash so the crew would immediately know where the driver was at.

You will also note that the rally stripes (2 stripes, think Viper) were for rally cars that had both a driver and a guide.

 

Do it! get white. Looks like a Ford GT or the Viper.

 

That's what I thought but maybe silver

 

That's interesting. Can you point to a reference for that?

Back when racing stripes first became popular, there really weren't any rescue crews. Getting to the driver usually (but not always) mattered, but it's not like there was a system to any of it.

Ken

 

I question the validity of this as well

BUT assuming for a second it's true...very interesting

 

I got this from another site --but lacks truth also:

"Evidently racing stripes entered usage in the early 20th century, as the first generation of race car drivers began to face competition from signifigantly younger drivers. The older drivers, who had more influence in the various leagues, had rules put in place that made new drivers apply a stripe to their cars, so as to mark their lack of experience. If a new driver were to prove themselves competent over time, they would be allowed to remove the stripe. Anyone who had a stripe was subject to extra ridicule and criticism. As I mentioned earlier, I have no idea if this is true or not, but it is a cute little story. The person who related it to me used it as a way to bash people with go-faster stripes on their cars, stating that the people who put such stripes on were emulating the "bad drivers", and that they were a sign of cluelessness."

 

here's one from Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-faster_stripes

 

ok, so from what i've filtered out of this....there should be a WHOLE lot more cars on the road with a stripe. Like, maybe all of them

 

Yikes! So many explanations, none really right.

They do use "rookie stripes" in some series. Usually just some stripes on the back of the car. There's a fairly well known photo of Mario Andretti peeling the stripes off the back of his car at Indianapolis after emerging from rookie status. In some sprint car series I've seen ribbons attached to the roll cage as a marker of rookie status.

In the early days of racing, cars were generally painted according to national colors. Some countries had a single color (e.g., red for Italy) while most had two (e.g., blue and white for the US). The bodywork was painted one color, and the chassis the other. (I did say *early* days.)

When bodywork enveloped the chassis, people would paint a stripe of the chassis color on the body.

Color coding mattered only in international events, where it was country against country. Most racing is not that way, and eventually color schemes and stripes became style items.

Ken

 

No "official" source...just some knowledge passed on to me from a source I consider valid. Another thing I forgot to add was that they ran the full length of the car in case of a fire, smoke, or crumpled panels. That way, there would at least be some indication as to where the driver was.

 

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Here is my yellow with black stripes with RX8 logo in the stripe.
on this page: https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...2&page=3&pp=15

 

My recommendation if one is going to do stripes on an 8: do a full Union Jack, like Austin Powers' jaguar.

 

i would if it was a british car? he he