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Old 12-14-2020, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by HUBBELL RACING View Post
...thicker white stripes...
Those stripes (and the race number, and the Viking Blue) are all correct for the Daytona that Gurney and Bondurant took to 4th OA at Le Mans 1964, just FYI...personally I love them because it seems to me that most Daytona replicas either go with a "non factory" paint scheme or do some version of the 1965 Guardsman Blue/wide white stripe livery. Cars replicating the 1964 livery don't seem as common. If you look at pics of the '64 Gurney car, it appears that whoever painted your car even went to some pains to duplicate the font of the race number, which is a detail a lot of replicas skip.

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