[Doug I]

I saw a photo of CS @ his 80th with a sea of original Cobras - very few had stripes.

Stripes look great. In the BDR thread here there are some photos of a silver with no stripes. It has numbers and a few cling stickers and it looks very sharp. These cars look good with and without stripes. On the same thread there is a photo of a blue with stripes and the fender stripe - and it also looks really good.

The stripes should be tapered with the narrow end at the ends of the car.

My personal choice for stripes (if I went with them) would be a darker shade of the body colour with a pinstripe outside the mains. But that's just me :-)

Then you could also go with stripes with a meatball cutting through the stripes - also looks good.

My take on stripes is that they give the car a 'race' look whereas no stripes give it a 'gentlemans' look. Of course the sound always means 'vette spanker' :-)

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