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Posted by: wndsnd Nov 9 2012, 06:59 AM

I have to admit, now that I am close to sending the car out for paint, I am getting addicted to the color threads. White, Yellow, Adriatic Blue. I have some paint samples from my indecision and now am thinking, how about hood stripes! How about some of that yellow or silver, stripeing the Adreatic Blue? Anyway, I searched and found many threads on side stripes, but the racing stripes are not as well covered. So, Post your racing stripes here, I also learned they are the fastest cars!

JB

Posted by: Garold Shaffer Nov 9 2012, 07:28 AM

My 70




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Posted by: Vacca Rabite Nov 9 2012, 09:37 AM

I'll add a pic tonight, but just look at my signature for a preview.

Zach

Posted by: Tom_T Nov 9 2012, 11:13 AM

Some `70's period vintage ones.....



smg/Steve G's Strenger 914-6 as original from 71 or 72-ish photo-car duty paint/stripes:








This one was also done in the 914 version, as the 911 stripes shown here:


Number Discs with stripes - not stripes per se....




Not stripes, but these will get you attention!

Posted by: MDG Nov 9 2012, 12:16 PM

Well, if your talking stripes, why look any further than Dave's beauty?

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Posted by: MDG Nov 9 2012, 12:34 PM

Hey - did you black out your wheels? Or are they just dirty?

Posted by: gms Nov 9 2012, 12:38 PM

Here is mine

Posted by: wndsnd Nov 9 2012, 01:03 PM

Is he a Giants fan?

Posted by: Trekkor Nov 9 2012, 01:07 PM

Makes me happy.

KT

Posted by: wndsnd Nov 9 2012, 01:20 PM

Me too.......

Posted by: MDG Nov 9 2012, 02:24 PM

Nope.

Just a drunkard.

Posted by: kg6dxn Nov 9 2012, 04:35 PM

Here's mine...

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Yeah baby!

Posted by: Vacca Rabite Nov 9 2012, 06:53 PM

2007-ish. I think. Before I had her put together the first time.

Posted by: Vacca Rabite Nov 9 2012, 06:56 PM

2009.

Still need to fix that droopy headlight. Hopefully the new bushings from AP Girl will spiff that right up.

Trogdor has been living in the bay with my wife's car. Between my wife opening her door into the car, and my son opeing his door into the car, the passenger side needs a little work.

Zach

Posted by: RobW Nov 9 2012, 07:10 PM

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Posted by: Scott S Nov 9 2012, 08:05 PM

lots o stripes....


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Posted by: Tom_T Nov 10 2012, 05:21 PM

I love the vintage Gulf Oil colors, but prefer the non-shaved nose look.
> Center pic is my fav of theose 3!

Posted by: wndsnd Nov 10 2012, 06:28 PM

Great Looking Car!

Posted by: pnewman Nov 10 2012, 06:52 PM

Now does that really qualify as a "stripe?"




Just kidding! Love the race car Glenn! xoxo

Posted by: pnewman Nov 10 2012, 07:14 PM

Looks Great Garold!

Your car is almost as photogenic as you are!

Posted by: Ed_F Nov 11 2012, 02:07 AM

Not a fan of the paint job, but here is mine. (going back to bahia red soon).


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Posted by: nathansnathan Nov 14 2012, 01:35 PM

Some more stripes
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forza



Some toys, man are these rough-looking


Look at those door gaps!

Posted by: BarberDave Nov 15 2012, 10:14 AM

My favorite 914 body art, is a guy ( I forgot his name ) I,m old you know !! From

Fort Wayne In. he and his son were at Garolds get to geather last summer! I'ts

Blue !

And PLEASE forgive my memory . Dave

Posted by: Randal Nov 15 2012, 10:24 AM

IMHO the best looking racing stripes ever are the classic blue ones on a white Shelby GT 350 Mustang. Would look great on a 914.

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These are the best stripes I could find

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....best yet, but they may interfere with visibility while driving, so you may want to bring them both inside while driving, utilizing the 914's infamous 2+1 seating!

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Posted by: wndsnd Nov 15 2012, 04:10 PM

When Pigs Fly!

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Nice!

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Posted by: Dasnowman Nov 17 2012, 11:55 PM

SICK car need to look byndbad914 up, love some of the things he did!

Posted by: RazorbackFan78 Feb 6 2014, 12:28 PM

Are these custom rolled fenders on the blue car with checkered flag theme? And if so, does anyone still do this kind of work? I've heard of the dying art of 'baseball bat' rolling. Anyways, sorry to ressurect an old thread. I found this thread when looking for racing stripe ideas. Man I love these fenders!!!!

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One of my favorites but I always thought the flames should be on the front edge of the rear trunk lid.

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Posted by: McMark Feb 6 2014, 08:20 PM

It's just tape to test out the look.


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Posted by: 7TPorsh Feb 7 2014, 11:08 AM

make it a M

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Posted by: yeahmag Feb 7 2014, 04:28 PM

Fantastic thread. I'm hoping to stripe my narrow body car (or something) instead of a respray.

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Posted by: lennyhope Feb 8 2014, 03:39 AM

Here in the UK....rear striped 73 1.7
http://s152.photobucket.com/user/AndyCamper/media/20130601_171247-2.jpg.html

Posted by: Jaymann Feb 8 2014, 10:17 AM

You can't have a stripes thread without Virginia.She is sexy silver,with charcoal stripes.Jaymann from PA

Posted by: Jaymann Feb 8 2014, 10:18 AM

Another shot


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Posted by: Jaymann Feb 8 2014, 10:20 AM

one more


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Posted by: Downunderman Feb 8 2014, 12:13 PM

Added some blue vinyl for the Rennsport meeting last year.


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Posted by: wndsnd Feb 22 2014, 02:00 PM

So I am being a little dangerous here, and I like the nostalgic look of the 65 Shelby GT 350. Doing a little research here I found out that those are a tapered stripe. I am sure that has something to do with why they are so striking, even though they are plain to to eye.

However, The Shelby is a bigger car. So I thought to make it look right I would have to scale them down for a 914.

The Stripes on the Shelby start at 9.25" and run to 10.5" at the Windshield. They run over the roof but I will disregard that. They pick up at the front edge of the rear deck @ 10.375" and end at the rear deck edge at 10.00 even. They have 2" of seperation.

The Shelby is 181.5 " Long vs the 914 @ 159.4 approx 13.8% longer. The Shelby is 68.1" Wide vs the 914 @ 65. so the Shelby is only 4.7" wider.


So this is what I am thinking, taking the Shelby Dimmensions and scaling
From this
9.25
10.5
10.375
2"

to
8.878 or converting to MM 223.2
9.975 253.35
9.985 254.42
9.5 241.3
1.90 .48

So I figured it was probably better to scale for the witdth than the overall length.
But I am unsure about this.

Before I have these cut, does any one want to check my math, sanity, thought process, etc.

Centered on the car these should frame the Porsche Logo, actually at 48mm the emblem wont fit but I don't intend to put one on anyway, and make it inside of the headlight buckets.

Like this:



And This





My question is what do you think of the taper, has anyone done that? Will the look scale cleanly and did I scale it correctly?

Thanks
John

Posted by: wndsnd Feb 22 2014, 05:39 PM

Here is the original GT350 Taper dimmensions:

Posted by: Mike Bellis Feb 22 2014, 05:43 PM

Here's what my car looked like in the 1980's...