Pinstriping a 914 Old School, & Lyle Fisk Hagerty Interview Options

[Tom_T]

Before all of the paint is off my 914, I've been meaning to do a topic with some pix of how IMHO the best looking tasteful/subtle accent pinstriping should be done - old school style, with paint & not tape.

This video from Hagerty interviewing Lyle Fisk - one of the SoCal old school greats - prompted me to do it here. Here's a link to the video -

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/Art...g%20your%20carb

While Lyle didn't do my 914 back in 1980 & 1976, the guy in Santa Ana who did is no longer around AFAIK, but he had the same capabilities, & used to pinstripe for George Barris & other Rod Builders, & in the 1960's-70's he had done my Uncle's 32 Ford Rumble Seat Roadster Rod, 58 Vette, Rail, etc. - so a known quantity.

Based on my expert pinstriper's advice & my eye & personal preferences - I like the 2 parallel stripes along the fenders/doors beltline to accent the length & visually lower the 914 - tapered & meeting at the ends just behind the Front TS & before the Taillights - as shown in the pix below.

In my 1980-83 Rolling Resto, I chose the 2-tones of blue (Medium over Light Blue - non-metallic in this case), to add some color to the otherwise blah "Pavement Cammy" Anthracite Grey Metallic from the 930 of 1976 MY (a paint to sample color which a buddy had on his 930), since I was trying to negate the cop-catching metallic orange effect of the 1976 repaint/rustoration of my 914 to the 75 MY 914 Copper Metallic L99K (it had brown metallic over gold metallic pinstripes similar in layout to the blue ones below), since I was getting pulled over too much for nothing other than being a bright colored Porsche!

Yes - I've already done 2x restos/repaints on my 914 over the decade & 132000+ miles that I drove it as my DD - for those scorekeepers in the crowd!

The one in 1976 was basically just a rust spots treatment & repaint from the Gold when I bought my early MY 1973 914-2.0 "914S" from the OO in Dec. 1975, then in 1980-83 a more complete mechanical & running gear rebuild, body work (got the front deck lid submarined by a work truck stopping in the middle of the street) & more rust work Rolling Resto/Refurb ($7500+ then - $25000+ today's dollars), which is the Anthracite below - after getting hit in a parking structure while I was in Grad School classes (stored since then while raising a family).

While I knew since buying it in 75 that it was originally "white" L80E Light Ivory & repainted by the new dealer to Gold Metallic (L97G/L97H) when I bought it - more recently I found another repaint between the L80E & the Gold, that the dealer had also painted it Sahara Beige 98 code (like Steve G's in the O&H Forum's "The few, the rare...." nailed topic on original specimens). It was somewhat common back then for Porsche+Audi dealers to do color changes either for customer requests, or to help sell a slow moving car. i don't know which it was, but mine was a 8/31/72 build date (per Chassis No. decoding), which was 1st sold 11/9/72 - so it was around at least a couple of months - not long IMHO, but enough for the OO or prior buyer(s) to request a different color. The floors were never done over from L80E, so I always had that & Karmann Plate for reference on the factory color.

So here are some pix of the pinstriping FYI - & it's obviously still bears the damage from that May 1985 hit which crunched both F & R, but will be restored & repaired to proper fitment again sometime soon ....


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.... (Note: the discoloration of the paint & plastic film bits are remnants of the plastic painter's drop cloth sheet which I put under the flannel cover to "protect" the paint - NOT a good idea FYI!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Of course, everyone has their own tastes on how they want to pinstripe &/or otherwise embellish their 914s & other cars, but there is nothing like old scholl hand painted pinstriping, when done by a Master! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

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Tom
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