Who invented Stripes (why my Shelby's will always wear them)

icormba said:

I think he's talking about 1965, which the dealers put the stripes on back then. From what I read.

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galaxy said:

White car?? Gotta have blue stripes. Looks, nostalgia, what ever label you want to put on it. Ironically, white is our only color I don’t like without stripes. Anything else after that is personal preference. Some I can take or leave. Grabber blue...no stripes. Black with flat black stripes?? HELL YEA; the most sinister car on the road today.

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You mean like these?
This was mine until I moved a few months back, so either this or the 350 had to go & my wife would'nt ride in the 427 after the 1st time.
She asked " where's the roll bar on my side" ? My less than well though out reply was " why, you're the roll bar on you're side" ......ooops.

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Lurker_350 said:

Is that wimbledon white? Looks like a cross between the 350 choices of oxford white and avalanche. Looks great, sorry to hear you got rid of it, but I would have chosen the 350 too.

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Muligan said:

In '65, the street cars were produced with only the rocker stripes as standard - the "over the top" stripes were either painted on by Shelby or (more often) the dealer. The exception to that was that all of the '65 R-model race cars came white with the blue rocker and racing stripes (I think the only exception(s) were the Essex Wire and Comstock Racing cars, but there's not much info on those two cars). On top of that, the buyers of the R-models were supposed to agree to leave their cars in that color scheme for at least one year - Shelby was the consummate marketer and knew that brand identity was a good thing.

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