The car looks great, Roger.
As far as the fender stripes....
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Originally Posted by rossgt
They have been called many things: Rally stripes, FIA stripes, Pit Stripes and Rookie stripes. As I recall reading somewhere, the rookie striping would be in the traditional "yellow" color. Other colors were used also but the primary reason was vehicle identification. Team cars of the same color blasting by the pit areas at over 100 mph had different colors to distinguish the car to the teams. So whatever they are officially called it was identification.
I just wanted to distinguish my car from all the rest.
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I always like to clear the history up.... they were originally used in 1964 by the SAI Team for what was stated...a simple way to tell the cars apart at speed, when multiple team entries painted the same color were on the grid together.
They also helped the officials who did the timing.
They are definitely not called rookie stripes....the dual "rookie stripe" is always positioned on the rear of the car....you would want to know that the car you are about to pass will react properly...if it was a rookie or an old vet, you would know by the stripes.
The Cobra fender stripes were last minute additions to the Factory cars; in fact, they were actually conceived and painted on the cars by Pete Brock, who did it with rattle-can paint.