Muscle car stripes that are a little weird.

[SteveSS]

Have you seen some stripes on muscle cars that don't seem to have much in common with the bodywork? Like the Mustang Boss 302. I think that car's designer, Larry Shinoda is immensely talented, he did the '63 Corvette while at GM. I even became friends with him before he died. It's just that stripe is so left field it doesn't relate to the car.

Another is the Buick GS. There is some cool bodywork going on but they chose to just run a straight line down the car. Do you know of any?

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

The nose stripe of the Camaro just doesn’t make sense to me

 

[Black_Sheep]

Not a fan of this one, 1968 442...

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

What was with gm and their stripe placement, was Stevie wonder working there?

 

[Detective D]

This is a thing in all segments of cars, for most years.
Case in point, I am fixing a 78 Monaco Police car. (detectives car)
Coke bottle body made in what, 71?
Chrysler decides the best trim for it is an arrow straight line down the side of the car. Example:

it does not fit, it hides the actual lines, it looks bad. I want to keep my car mostly in tact, but I will NOT put that trim back on. The rear fender well is flared both ways. you can;t even tell with the trim on, your eye goes to that line instead. Sometimes I wonder if an accountant or upper managment just overruled or put their foot down on these types of decisions.

 

[RemCharger]

This is a thing in all segments of cars, for most years.
Case in point, I am fixing a 78 Monaco Police car. (detectives car)
Coke bottle body made in what, 71?
Chrysler decides the best trim for it is an arrow straight line down the side of the car. Example:
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it does not fit, it hides the actual lines, it looks bad. I want to keep my car mostly in tact, but I will NOT put that trim back on. The rear fender well is flared both ways. you can;t even tell with the trim on, your eye goes to that line instead. Sometimes I wonder if an accountant or upper managment just overruled or put their foot down on these types of decisions.

It's for door ding protection.

 

[WileERobby]

On the contrary, I like stripes in many shapes and sizes

 

[XS22J8R]

I’m not a big fan of ‘71 cuda billboards. I’m probably in the minority there, most cuda fans love them.
The cuda quarters are big and need some breaking up, but the ‘70 hockey stick stripes did the job well but more subtle.
On that subject though, why did they only offer hockey stick stripes in black? Challenger R/T stripes were offered in many colors, it makes no sense Plymouth only had black hockey stick stripes in 70.

 

[Runcharger]

I don't get the primered quarter thing either, why wreck a nice clean car with primered quarters.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Remember...they had to make these things easy for assembly line workers to put on, the same way, over and over.

Things like the GS - where else would you put the stripes? The sunset-crescent stripes were already taken by the GTO/Judge, so they couldn't do that... Same with the Boss - what other option is there?

 

[Purepony]

The nose stripe of the Camaro just doesn’t make sense to me

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Lol it’s a reverse bumble bee stripe

 

[eldubb440]

 

[Photon440]

 

[WileERobby]

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I could never figure this one out. Like the 75 road runner trunk lid tunnel thing.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

I could never figure this one out. Like the 75 road runner trunk lid tunnel thing.

The 75 roadrunner is easy to explain

It was the 70s, why not