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May 8, 2009 | 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by eehjay

A few different concepts for those stripes ranging from pit crews being able to identify their cars (in a race where all cars looked identical?) or different colors meaning different experience levels and rankings among racers back in the 60s. Alot of the guys here at work are saying it is the latter.

Did a little research and this is correct. In 1963 at Nassau speed week the corvette team used a stripe to designate each car in a three car field; one red, one black, and one white. However they placed the stripe on the nose not the fender and it was only one. The 1996 grand sport was a tribute to those cars that ran in '63, 64 and 65.

I have also seen a '69 camaro trans am race car with a similar stripe pattern. I'm sure it was not original on the Grand Sport, but that is where I drew my inspiration from.

Thanks for all the comments!