And then you go to pick it up, and they put on black stripes.........

I'm so beyond angry. I guess the saving grace is that even if they were the right color, the sides are done totally wrong, so they would have had to have been redone anyway.

So I'll hear from them tomorrow when they can come take my car away from me again for a day or two and restripe it in White.

But in case you wondered what it would look like to toss Shelby/LeMans stripes on a Grabber Vert - here ya go.

 

It actually looks good in black, but if it's not what you want then it has to go.

I see what you mean about the side stripes. They are too thin and not factory spec width.

 

Well the rite stripes on the side would be two equal width stripes, not this thin thick thin deal that looks home on a base model from 2005

 

The base model stripe was not even that thin! But I do know which stripes you are talking about...

 

That "thin thick thin deal" is from the original Shelby GT 350, and they still use them today.

 

Yeah, I know and I'd be fine with that if the middle was thicker and placed in the same locations as your examples

 

Remove the side stripes but please KEEP the rally stripes. That car looks absolutely awesome with the black stripes. Add black wheels and now we are talking about your car being in a different level.

 

no no no.

Black stripes on blue = gross.

White stripes on blue = winning

black wheels on anything at all = overdone. so overdone, it's past bing ricey, past being mainstreem, and is just plain aweful looking. I am not Mad Max, nor do I want to be.

 

Not just the Shelby. The original GT's had them too:



I personally don't mind the side stripes, In fact I kind of like them. But I would certainly be royally pissed if I showed up to see the complete wrong color stripes covering my car.

 

well I do want the side stripes.. Just done properly and about 1/2 to 3/4" lower than they currently are. I'm perfectly fine with the thin thick thin or even just the dual stripe like the current shelby.

 

Both colors look good to me. Good luck with the re-stripe!

 

The debate isn't whether thin/thick/thin stripes were ever used. The problem is the thick middle stripe is not thick enough to look proper. All the factory rocker stripes on the 05-up Mustangs have a certain thickness. Also, this is not the stripe style at all that the OP wanted on the sides.

 

i've spent the last two hours comparing black striped cars to white striped cars. My conclusion? still haven't come to one. Maybe black stripes are fine. Biggest reason I was against them is that they get so lost on that back end of the car.

 

I'm sorry, but the black stripes look great and one of my first thoughts was how good it would look with black wheels.

Different strokes I suppose.

 

Ricey? What about those add on fakes scoops you have on your car, isn't that considered ricey too?

 

For the record, when the rocker stripes on factory Shelby's and Pony Package Mustangs are done properly they are spaced away from the door sculpture line, not up to it. On Boss 302 Mustangs the stripe is much closer to the door sculpture line which helps line up the stripe to cover the area around the rear side marker lamps.

 

Well my preference is that they not be interrupted by the gloss panel now standard on the 2013 deck lid.

 

Just change the side stripes to the ones you like and call it a day.

 

 

Better make the decklid panel black.