Proper 69/70 Shelby Side Stripe Placement.

[Special Ed]

Pete what happens when u have a special order paint car who decided stripe color as in specialed shelby? Good thing my purple car still is original so i can document the stripe color.

[Coralsnake]

Shelby decided the color.

I have seen a few references to some cars that received the wrong color side stripes at the factory in those meeting minutes you have.

Try to convince Mr Gaines of that on the show field!

[Coralsnake]

Info from dealer sales meeting, see item 9 and 13

[Coralsnake]

Always happy to help out the concours judges 😂

[Bob Gaines]

Always happy to help out the concours judges 😂

You are selfless .

[shlb69]

Orig paint car

[427hunter]

Info from dealer sales meeting, see item 9 and 13

Thank you for posting this! QC was a real problem apparently !

[Coralsnake]

There has been a lot of misinformation that quality was not good or not a priority. Both are false.

The quality standards were different from the extreme tolerances we expect today, however there were a lot of people that cared about the work and the product.

It kind of tweaks me when people degrade them.

[bobboss351]

Bob,
Great timing on this post, we are just getting ready to stripe the 70 car in the next week, so great information,,, thank you,, Bob

[shelbymann1970]

Mine are straight but i like the white on the red car.  This is a little sideways to the original post but how do you know what color stripe was on the car.  Mine is candy apple red with a gold stripe.

There is an inexpensive stripe removal tool to remove stripes off of a car without hurting the paint. Because of this I went White on my red car only because I had a white top and black hood stripes. looked too busy with gold. It isn't my first red Shelby I put white stripes onto. I did it on #3052 drag pack 4 speed FB. When people would ask if the car came from the factory with white stripes I said absolutely then mentioned it was originally a grabber blue car.  . 3 things I took liberties on my car since I will never sell it: Over restored the underside because to go factory would mean bare metal in some areas. Cleared in hood stripes and the white tape stripes. Since I striped the car myself I figured I could always go back to gold if I decided. Ditto for painting black stripes on the hood over the cleared in ones. Underside is another story.first pic is my underside after I painted it in my garage. Second is original paint of my underside. 3rd is my old GT500 with my GT350 and a R-code Mach1 I had at the time.  Gary

[Special Ed]

Make sure u install stripe kit AFTER lining up all metal and fiberglass as the stripes should be the very last thing u do on a restoration!!

[2112]

 @shlb69  that is an incredibly beautiful car. Love the way the stripe has a creamy patina due to it's age.

[Bob Gaines]

@shlb69  that is an incredibly beautiful car. Love the way the stripe has a creamy patina due to it's age.

More original stripe then creamy patina. The contrast is very noticeable in that picture.The stripes don't typically patina much . Original stripes were more off white then the white white like the reproductions have always been. A side by side comparison shows it as very noticeable. Separately less so. It was a"undesirable effect" the 3M rep said . The white white became the standard more then 30 plus years ago.I never found (out of many) a Ford service stripe that was not the off white. There was maybe still is a fastback set on ebay recently.The problem is that the made into the stripe adhesive may have dried up after all of these years. 3M will make up some stripe special but I heard you have to order a huge amount. I think I remember someone who checked into it saying it was enough to do more then a thousand cars. Too much to justify the investment let alone the time to recoup.

[shelbymann1970]

Make sure u install stripe kit AFTER lining up all metal and fiberglass as the stripes should be the very last thing u do on a restoration!!

Well I agree. Brought the car home bare. Then after drivetrain in and doors weighted again the stripes went on.

[Special Ed]

Utah   john gogo  son called wanting to make 69 shelby stripe the correct way and color so he needs help  so need nos autolite or old nos stripe  to borrow to get concours correctly made. All the past repo stripes havent been made correctly either the color or the cuts or the fastback vs vert patterns or the gt350/500 letters.