Yipes, Stripes!
So the other thread on butt stripes (ahem, NOT skid marks) has brought up something I've wondered about for years.
I have a '72 Dart which never had a factory butt stripe. My car is white with an olive green top and interior and it's hard to even find pictures in this color combo.
It looks like the vinyl stripes only came in black, white, blue and red. Would I be better off to try and find a custom green stripe to match, a black stripe to complement, or just leave it off because they never had a stripe in '72?
If the car was any other color but white, I'd run a white stripe and be done.
It looks like the vinyl stripes don't have cutouts for the marker lights and '72 has the red plastic marker with no bezel, unlike the '70-'71 model that has a chrome bezel around the marker which 'borders' it from the stripe so the color contrast isn't jarring.
It also bugs me that the '72 marker didn't center in the stripe from the earlier years.
All opinions welcome.
So the other thread on butt stripes (ahem, NOT skid marks) has brought up something I've wondered about for years.
I have a '72 Dart which never had a factory butt stripe. My car is white with an olive green top and interior and it's hard to even find pictures in this color combo.
It looks like the vinyl stripes only came in black, white, blue and red. Would I be better off to try and find a custom green stripe to match, a black stripe to complement, or just leave it off because they never had a stripe in '72?
If the car was any other color but white, I'd run a white stripe and be done.
It looks like the vinyl stripes don't have cutouts for the marker lights and '72 has the red plastic marker with no bezel, unlike the '70-'71 model that has a chrome bezel around the marker which 'borders' it from the stripe so the color contrast isn't jarring.
It also bugs me that the '72 marker didn't center in the stripe from the earlier years.
All opinions welcome.