To stripe or not to stripe?

[picnictables]

Good evening everyone,
I just dropped my '65 Vert off at the paint shop today. It's going to be a long month without her in the garage but it's going to be great coming back all shiny and wimbledon white! My question for anyone with an opinion, I've seen some pics of with and without black stripes along the door bottoms. Now the car isn't a show car (my 5 and 3 yr old will make sure of that) so I'm not worried about it being original. Oh, and it's raven black today. Considering how bad the 25 year old thrashed paint is, it certainly needs a new coat. I've always had a thing for white 'stangs plus my recently passed (AWESOME) mom-in-law liked white alot too. So that's my excuses for the color change.

I'm putting up a pic from this past summer so you can see the look of my after market rims following a disc brake conversion, and then 2 pics I found online with stripes and without to get an idea. My interior is black and will stay like that (maybe?)

Do I go with the stripes or not?

[bartl]

Whatever floats your boat, but my feeling has always been that if you have rocker panel moldings then no stripes. I also think no stripes if you have stock or styled steel wheels. Of course you know the old saying....."Opinions are like _________. Everybody has one and no one wants to see the other's."

[datac]

IMHO rocker moldings==no rocker stripes on '65-'66 cars.

Frankly, I like my '65 with no rocker moldings or stripes- makes for a very clean look. Wimbledon's a great color on these cars, but I'm probably biased.

[Black65]

I'll vote for no moldings, yes to stripes.

[GT350R Klone]

Without carrying out the Shelby theme through out the entire car, I don't like a car with stripes.

[tx65coupe]

I vote no stripe, and keep the rocker molding. Either that or neither.

[picnictables]

Hey thanks for the input all. I was thinking the stripe would add a little "balls" to the look but didn't think about the rocker molding and how it would look together. Thinking more about it and looking at more examples, it makes sense. And GT350R Klone, I wasn't doing any text in the stripe to pass off as a shelby, just a straight black stripe (well 3 bar stripe sorta like a shelby I guess). You'd never make the mistake of a shelby if you got a peek under the hood.

Thanks again,
Stripeless in PA

[grasshopper]

I like the clean no stripe look.

[22GT]

Stripe or rocker, not both. Looks too "busy". Since you don't have a GT, and are not creating a clone, go with the mouldings.

[mjb1032]

I also vote for the clean look...

After the paint has cured for a while, you could try putting on some temporary stripes (paper and tape), or add some with photoshop to see how it looks.

[wheelsup351]

No molding. No stripes.

[merfsiu]

My vote goes to vinyl stripes. No rocker moldings. Thats the way I am gonna go anyway.

[Jays66gt]

Ditto on the vinyl stripes. No to the rocker moldings. I like the GT look.

[1966notch]

I vote rocker molding. Sometimes when I look at the strips, the factory location looks too high, may 1-2" inches too high and can look a bit goofy on some cars. Definately not both.

[aslan]

I was in the same quandary as you when the body shop finished painting my car. I decided that stripes are easier to put than to take off (duh) so I decided no stripes, live with it for a couple of years then make my decision. Still with no stripes and very happy.
Stan