Stripes?

[supernova49]

I am working on an 1970 chevy Nova and i was wondering if anyone knew how wide i should paint the stripes on it. I eventually plan on racing it, so it has to look good.

 

[Duke]

On the older cars, they tended to be fairly wide. I'd look on line for pictures of a 1970 Trans Am - the racing versions were white with wide blue skunk stripes. You'll have to guess at the size though.

On my Neon, I found that 8" wide and 4" apart was about right. On the Nova, you may want to up that a little; say to 12" wide and 6" apart.

They definitely want to be closer together than the width of one of the individual stripes. Hope this helps!

 

[supernova49]

Thanks! That does help a bit.

 

[Gil]

Check in archives for Car Craft magazine. They had a section about painting cars.
They did the paint, including stripes, on a '69 Z-28.
I was an OLD article, but it was very comprehensive.

 

[DGB454]

Here is a site to order 70 Yenko duece sprint stripe kit.



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Here is another good one.


Stripes

These are just for stripe kits and stencils though.