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Originally posted by blykins
I've posted several times here trying to get an answer, but to no avail...I've never seen a picture of an original car with original paint (aside from a Daytona Coupe) with stripes. I can't figure out why everyone does it. I'm sure it's something I'm missing...because everyone knows I'm a few fries short of a Happy Meal...but no one has ever been able to answer me.
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Mid-way thru the 1964 racing season, SAI started using the two wide stripes that we know today as LeMans stripes. The factory 289s that ran SCCA were striped this way... as well as the King Cobras. The FIA racers stayed monochrome, with most having the fender-to-fender team stripe.
The fliptop raced at Nassau with LeMans stripes and CSX3002, the first 427, was born with stripes. That "look" is what is emulated by the replicas.
Since there was no factory 427 car raced, the independent Comp cars chose their own monochrome paint schemes.