Thread: Fender stripes history ??
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Old 03-02-2007, 07:51 PM
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They were "team" stripes. "Back in the day" there might have been several teams running the same marque of car in a race...sometimes painted the same colors...thus a way to differentiate the cars. I know in perusing old race photos there are photos of different cars with different fender stripe colors though of the same marque.
Boxhead was right they were mostly used in endurance races.



I may be wrong but I think the term "rookie stripe" came in being in USSRC(USA) racing when rookie drivers were required to have a distinguishing mark on their car to designate their status
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