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Originally Posted by 767Jockey
Do they also taper at the rear? ERA shows a rear taper as well. They start at 7 1/2" at the rear of the cockpit, and taper down to 6 1/4" at the rear of the car.
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Whether the stripes on a car taper or not has nothing to do with how original SC's were done. There is no ‘norm’ or factory specification for stripes on a Cobra, if in fact a customer ordered stripes.
The reason stripes taper from more narrow at the front and back to a wider stripe when they reach the cockpit is to 'correct' an optical illusion. When you view a car with stripes from the front or rear it is like looking down a set of railroad tracks. The tracks are parallel but appear to narrow in the distance. By making each stripe a little wider at the cockpit you eliminate the illusion of the 'tracks' coming together.
Lay them out to your taste, just remember that this illusion can exist.