1973 LeMans GT & GTO Stripes
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Back in 1988, about 7 years after I bought my Yellow 1973 GTO (back when it was Florentine Red), I found a coupla 1973 cars with FACTORY INSTALLED stripes. I thought it would be a good idea to take some pics for future stripe placement or reproduction.
Well I lost these pictures sometime in 1989 and thought they were gone for good. Guess what? Last night (Friday May 26, 2000), while digging through my record collection looking for my " ACCEPT, Metal Heart" album to listen to, I found this pack of pictures between the ACCEPT and "AC/DC, Dirty Deeds". Pulled it out, had a look and almost S**t my pants!!! There they were. Hiding away for 11 years.
To begin with I have two pics of a white 1973 LeMans GT. Gives you a good idea of where the stripes go.
Stripe Placement and Measurements
The Following pics were taken in 1988 at "Calgary Pick-Your-Part" in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The pics start at the front of the stripe at the leading edge of the hood. The width measurements were then taken every cm from the "pointy" part at the front of the stripe. Width measurements are taken from the outer edge of each side of the WHOLE stripe.
Luckily, I had the foresight back in 1988 to write down the widths on the back of each respective photo.
Anyway, here they are.
Oh, and bye the way, if ANYONE is interested in getting together and figuring out some way that we can reproduce these, or get someone else to reproduce them,
contact me with ALL and ANY ideas.
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