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Re: [Sunbeam Talbot Email List] stripes/racing stripeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_stripe provide some background.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ric Scofidio 
  To: staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 9:39 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sunbeam Talbot Email List] stripes/racing stripes


  Hi all,

  Briggs Cunningham was the first to use racing stripes on his cars in 1951. The benefits were 

  1.) he said it was easier to spot his cars on the track  
  2.) if a driver spun it was easier to align the car with the track

  I've also heard that one of the primary reasons stripes were adopted by others was that it was easier to tell how much a car was under or oversteering as it went through a curve - this would help in setting up a car for a particular track. I've never heard anything regarding width.

  -Ricardo




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  From: <DIn1022099 at aol.com>
  Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:45:06 -0500
  To: <raymead at comcast.net>, "staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info" <staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info>
  Subject: Re: [Sunbeam Talbot Email List] stripes/racing stripes

  Hello Ray,

   I was in the U.S. Air Force in the mid 60's too. Saw lots of stripes on many cars but didn't know the width meant something. What a concept.
   
  Don
   
  In a message dated 3/2/2010 12:18:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, raymead at comcast.net writes:



     

    hello all
     

     
     

    Way back when (mid 60s) , i was in a sportscar club in San Antonio,  Texas
     

    called Checkpointer's Ltd..........
     


     
     

    There was a guy in the club (an Englishman who was in our
     

    Air Force), who had a great Healey........... (I had an old beat
     

    up and modified '56 Healey).................
     

     
     

    As I remember it - he told me that stripes down the hood of a car
     

    actually mean something - stripes could be thick or thin, and would
     

    refer to both the car and the driver..........  depending on the  thickness
     

    of the stripes, and their layout, it would mean something like "car  ready",
     

    or "driver ready" or "car and driver ready"..............
     

     
     

    Anyone know what the heck I am talking about??????
     

     
     

    tks,  ray


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