[Healeys] Stripes/Racing stripes??????????

pennell at cox.net pennell at cox.net
Tue Mar 2 14:23:07 MST 2010


Carlos,

I painted stripes on my BN7 for reason #10!

Keith

---- Carlos Cruz <healey3000bn7 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Alright Ray, what are you drinking and why haven't you passed it around to the rest of us?  
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> Just curious, what triggered the interesting question 40+ years later? 
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> To steal one from David Letterman... 
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> The top ten purposes for racing stripes:
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> 10:Racing stripes make the car go faster
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> 9:Racing stripes give the driver an aggressive attitude
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> 8:Racing stripes give bugs "lane choice" right before a bug strike
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> 7:Because flames on a British car just look silly
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> 6:Racing stripes make the car look like it's going fast when parked
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> 5:Racing stripes represent how many times you've had to re-do the car
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> 4:Racing stripes allow the driver to be a good samaritan by drawing the police's attention away from the faster moving car in the next lane
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> 3:Who wants a one-color car
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> 2:Racing stripes prove the painter can still paint a straight line even after a case of beer
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> 1:The Metric System:  It takes nearly a gallon to paint a car properly and paint is sold by the liter in England.  Too many cars were 90% complete and painters had difficulty matching the original color.
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> >Just having fun on a Tuesday afternoon.
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> Cheers
> To: AUSTIN HEALEY CLUB <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tue, March 2, 2010 1:30:24 PM
> Subject: [Healeys] Stripes/Racing stripes??????????
> 
> hello all
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> 
> Way back when (mid 60s) , i was in a sportscar club in San Antonio, Texas
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> called Checkpointer's Ltd..........
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> There was a guy in the club (an Englishman who was in our
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> Air Force), who had a great Healey........... (I had an old beat
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> up and modified '56 Healey).................
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> As I remember it - he told me that stripes down the hood of a car
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> actually mean something - stripes could be thick or thin, and would
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> refer to both the car and the driver..........B  depending on the thickness
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> of the stripes, and their layout, it would mean something like "car ready",
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> or "driver ready" or "car and driver ready"..............
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> Anyone know what the heck I am talking about??????
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> tks, ray
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