Stripes Yes or No

Brigita · Post by **Brigita** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:45 pm

gorrie wrote: TBH, I quite like stripes.... they can always come off again if you don't like them.

my thoughts exactly!!!!

Briggy

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:55 pm

its getting a bit common now tbh... unless you go for a variation on a theme and get a single stripe or something?

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:00 pm

GregR wrote:its getting a bit common now tbh... unless you go for a variation on a theme and get a single stripe or something?

yea, porsche 917 styleeeee!!!

while you're doing the stripe, you could try and fit the 1100bhp engine too

Post by **Shug** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:30 pm

If you mean the 917-30, it had 1500bhp and looked like this:

917s of that vintage had nearer 550bhp (no turbos). Which is still adequate, strangely.....

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:44 pm

a fair point

never thought the canam cars looked all that good though... still, looks arent everything if you can do 0-200mph in 11 seconds

Post by **Shug** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:47 pm

Totally agree - Can-Am went a bit coal scuttle for my tastes...

You can't argue with Mark Donohue's comment about the grunt though: (paraphrased as I can't remember it)

"A car has enough power when it can lay black lines from the exit of any corner into the next..."

as f**k

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:25 pm

yea, i'd recon that was fast enough too

I remember emmerson fittipaldi recanting a story where he took his mother out round interlagos in a 917-30. she feinted down the main straight due to the acceleration

now, if only we could have a porsche 956 in orange stripey stylee gulf colours.........

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:19 pm

Stripes are awesome but I would say that

renmure · Post by **renmure** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:22 pm

ExigeKen wrote:Stripes are awesome but I would say that

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:47 pm

ExigeKen wrote:Stripes are awful but I would say that

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:52 pm

I think there is enough detail to be honest without adding any....

However, they by no means look crap!
IMHO

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:52 pm

It looks ridiculous, and that rear wing sitting on top of a couple of lollipop sticks defies description.

For gawds sake, they designed a classic, simple S1 that Colin Chapman would have been proud of, and ever since they have tried their hardest to f**k it up.

S1 Exige excepted, which was also a classic.

tut

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:57 pm

Mr Momo wrote:
ExigeKen wrote:Stripes are awful but I would say that

Easy for you to say when you are in love with Kiki

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:45 pm

stripes - hell yeah

r055 · Post by **r055** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:54 pm

i do like them... obviously!

however, i was starting to not like them before my engine popped as I got a flash and a wave from someone driving a red 'shopping trolley' with white stripes!