Happy New Year everyone!
So...my wife and I attended a New Year's Eve party last night at our neighbors place, and we had a great time. There were quite a few people there, some from the neighborhood and some we hadn't met before. My neighbor (the host) has an impressive car collection including a '57 Porsche Speedster. He also invited several of his car friends that also are auto enthusiasts, mostly European cars. The subject of my '65 FS restoration came up and I shared current iPhone pictures of my car with the group. One of the guests was very much into European racing history and asked me if I knew what the significance of the roof stripe was on my FS. I didn't quite understand why he asked the question and replied "it was a styling element the factory offered and could be ordered in different colors depending on body color". He said, I understand that, but do you know the significance of the stripe? I said no, it's just for style as far as I know. He proceeded to tell me the stripe came about from European road racing where each country had specific stripe and body colors to identify what country the car represented, and that the US cars had a blue stripe on a white body, or vice versa. I'm sure some of you knew this, but I had no idea. I went to Wikipedia and found out more:
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So...my wife and I attended a New Year's Eve party last night at our neighbors place, and we had a great time. There were quite a few people there, some from the neighborhood and some we hadn't met before. My neighbor (the host) has an impressive car collection including a '57 Porsche Speedster. He also invited several of his car friends that also are auto enthusiasts, mostly European cars. The subject of my '65 FS restoration came up and I shared current iPhone pictures of my car with the group. One of the guests was very much into European racing history and asked me if I knew what the significance of the roof stripe was on my FS. I didn't quite understand why he asked the question and replied "it was a styling element the factory offered and could be ordered in different colors depending on body color". He said, I understand that, but do you know the significance of the stripe? I said no, it's just for style as far as I know. He proceeded to tell me the stripe came about from European road racing where each country had specific stripe and body colors to identify what country the car represented, and that the US cars had a blue stripe on a white body, or vice versa. I'm sure some of you knew this, but I had no idea. I went to Wikipedia and found out more:
