Miata Mailing List: September 1996, Message #0047
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   From: Bill Gusky 

Subject: Re: Help?  Please suggest... (a trifle long)

   Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 13:57:54 -0500



Todd Barker bubbled (as anyone would!):



>I'm proud to announce that just over a week ago, I became the

>proud owner of a White 1990 slightly modified "A" package with

>only 37,000 miles and all the records to prove it!!!! (yeah,

>I'm in the club!!) She's been topless ever since the day I

>bought Her!!!!! I Love It!!!!!



Welcome, Todd.  Sounds like a great car.



>What I need now is a little advise....Next week, I'm having racing 

>stripes painted on the Her (no name yet) for my birthday and I'm 

>looking for some suggestions on colors to use...Currently the car is 

>white with black cloth interior. I have not been able to decide if she 

>will look better with a black stripe or a blue stripe. (I'm actually 

>having the wide double stripes down the center, but i'll call it stripe (one) to make it easier). Arround September 15th, She will hav 

>a black roll bar added for her safety too  :)



Look on page 56 of the just-arrived Miata Club magazine.  You'll see

a white with double racing stripes.  One is blue, one red.  Although

I am partial to red cars (red being God's color and all), I was

REALLY taken with this color scheme!  I immediately began trying to

figure how I might apply something of the same concept to my red.



>I figure there are a great deal of "drivers" on this list who might 

>have seen what works and doesn't work....Please Help???  The only 

>advise I have received up to now has been from Non-Miata driver's (and 

>half of them can't understand why i want to stripe the her in the 

>first place).



No denying it... stripes attract attention.  From small boys, married

men pushing strollers, nubile young ladies, highway patrol troopers.



>does anyone know what the "classic" racing colors would be, I've tried 

>looking in the bookstore and library, but I have not had any luck (all 

>the pictures were in black and white....not much help there.....)



American racing color on the international circuit used to be white;

I guess it still is.  (Brit - BRG; Fr - blue; Germ - silver; Ital - red)

What could be more classic than white with red and blue stripes?



Wish you the best with your new love.



-- 

Bill Gusky and Petunia, the Wonder-Miata

Red '91, license "MOMENTS"

"Too soon oldt, und too late schmart!"

















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