Just put these on the car today not sure if i am sold on them yet.

 

No

 

I like them. Your car looks good either way tho.

Mark.

 

Yes I like them.

 

Heck yes

 

They look pretty awesome, not gonna lie..

 

I like them. If the hockey stripe was more parallel to the door lines, they'd look great.

 

I agree with Buggy Disaster. Would also like to see them forward.

 

Nope.

 

im down

 

I like them! Always been a fan of them on third gens. However, they look crooked. It seems they're sloping downward as they progress down the door.

 

I prefer it with no stripes. Looks good with the stripes too but I would want the stripe to not angle downward.

 

I'm cool w/it, the stripes are unique on a 3rd gen

 

I don't think they work with your car. They aren't aligned with the body lines of the car as they progress down the side, unlike on the first gens where they did. IMO I'd take them off.

 

I don't like them. I don't like how they appear to go down over the door instead of straight across.

 

NO!!!

 

I like them but they need to be parellell with the lines of the car.

 

Thanks for the input on them. This was my first time trying the stripes. I agree that they need to be parallel. I am going to get a new set and redo them.

 

I don't care for them. But I think your car looks good either way!

 

Nope!

 

I think they might look better alittle farther forward too.

 

Not for me... But your car is amazing!

 

They look bad on these cars in my opinion. Most of the cars that have them are otherwise very nice cars, but they just dont fit the lines of these cars at all. The waistline of our cars sort of dips and swoops, and these lines cannot follow it. Furthermore, the noses of these cars doesnt follow the curve of these stripes either (the 4th gens do). So it clashes on the bumper cover AND as it follows the side of the car.

You put them farther forward and they sit funny on the side marker and the clash between the profile of the bumper cover and the swoosh of the hockey stripe becomes much more obvious. You til them up to follow the waistline of the car and the bottom of the front section doesnt line up with the car's hip line.

Your car looks much better without it.

If you need to mess with it I'd experiment with masking tape and plastidip. It's removable if you mess up and $20-$30 for 3-4 cans would let you do those things 5 times over if you needed to to get it exactly right and make it fit the lines of the car. Plus it doesnt fade like paint. Your results will only be as good as the time you put into it, though.

I used plastidip on my hood and my headlight buckets and it turned out excellent. (See my sig)

 

I have em too, they were supposed to be a trial set, and made for a 4th gen, but they've been on the car for jeez 6-8 years now lol

 

i always liked the hockey stripes on the camaros....i sorta wish i could put them on my t/a but i'd imagine it would look aweful

 

Yes!!! These are mine

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Rocky's made the Hockey Stripes so popular here, we call them "Rocky Stripes"

 

Placement is off in my opinion, and the shape is a bit off when you look at the body lines of a thirdgen. I've always thought about doing them if I owned a coupe. I even made a RC dealer promo years ago. This was my take on the hockey stick stripe.

 

I saw this pic the other day and loved it

 

all these cars look bad. Especially the blue one.. rs/ss? Domestic rice. Hockey stripes are a big ole nope.

 

Your car is absolutely beautiful.
That looks like a very high end paint job.

I say no. Your car will look cleaner without it.

 

Domestic rice?!?!? Cool story bro!

 

Rs car with a SS hood. Nothing wrong with that

 

i like em

rockyd, beautiful car man!!!

 

I don't think they look horrible on any of the cars above, but I think they would look better on another car. It looks to dodge-ish to me.

 

Ouch dodgeish never looked at it that way haha. Now I have to look that. I tried then out a few years ago and like the difference of them. I am not a fan if tradition racing stripes and by all means don't have the perfect paint job to just leave it just painted. I wanted to be different without going crazy. These are fourth gen stripes that I do have to cut up to fit as good as they do.

 

What you have to ask yourself is this.

1. Does this modification make the car look better? Or just different?

2. Do you want the car to look better? Or different?

Different = unique

Better = does it compliment or contrast the lines of the car in an aesthetically pleasing way.

Consider full body stripes. They dont match any line on the car. They usually work well on smooth flowing cars without angular edges or a lot of painted frontal area. Think classic Jaguars, Shelby Cobras, Vipers, etc.

Now consider heritage stripes. They contrast and compliment natural thirdgen styling cues that they started with back in 1982. They've always done the narrow to flaring out pair of cutouts in the hood that echo the other curves of the car but in a contrasting way. Then when they did the heritage stripes they were very careful to show restraint and only put them on part of the hood and part of the decklid. Because restraint is very important.

Consider constrasting colored ground fx. From 82-84, the ground fx were very small and very integrated into the body lines. So they painted them a different color to break up the look of the car and add some contrast. The 85-90 ground fx were more exagerrated, but still were fairly well integrated into the normal body lines of the car. But even then tehy only did that until 87, and got rid of the Z28 and got rid of accent-colored ground fx because for the most part it just didnt look as good. The 85-90 ground fx did not need to be set off from the rest of the car. They set themselves off well enough and the clean look of the IROCs is a testament to that fact. There are some interesting looking Z28s from 85-87 that look really nice, and they look cool because tehy're a little different, but you had to add a lot of pin striping to make the look work. By and large everyone made the decision that a single color was better looking both inside of GM and sales numbers.

For 91-92, the ground fx are wildly exaggerated and aggressive. They are completely thematically separate from the body lines of the car. They need to be painted the same color as the car to integrate them in. This is why 91-92 ground fx look SO bad when painted an accent color and this is also why they got rid of the pin striping that IROCs have around the gfx line. But people like to do this often because it's "different". But different is not better.

These cars have clean flowing lines, they dont need a bunch of "different" painted all over them to smooth out abrupt body lines.



Look how well this matches the body lines of the car. It flows perfectly with them. It follows the angular front section and then follows the curve of the fender/hood line.



Same story here. It matches the lines of the car in every way.



Now in this case, you can see it doesnt really match the fender line or the hood line, or anything really. And that's why it doesnt look as good. But it is "different" and it gets attention, but I dont think it compliments the lines of the car. Fortunately for the fourth gens however, there's no a single hard angle on those cars. Everything on it swoops and flows, so when you have a stripe that swoops and flows... it just kind of fits.


Our cars... they're angular and sleek. We have hard edges. We have hard angles. And we have very distinct body lines. Any kind of stripe that we use needs to address that. Otherwise it's going to look bad. and I dont think stripes like that compliment the car very much at all.

Now compare this to another car that's "different", but it has a different that follows the body lines and themes of the car:



The two tone doesnt follow some vague line over the hood and B pillar that doesnt raelly exist. It follows the natural hip line of the car. A well-defined boundary line the separates the car thematically. This emphasizes it and they even add some interesting accent striping to emphasize the spoiler line to build off that. This is how "different" is done properly. I would probably rather see the rear accent lines follow the angle of the BACK of the spoiler and tail lights, but as it is they followed the front line of the spoiler and it still works okay.

 

^^^^ he does bring up very good but for more often not I get lots of compliments. It really comes down to what u want. Here is another pic that shows a little better on mine. And like inferno says it's off a little bit But I have taken inferno advice before!!!
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I think your car would look better without it, but it's very subtle due to the coloring.

It's like flames on cars, I hate flames because I dont think tehy really do anything for the looks of the car, but a lot of people love them. Ghost flames on the other hand are pretty cool because they're so subtle they dont take much away and they have a neat effect.

 

your car looks well taken care off, the stripes are so hard to fit, they almost take away, more then they add to your cars look. and on a side note, Go Blue!

 

InfernalVortex said it exactly right when it comes to stripes. The stripes have to match the contour of the car.

 

I like them myself. Mine are painted on the car and a lot more subtle than the 4th Gen sticker type. I would like to get them outlined with red or black pin stripe though.

 

I think that would look good. Your car looks great either way.

 

Who in the bloody hell's grey/silver vert is that

 

That's mine

 

Infernal Vortex is spot on regarding stripes on 3rd Gens.

To the OP, your car looks good with hockey stripes. The car would fantastic without the hockey stripes.

The key point is do you like the stripes?
It's your car what others think doesn't matter.

 

I also agree with Infernal Vortex. .......HUGE difference between better and different. ...and sometimes you DO get both, but sometimes, ya don't. To the OP, it doesn't look bad, but IMHO, it's better without.

 

I think it's just a matter of placement. One of my favorite cars on this site belongs to Sinister Z, whose yellow car has hockey stripes. Look at his link for a different approach/placement.

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/memb...-part-2-a.html

 

I say yes, with the tips mention above. It doesn't matter to move forward though, because it doesn't match the shape of the front of the car. I won't put it on if it was my car.

I guess the question is: are the hockey stripes so popular now they are being overdone and no longer making for a unique car?


Same for the twin racing stripes idea. Overdone. Everyone has them. You see econo boxes with them also, but unlike Crane Cam stickers, they don't make your car faster. Almost better now to go for the stock look.