What is the origin of this stripe pattern?

"JCAlan" (jcalan) 04/27/2014 at 20:10 • Filed to: None

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My Challenger has them, and I've always thought of them as a Dodge thing. But recently I've been noticing them on all kinds of makes/models. Can anyone definitively point to the first use of these fender stripes?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > JCAlan 04/27/2014 at 20:26

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I know that it's a hallmark of the Corvette Grand Sport, but I doubt that that's where it originated from.

Blondude > JCAlan 04/27/2014 at 20:26

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Heh, my first comment on Jalopnik was on this.

The earliest usage of the dual fender stripes that I know of was on some Cobras racing as early as 1962.

JCAlan > Blondude 04/27/2014 at 20:31

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Well there you go. How bout first use on a production car?

f86sabre > JCAlan 04/27/2014 at 20:32

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from what I can find they were first used on Cobra CSX2128 at the 1963 12 Hours of Sebring to differentiate it from its sister cars. All the Cobras that ran were painted black.

Blondude > JCAlan 04/27/2014 at 20:39

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The C4 Corvette Grand Sports are the earliest I can think of but I doubt those are the first production cars to have them.

lone_liberal > JCAlan 04/27/2014 at 20:48

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Corvettes had them in the early 60s too, which is why the Grand Sports have them.

Axial > lone_liberal 04/27/2014 at 21:07

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I don't know about the Cobras, but on the Corvettes the stripes were functional. The stripes were only on one side since one side faces the viewing stands and the number of stripes denoted which car it was, since they were identical.

6shelBfan6 > JCAlan 04/28/2014 at 01:46

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At one point they were to identify rookie drivers. Not sure if that was their original purpose however.