If you are a fan of car racing, you know what racing stripes. Racing stripes are also called Le Mans stripes. These are used to race cars in order to help recognize them inside the field throughout the race. Today, however, racing stripes are more than just a way for your race car to be identified during the race.
Now, it is also a way for racecar drivers to personalize their car’s aggression. The first time that racing stripes are used was in the beginning of 1951. At that time, racing stripes are applied to the racecars of the Cunningham team. Traditionally, racing stripes were two parallel stripes, running from the front to the back in the center of the car’s white body.
These stripes helped the spectators in identifying the cars all through the race. Eventually, the blue stripes which were the listed US racing colors evolved to white body with blue chassis. This was when the racing cars have their chassis uncovered. The 1965 Ford Mustang GT360 was the very first road car that implemented racing stripes.
Then by 1960s, racing stripes are sometimes being used to the road cars just as with racing cars. The racing stripes used in road cars are called “go-faster stripes.” There is also an alternative racing stripe style feature with which the stripes, rather than running down the car’s center, wraps around sideways of the car. This style of racing stripes is known as the “bumblebee” stripes.
Why Choose Our Vinyl Stripes for Your Racing Car
Are you thinking of how to stripe your Mustang, Camaro or other racing car? When it comes to striping racing cars, you have two basic options. You have one – painted on racing stripes – or two – cut vinyl stripes. Both type of racing stripes have their advantages and disadvantages. So now you are wondering which one is better choice for you.
Painted on racing stripes are usually created by a paint shop or body shop. Depending on who will do the paint job or the materials used, painted on stripes could take a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. When painting the stripes on your race car, the shop will tape off the area of the car that will be stripped. This will only leave the part of the car which will be painted.
This part of the car will be sanded then sprayed either by base coat method or the standard method. Of course, there is also a downside in using painted on stripes. For one, they are usually high costs due to the paint and all the other labor done when applying the paint. Apart from being high cost, painted on stripes are quite difficult to remove or alter.
Where We Do Racing Stripes
- Destin, FL
- Fort Walton Beach, FL
- Niceville, FL
- Sundestin, FL
- Miramar Beach, FL
- Emerald Coast
- 30A
Racing Stripes – Easy To Remove or Change & Less Expensive
In case you are satisfied with your car’s painted on stripes, you are basically stuck with it. But this is not the case with vinyl stripes. Our vinyl stripes’ main advantage is the fact that it makes it easy for you remove or change. Compared to getting your car painted on, our vinyl stripes are a much less expensive choice for you.
Installed in Less Time
In addition, our vinyl striping kits can be easily installed in just an hour. It depends on how much stripping you want in your car or how much complex the application is. If you want your car stripped including the hood, the roof or the rear deck may take only less an hour. But if it is bumper to bumper pre cut vinyl stripes, applying it may take about 3 hours.
Easily Applied and Last Long
But once it has been applied, you will see your race car looking really magnificent and with added aggression as you wanted it to be. Apart from the cheap vinyl stripes cost, vinyl stripes are also very easy to apply. If you care for them properly, they can actually last for years. It is really amazing that vinyl stripes look almost like painted on stripes but only at a fraction of its price.
At the same time, it’s great that you won’t have to wait for your car for almost a week from the paint shop. This is because you can just apply the vinyl stripes yourself. The life expectancy of the vinyl racing stripes is probably one of your concerns, right? You probably think that it will not for long, not as much as painted on racing stripes.
Really though, the life expectancy of the vinyl stripes depend on the material you used, the color and also how much your car is exposed in the sun. Fortunately, our vinyl stripes are made of the highest quality materials that you can rest assured that they will last for much longer than what you expect. The fact is in the past decade, there have tremendous improvements in vinyl production.
Available in Wide Variety of Colors
On that note,10-4 Vehicle Wraps Destin utilizes such improvements in our vinyl stripes so that your car will have longer added personalized aggression to it. What we have for you are truly high quality vinyl stripes with high outdoor rating available in wide variety of colors. It’s not only the usual colors that we have for you but also metallic which wasn’t available before.
As mentioned above, vinyl stripes are easier to remove and replace if you want to. When removing the vinyl stripes, all you need to do is heat it with heat gun or hair dryer. Once heated, you just proceed to simply peeling the stripes off. If there are any residues left, you can just use an adhesive remover to get rid of it entirely.
Uses Computer in Design Work
Another great advantage to using our vinyl stripes is that we use a computer when designing it. Thus, it makes it possible for us to integrate words, curves and all other elements that would have been too difficult to integrate to your car using only paint. Using vinyl, it is easy for you to add more graphics to your car and wouldn’t you want that for added aggression to your car?
If you are looking for something practical and budgetary but still high quality, our vinyl stripes is your best choice. Whether you want Mustang stripes, Camaro stripes or any other type of racing stripes, know that our company can provide you with reliable vinyl stripe jobs that will leave your car truly nicely done.
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