VetteCop29

Just wanted to put something other than nothing on black 05 coupe. Just got out of a C4 w/red stripes (see album pics), but don't want to have" same car different year" look.

ALD_Z06

As long as you like it, who cares what other people think?

bluez06ny

I'm not into stripes Vettes are conspicuous enough but, stripes do add color and interest.

VET4LES

Yes it would be cheesy. If I had a GS with them I'd remove them.

johnodrake

Your car, your call.....

ZBoater

I wouldn't do it even on a '11 GS...

Easy Rhino

FWIW, the hash or slash predates the GS by decades, and was originally how a team with multiple cars in sports car racing could tell the cars (i.e. drivers) apart.

Although it was not officially sanctioned in the rules, it was typical for the lead/top driver to have no slashes, the second driver to have one slash, and the rookie driver to have two slashes.

Therefore, the use of the term "rookie stripes" has long been applied to the two slash decal. Us old guys still call them that. Cars with two slashes were expected to make way on the tracks for guys without slashes.

Back to your regular programing.

LTC Z06

Yep, and they came on the GS C4 and many C5 owners have them; and many C6 owners put them on before the GS come out.

peter pan

I like them just not the cost from GM for the real GS stripes

R&L's C6

Torchsport

This guy did it. Looked good. Although he had them painted on cheaper than the cost of the GM stripes. Plus the oem stripes are too long, as they are made to follow the wider fenders.

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F65MPH

GM does offer hash marks for non Grand Sport model. I presume this takes into account of the narrower fenders on the coupe models.

ZBoater

So does that mean that having no stripes, I'm the top driver, and having two stripes I'm the rookie?

I can live with that...

jschindler

Just take a gander through the forum at how many "base" cars have Z06 or ZR1 reproduction wheels, Z06 rear fenders etc, etc.

I think the most common response you will get is as long as you don't put the actual badges on the car from another (such as Z06 badges on a wide-body base car) nobody really seems to care.

C6 Don

I'm generally not a fan of stripes but sometimes I like the hood center stripes with certain colors. Old older vettes the stripes look like they are meant to be there.

HalfMoon

Those don't appear to be paint, 99% sure they are the GM stickers.

Notice the crossed flags in the front emblem, and that the emblems follow down all the way to the wheel well lip. That accounts for the extra space usually taken by the wider fenders. They just lined them up to the wheel well lip on the narrow fenders like you would on the GS.

HalfMoon

Normally I would be here telling you never to put the stickers on the car. Then I bought a GS and wasn't sure if I wanted to take them off or leave them on. I've always been a no sticker kind of guy, until I bought my GS.

Had I bought a car w/o the Heritage package, I would never have added them, but they were already on the car and I actually like them with my color combo after spending some time with it.

F it. If you like them, try it out. if you decide you don't like it you can pull them off. This is your car and the hash marks are a part of Corvette history. Please yourself first, then proceed to not give a $%^& what anyone else thinks.

69L79

I opted out for stripes on my GrandSport. However, GS stripes are a nice accent for a Car, if you like them. Just don't put the "homemade" stripes on the Car. Most of them look "homemade". And, add nothing to the look.

NYC6

TCW

Stripes look cheesy on anything! Even race cars haven't used them since the sixty's.

Tom