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PostSubject: "watch out - this riviera is poisonous" stripes   "watch out - this riviera is poisonous" stripes EmptyFri Aug 28, 2009 1:45 am

not a brand new idea and I'm not sure about it myself yet but I'm gonna try it out and see how it tastes.. thought I'd share

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Hawt.. This is my first post with my iPod touch
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no
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Make them thicker and either white or red. I love gransport stripes.
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any good photoshoppers want to play with stripes? I don't think I'd ever do it to my car, but I wonder how they'd look on black, if the stripes were red or blue or something. Also I think I'd go a different direction with the stripes, more horizontal less diagonal.

Turtle, are those done? Or are you just testing with some black tape?
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IBx1 wrote:
.... I love gransport stripes.


Could you please explain what you mean? Define "gransport"?
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edit* did not realize the stripes on the fender, my eyesight must be getting bad.

They look good, not my style but definitely dont make the car look bad


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1998 Riv wrote:
IBx1 wrote:
.... I love gransport stripes.


Could you please explain what you mean? Define "gransport"?

He forgot a D, but here
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I am not much of a Corvette fan but I have always loved the looks of the Grandsport edition. I think only 2000 were made...
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For Chevy it's Grand Sport, but being a Buick it can be a Gran Sport - the twin dia stripes would have no reference to the GS option.

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Yes, Grand Sport and Gran Sport have been used a number of times over the years. There is no such thing as Buick Gran Sport stripes, exactly. On my 68 GS350, a factory option was a pair of thinner red parallel stripes along the rocker panel. But that was an option all by itself, not a std GS detail.
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This is black tape - heavy duty electrical tape actually

I could never do it for real but If the tape looks good enough and holds up, why not
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Still can't decide how I feel about em...I kinda like em. I think I need to put wider ones down and tint my turn lights before I'm sold
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llamalor2112 wrote:
"watch out - this riviera is poisonous" stripes IMAG3100-1_zpsd23ba304

Still can't decide how I feel about em...I kinda like em. I think I need to put wider ones down and tint my turn lights before I'm sold

Get thicker ones.
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hm..interesting....
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This was on a whim on my way home today, red electrical tape on sale so I got it to try the idea. I agree, I think thicker and it'd probably do alright even with my wheels
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I dont know about all these stripes....

I'd say without is better..
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well, there's a fakeup of thicker stripes but as of today, they're off the car. Never know though...Until I decide, I'll just keep working on cherrying it up under the hood cool
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I had mine for a little while and got my fill of it I guess. I was just using like 2" thick black electrical tape and after a while it would start to recede from the sun or something and then looked like shit. I tried to elbow grease it the 2nd time and it did the same thing so it was over at that point. My friend has the actual tape they make for this purpose from pepboys or something and his seem to be keeping up alright. He layered the tape with equal stepover to get thicker stripes out of it.
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Codith, why are you trying to show the world that your turtle is poisonous? Are you trying to warn people?
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I like the stripes, but not taped.
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charlieRobinson wrote:
Codith, why are you trying to show the world that your turtle is poisonous? Are you trying to warn people?

I don't have the stripes anymore. But the other thing is this; sleepers are awesome but if you pose no threat, people won't notice enough to race you in the first place. I find that to be a problem in this car sometimes
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LOL then tint your windows? lmao
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Or buy a set of nice wheels!

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EBC bluestuff/Hawk HP plus • SS lines • Brembo slotted discs • DHP tuned • Aeroforce • Hidden Hitch

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AA wrote:
Or buy a set of nice wheels!
Yeah but wheels aren't really a dead give away. I've had wheels for a good while now and it didn't seem to change much in that aspect. After all I live in chicago which means there's probably more rivieras with rims and sound systems than stock at this point. I see lots of cars on the street with some nice looking wheels, even purposeful to racing, that are on otherwise stock, not-fast cars (so far as I can know).
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