Guest CL_Reatta Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Sitting in electronics class talking about cars with Tim and I got to wondering, why does the pin striping on the drivers door stop in the middle and then continue again, but doesn't stop on the passenger side? Just wondering if anyone knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mgibson Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Because the pin striping you are looking at on the passenger side is incorrect. All the factory paint (not decal) striping did not continue across the doors. There is a 28 to 28 1/2 inch break starting below the mirror and ending about 1 inch in front and above the door handle. It is odd that the 2 doors do not match! Maybe the passenger side was replaced from another car that had been incorrectly striped.Martel Gibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MauiWowee Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 The passenger side must have been redone. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CL_Reatta Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 hmmm, will have to look when I get home, I do believe that my trunk has a paint that is faded, but the passenger side feels like a sticker (decal) never thought about it until today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MauiWowee Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 The factory pinstripes are painted. There is a code in the trunk that defines the stripe, or stripe delete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CL_Reatta Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Well, it looks as though someone down the list of owner(s) had decal pin stripes put on after the original ones faded off. I guess this because the back, and from the drivers door back is the original pin stripe except it has faded off. but the rest is decal. Now I need to decide whether to replace all of the decal with new painted pin stripes, or have pin stripe decal for the rest of the car. Thanks for your help guy's another mystery is now solved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest F14CRAZY Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Our Maui had an authentic looking pinstripe, but was not painted. It gets confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 The GM service part is tape, not paint. Unless you wanted to pay for it. For a driver the tape is fine. That's the norm today. I prefer the painted on stripe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 My first reatta 90 burg/red pinstripe was white painted on and continious front to rear. The one I have now 91 white/flame red has red pinstripe tape. I never understood why the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MauiWowee Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 A tape stripe could either be a bodyshop job (like CL's mismatched pinstripe), or a dealer addition to a pinstripe delete car. Like mentioned, a painted pinstripe can always be had for a price. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Eaton Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 All factory pinstripes were painted, at the Homecoming we found a picture of the pinstripe fixture attached to a Reatta.GM did have a replacement pinstripe that was tape.Also note.........(1) there was a pinstripe delete option with a $45 credit. I have seen a few cars with the incorrect pinstriping that originally were pinstripe delete cars and someone decided to add a pinstripe.(2) pinstripe color....there were 8 colors each year and the order form suggested that the pinstripe match the interior. However, it appears you could have ordered any of the 8 colors on any exterior color. So far I have not seen a weird combination like blue stripe on a red car but there was nothing that said you couldn't order one like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadster90 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 My stripe is a little "off" color wise. I have a gunmetal coupe with dove gray interior and the stripe is a dark, but bright OEM RED stripe. The red stripe is OEM per the label in the spare tire well. Even though it is not, and doesn't sound color co ordinating, it actually looks fairly nice. Since I had the DuPont Chroma Premier Lifetime Delux ($3500.00) squirt job, I went ahead and opted for the painted stripe also. The body shop discounted cost for the stripe (they used an outside source) was $120.00 which I didn't feel was a bad figure....it certainly looks great <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manikmekanik Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 On my '91 drop-top, the factory red stripe is also dark in tint, I believe it's due to the fact there's black paint under it. On the white cars, the same color stripe seems to be brighter. Base color can enhance the hue of the color painted over it.To get the same color, (hue), stripe on darker colored cars, there would need to e white stripes painted on first, then red painted over the white.Not a viable option in a production setting, and very challenging for the artist who must cover/match the stripes, to achieve the proper effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CL_Reatta Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The GM service part is tape, not paint. Unless you wanted to pay for it. For a driver the tape is fine. That's the norm today. I prefer the painted on stripe. </div></div>Does anyone know the part number for the tape? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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