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el ess A · 03-13-2014, 08:53 AM

I've seen 2014 SS's on the lots. I've seen rally striped ones in pics. Today, I saw a SW SS/RS 'vert and it had black rally stripes. An older gentleman (around 70-ish) was driving it.

Now I really like the factory rally stripe design on the 5th gens, but there's just SOMETHING about that cener vent being black as well really messed that up. It clashed and didn't flow at all. Sorry, didn't like it.

If'n it were me, I'd pull those vinyl stripes off, and paint them on, and include the hood vent in the rally stripe design (white center between the painted stripes) and make it look uniform.

Car looked great otherwise.

maddoggyusa · 03-13-2014, 09:43 AM

you can get the vent painted body color... I think it looks much better with the stripes... after looking and finding no examples maybe I haven't seen it... but it's supposed to be available.

full length indy stripes look cool!

Cheveey57 · 03-13-2014, 10:28 AM

^. Looks too mustangish

Swacer · 03-13-2014, 10:30 AM

Don't insult. People get extremely butthurt VERY quickly.

Cheveey57 · 03-13-2014, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Swacer

Don't insult. People get extremely butthurt VERY quickly.

Poster says he has a '13 so that isn't his car. He gave his opinion and I gave mine. People have to grow thicker skins and stop being so PC.

jdsblueray2013 · 03-13-2014, 10:35 AM

Looks a LOT CAMARO-I$H!!!!!!!!!

maddoggyusa · 03-13-2014, 10:37 AM

has anybody seen rally stripes on a gen5 similar to gen1 where they go full width to the front edge of the car?

1LE801 · 03-13-2014, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by maddoggyusa

you can get the vent painted body color... I think it looks much better with the stripes... after looking and finding no examples maybe I haven't seen it... but it's supposed to be available.

full length indy stripes look cool!

Looks good!!

maddoggyusa · 03-13-2014, 10:40 AM

yes, these aren't my cars... my '13 has no stripes! :(

caverman · 03-13-2014, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by maddoggyusa

has anybody seen rally stripes on a gen5 similar to gen1 where they go full width to the front edge of the car?

Not many but I wanted mine to look more like a 1st Gen. I had mine custom made and went almost to the end but I thought the rounded edge looked better. I definitely wanted wider though. IMO not only does it look better but it makes the cowl type hood more prominent. I flipped and did round in the front but all the way off the back of the hood. The opposite of what 1st Gen did.

BTW: I'm not a fan of the grill in the hood period...especially not with the rally stripes.

maddoggyusa · 03-13-2014, 10:58 AM

yea, I like the rally stripes that go in front of the mail slot. That's about the closet I've seen to the Gen1 stripes. Looks sharp!

Ringo64 · 03-13-2014, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by caverman

Not many but I wanted mine to look more like a 1st Gen. I had mine custom made and went almost to the end but I thought the rounded edge looked better. I definitely wanted wider though. IMO not only does it look better but it makes the cowl type hood more prominent. I flipped and did round in the front but all the way off the back of the hood. The opposite of what 1st Gen did.

BTW: I'm not a fan of the grill in the hood period...especially not with the rally stripes.

Why did GM reverse the stripes on the hood? Liked it better from Gen 1, bleeding to the edge of the front facia and rounding out my the top of the hood

caverman · 03-13-2014, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Ringo64

Why did GM reverse the stripes on the hood? Liked it better from Gen 1, bleeding to the edge of the front facia and rounding out my the top of the hood

GM didn't do that. I had mine custom made.

You really can't do the rounded edge at the windshield with the hood on the 5th Gen. If you look at the 1st Gen hood it actually stops prior to the windshield. The 1st Gen has a section of metal between the hood and the windshield. That made it so that you could round off the stripes on there (I think that's actually called a cowl). The 5th gen doesn't have that. The hood goes all the way to the windshield. If you were to round off the 5th Gen's stripes in the back then it would look goofy IMO because the rounding would actually be on the hump that is made to look like the 1st Gen's cowl induction hood. The hoods are similar but different enough that it wouldn't work out so well to round the stripes off at the windshield.

Bear · 03-13-2014, 04:22 PM

Heres mine with full length stripes. A little different than CaverMans, mine are not rounded, they are pointed.

03-13-2014, 08:53 AM	#1
el ess A Older Than Dirt Drives: 2010 & 2013 Camaros Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Aiken, SC Posts: 4,564	Saw my first live 2014 rally striped SS 'vert. I've seen 2014 SS's on the lots. I've seen rally striped ones in pics. Today, I saw a SW SS/RS 'vert and it had black rally stripes. An older gentleman (around 70-ish) was driving it. Now I really like the factory rally stripe design on the 5th gens, but there's just SOMETHING about that cener vent being black as well really messed that up. It clashed and didn't flow at all. Sorry, didn't like it. If'n it were me, I'd pull those vinyl stripes off, and paint them on, and include the hood vent in the rally stripe design (white center between the painted stripes) and make it look uniform. Car looked great otherwise. __________________ 2010 2SS TE, 1 of 822/2013 Camaro ZL1 vert, 1 of 54

03-13-2014, 09:43 AM	#2
maddoggyusa Drives: 2013 Camaro Dusk 2SS/6 Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,586	you can get the vent painted body color... I think it looks much better with the stripes... after looking and finding no examples maybe I haven't seen it... but it's supposed to be available. full length indy stripes look cool! Last edited by maddoggyusa; 03-13-2014 at 10:24 AM.

03-13-2014, 10:28 AM	#3
Cheveey57 Drives: 2010 Camaro 2LT RS Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Long Island Posts: 1,425	^. Looks too mustangish __________________ If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

03-13-2014, 10:30 AM	#4
Swacer Drives: 2018 GT350 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: PA Posts: 2,719	Don't insult. People get extremely butthurt VERY quickly. __________________ Off to the Dark Side

03-13-2014, 04:22 PM	#14
Bear Drives: 2015 Green Flash 2SS M6 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Long Island, New York Posts: 352	Heres mine with full length stripes. A little different than CaverMans, mine are not rounded, they are pointed. __________________ Back in the Game.

03-13-2014, 10:35 AM	#6
jdsblueray2013 Drives: 2013 Camaro 2ssrs Blue Ray Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Chi town, south suburbs Posts: 613 View My Garage	Looks a LOT CAMARO-I$H!!!!!!!!!

03-13-2014, 10:37 AM	#7
maddoggyusa Drives: 2013 Camaro Dusk 2SS/6 Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,586	has anybody seen rally stripes on a gen5 similar to gen1 where they go full width to the front edge of the car?

03-13-2014, 10:40 AM	#9
maddoggyusa Drives: 2013 Camaro Dusk 2SS/6 Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,586	yes, these aren't my cars... my '13 has no stripes! :(

03-13-2014, 10:58 AM	#11
maddoggyusa Drives: 2013 Camaro Dusk 2SS/6 Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,586	yea, I like the rally stripes that go in front of the mail slot. That's about the closet I've seen to the Gen1 stripes. Looks sharp!