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Originally Posted by gtoric
I guess the best answer came from Tim. Red and White stripes.
But, I'm still curious if the late-year GTOs got the sword stripes, or if they continued with the eyebrow stripes.
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This is a very good question, did they kill the D-98 option on GTO's at this point or did they continue using the left over two color stripes? I would think if there was a 71 GTO out there with factory sword stripes it would have surfaced by now but who knows.
Someplace I have a pic of the front fenders of my GT-37 where you can see the red and white stripes folded into the fender lip, I will track it down and post it. I don't like admitting how long I have had that car since its still unfinished but I have many years researching the stripes, including exchanging snail mail with Jon Sawruk on the subject on a few occasions, mostly because the car had none on it when I bought it...it was a few years before I found the remains of the stripes on the fenders inner edge. Obviously there is never and absolute but i don't believe you were allowed to pick your stripe color, most of the colors combos I have seen over the years followed the same pattern, Lucern /red and white, Nordic silver/red and black, Aztec gold /red and white, castillian bronze / red and white and so on.... I have not seen a car of every 71 color with stripes but fairly close.
Eric, I would need to go home and look (work today) but if i remember right my GT-37 was built as late as April and still had the eyebrow stripes....I will check and let you know. Years ago I took parts from a Nordic silver 71 GTO that had red and black two color stripes on it (the pic of the fender is everywhere on the net) I wish I could tell you when that car was built but unfortunately I didn't look much at that stuff back then, it kills me because I would really like to know today.