[Keith Seymore]

A word about assembly fixtures:

Fixtures, like for adhesive body side trim, hood opening squaring, or - in this case - pinstriping, often are only used at the time of introduction or while management is watching.

They usually fall into disuse because they represent more work for the line operator by having to retrieve them, place them and then put them back at the end of that work cycle, up to 400 times a day.

In their defense, you do get pretty good after doing that many and - in truth nobody can see both sides of the vehicle at the same time.