Who Invented Racing Stripes? | WheelHouse | Donut Media

Racing stripes are THE quintessential mark for performance. On everything from the Ford GT, to the Ferrari 488 GTO, to your neighbor’s beater, racing stripes mean fast. But who invented them? Was it Carroll Shelby, the man behind such striped cars as the Cobra, GT350 and Daytona Coupe? Or someone else? Join Nolan Sykes as he finds out.
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[@ItsMikeArre]

Who invented racing strips the dude that needed those extra 10hp to win

[@КлиментЦонков]

That's an e46.

[@КлиментЦонков]

Paul Williams It was a joke, Paul, just a joke.

[@guigui70051]

Mike Arredondo 10hp and lower drag coefficient

[@M.asa.]

I believe it added around 15hp

[@Catalina._]

Paul Williams i love fucking pussy, it's just so soft and warm mmmmmrhrh

[@galil_6863]

Hey man can you do something about pop up headlights?

[@V8Supercar1]

DaRealCarlos \ Well we all know why they went away. Aerodynamics, failure rates and safety reasons.

[@12bot5shot9]

Yeeeeeeeeeeees

[@axeledwards4162]

Donut media already made a video about pop up headlights I think

[@nootyt521]

V8Supercar1 But why were they made? (I know the answer but some don’t)

[@V8Supercar1]

NootYT Yeah. I do think that question was what the original poster was asking. But I was just adding the reaons why they went away.

[@megaman5125]

RAMCHARGERS!

[@ChristianVBlue3]

megaman5125 **lift arms up**

[@marcust510]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@thelonewanderer420]

RAMCHARGERS!

[@Firebird-ru7je]

That shit was funny!

[@NightbladeNotty]

Had to drop my phone to say this 😂🙌

[@daniellefreyaold6099]

"Thanks to guys i have never heard of " yeah, when it comes to modern tech, industry, and advances we rely on, pretty much the way it all goes. its the collective effort of thousands of nameless individuals, pushing on their niche to make it a little better. its honestly awe inspiring. you, yes, YOU can make a difference someday, even if noone has ever heard of you. you rock.

[@nO-vu7hs]

stickers = power.

[@fartmerchant762]

I drive a Honda and this is true, many Mustang owner tears have been spilt due to my fake hood vents and horsepower stickers

[@Sr_iRL]

Ricer 😂😂

[@alejandrogonzales7022]

100% true. You don't even need a K&N filter if you have a sticker (combined at least one sticker from Summit).

[@tennesseeoutdoorsman9103]

Ricer logic 101

[@galil_6863]

Editor part = likes

[@ndk2k4]

Stripes on the hood are to allow the driver to align the car during fast turning maneuvers. At least thats how Ford explains the origins.

[@jasontruman1215]

ndk2k4 this ^^^^^ it actually works

[@OliverVijar]

Same application on my old Merc, the hood ornament is like a scope, good to aim with it

[@206beastman]

that's what I heard

[@jasontruman1215]

Oliver Vijar it’s also a technique semi truck driver use

Today I learn :D Thank you!

[@luisruis894]

This guy looks like everyone’s cousin 🤔

[@Grumpycat95]

Luis ruis We'll call him cousin Hefe

[@DavidLopezcruz08]

Luis ruis that one weird cousin

[@rengoku8852]

Yeahh

[@Yourmomloser]

Luis ruis the unpopular cousin that tries to hard to be funny

[@yaboidustin2447]

Luis ruis ik

[@DELTADAN84]

Racing stripes such as these come from allied fighter aircraft in WW2 on the d-day invasion of france. They were identifications so that allied soldiers, aircraft, anti-aircraft gunners and others wouldn't shoot at their own friendly aircraft. They were on the p-51 mustang, p-38 lightning, p-47 thunderbolt and others. Airplanes ≥ cars.

[@blackshadow7192]

The other main origin is that stripes were actually flags. Like Ferrari was doing and actually still do. i.pinimg.com/564x/c0/1b/74/c01b7461bd01ca35b85509834ebb70f3--racing-stripes-flag.jpg images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/368537/Copie20de20Ph20Chuck20Greaminger20007.jpg

[@theunknownroad3118]

Ferrari definitely didn't have a hand in the popularization of stripes.

[@GrOuNdZeRo7777]

Indeed, Ferrari's color always was Corsa Rosso.

[@dixiewhiskey3273]

And yet they still killed a bunch of airborne that went in as reinforcements. Damn navy

[@nickroitman6743]

@@dixiewhiskey3273 what does d-day stand for?

[@leslie7872]

"as aerodynamic as a brick" I don't know why I found that so funny 😂 I literally imagined an actual brick silloutte shaped car on a track 😂

[@jessesteinbar]

I found it too

[@joskethegreat4154]

Update in Dec 2019: Tesla Cybertruck resembles the most similar to brick lmfao

[@mateomonteagudo8620]

Cybertruck intesifies

[@tor2823]

@@joskethegreat4154 * volvo 745 1988 joined the chat *

[@rockingrugger]

watch their vids on the Volvo 240s

[@Coronet_shop]

Who invented Spoilers & Hood Scoops??

[@КлиментЦонков]

The Coronet Shop The first spoiler was on a porsche 356, if I'm not mistaken.

[@КлиментЦонков]

Some cars didn't have hoods, so they put some metal but may be the engine sticked out so they left it like that. Hoods were probably invented after hood scoops.

[@eddieru]

spoiler or wing? there’s a difference, but i looked up both can’t find anything really for production cars just of mclaren experimenting with wings in the early 60’s they dropped it then lotus adopted it to the lotus 49 in 1967

[@rasseracermusen2324]

ricers lol , no just kidding

[@Coronet_shop]

lego technic thnx

[@WALTERRIFIC]

Weird, we used the same song for a video twelve days apart! Love your videos, guys.

[@Pokeman_official1]

Walter love your vids

[@rivermcratt3683]

That makes you a douchebag you know that right? I'm getting sick of having to listen to music while trying to listen to somebody talk about a subject. If it's a mother fucking music video just play music, if it's an information video talk and demonstrate your information.

[@kutsumiru]

@@rivermcratt3683 why are you so upset lol

[@rivermcratt3683]

@@kutsumiru why do assume that just because somebody disagrees with you, they must be angry? Wait, I will answer that for you. It's your way of discrediting somebody. If you mark all disagreement as anger or hostility you can invalidate a person's point as an emotion instead of an intellectual perspective. So not only are you a douchebag, you're now a coward and intellectually myopic.

[@kutsumiru]

@@rivermcratt3683 please stop embarrassing yourself

[@jameshavenga4998]

Cunningham cars are pretty popular to anyone who knows their racing history. And any guy who's done any research on American classic racecars knows who Peter Brock is. Hell I'm pretty sure there's even a Jay Leno's garage with Peter Brock, so I wouldn't say that these two are "guys we've never heard of".

[@samueljackson856]

My underwear have racing stripes.

[@lisaarmstrong5461]

Because you sh*t too fast.

[@stupidtuna]

“FAST”

[@frankrizzo2724]

My racing underwear have skidmarks

[@coolbreezelb5023]

@Versal Mit Unterstrich haha, I see what you did there.

[@markosramirez6356]

That brown line down the middle don't count

[@JTSuarez]

Racing stripes = more HP

[@ROQFAN]

If you're a Le Mans fan or a Shelby fan, Pete Brock is someone you've heard of.

[@bencrowe88]

Or Datsun for that matter

[@Lambullghini]

*One bmw driver spilled his coffe while turning without a turn signal and the car started drifting and they havent used turn signals ever since*

[@AndrewDasilvaPLT]

GHOST pretty sure his tires were 1.5 psi off too, right?

[@bryanwhite3021]

Study shows that camry owners are the most likely to not use signals, you only notice bmw and other germans because you notice those cars more and state at them longer

[@jailinmatthews-brown6704]

Idk what was funnier ur comment making fun of hin or his comment abt bmw's

[@Lambullghini]

@Space Dandy to be honest i dont remember commenting a single one of these comments or replys, like legit, its possible that it was someone else since i couldnt recover my google account for like a few months 2 years ago

[@theunknownone5663]

What if you put racing stripes on a person, I wonder how fast they would be🤔

[@darkcrusher-jt1dr]

Bunthoeun Tao ever hear of adidas tracksuit?

[@darkcrusher-jt1dr]

GHOST ever heard of the avatar: the last air bender?

[@darkcrusher-jt1dr]

GHOST he has racing stripes

[@paperboy725]

*fast as fuck boii*

[@elpatas2594]

An Adidas track suit will have similar performance but drag is a slight issue

[@AuroraAtAngelsTen]

Racing stripes also served a purpose at the time when they showed up. In the 50s and 60s, cars were a lot softer and tires had higher slip angles, so a lot of the tuning of the handling of the car was done by just watching the car go around corners. Racing stripes are painted straight down the car so that an engineer or spotter watching the car go around a corner can see how the car is rotating, without worrying about being deceived by the curves of the car. But nowadays cars are stiffer, tires have lower slip angles, and computers just beam all of this data and more to your pitbox so you don't need to hike across the racetrack to find out how the car is performing...

[@reggielee2235]

Let’s not forget back in the day, Pete Brock was and still is the man behind Brock Racing Enterprises a.k.a BRE and because of his racing team.. the Datsun 510 dominated the Trans-Am racing series in the early 70s.

[@TheCanadianBubba]

Indeed... some of the coolest racing stripes ever !!! miss them up here, sadly all but the most loved (garaged) have dissapeared (rotted) 2.0 head on a 1.6 = magic

[@reggielee2235]

TheCanadianBubba Agreed!! The L16 inline 4 engine was and is a high reving beauty. Sadly a lot of 510’s have either rotted away, been junked, or highly modified haha. Such beautiful cars and ahead of their time.

[@luchadorito]

0:13 Thats a Duesenberg guitar, named after the 1930s luxury car maker Duesenberg. They do all sorts of vintage vechile inspired details on their instruments with lots of Chrome parts, racing stripes, super chunky and sparkly metal flake paintjobs and so on. Gretsch and Italia do that whole automotive inspired guitar design thing too with Gretsch focusing on 50s Cadillac type designs and details and Italia more of a 60s Fiat/Vespa/Piaggio theme (which is a bit tacky but It’s definietely original and something I respect). Also electric guitars up until like the late 70s were painted with the same nitrocellulose paint as American cars. Both Gibson and Fender share some classic colours with American cars of the 50s(pelham blue, candy apple red, fiesta red, shell pink, daphne blue and so on). So Yea guitarmaking and car design had a connection since the earliest days of the electric guitar(about which I could go on for hours), It’s not a new gimmick

[@3.5ecoboostjorgais64]

I just love how the two model cars appeared out of nowhere in 4:23

[@Quickskech]

Great Video, I always enjoy your content. You missed a point about the function of Racing stripes. Engineers used them on racecars to gauge the slip-angle their drivers were carrying through turns. With the bias-ply tires in the days of yore, slip angle was quite dramatic. Very different then today's slot-car-esque handling, on modern radials with nearly zero visible slip-angle.

[@Catalina._]

Racing stripes = help straighten the airflow = better aerodynamics = speeeeeeed

[@ryanlohr6166]

Didn't mention the purpose, or at least a purpose for racing stripes. They help determine if the car is going straight through the corners. If the stripes don't seem straight through the apex, the car is probably has some understeer or oversteer.

[@manfromnantucket9544]

There are racing stripes on my prostate massager

[@milosmoore4400]

So you finish faster?

[@przemysawkulwas873]

U guys need waaay more subscribes. I know it's not like half of the people on the Earth are interested about cars, but you're doing it as good as no one else and just do it like you do. Then world is gonna be a better place. Greetings from Poland 😀

[@LawrenceRoss1906]

Wait...you've never heard of Briggs Cunningham? He's literally the original Most Interesting Man in the World.

[@jmbpinto73]

There yopu go, look him up! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briggs_Cunningham

[@tudorsturza7664]

Honestly wheel house is the best. You are like James May, calming voice, calm etc, and james is like jeremy, a bit crazy but funny haha

[@averagecitizen863]

Who invented the automatic transmission

[@reggielee2235]

Fawzy utd Alfred Munro

[@AvojetlifeGames]

A speedy black man

[@averagecitizen863]

Reggie Lee Are you sure , last time i checked i found like 7 names or more

[@averagecitizen863]

Avojetlife Games A speedy black man that knows da wae

[@reggielee2235]

Fawzy utd It should be haha I could be wrong because I learned this over a decade ago but it should be Alfred Munro. He’s a Canadian man who died a while ago.

[@jaked5651]

Just checked out the Briggs Cunningham's exhibit at the Rev's Institute, OMG so insane!

[@evanjensen5155]

0:35 WHOOP WHOOP 😂

[@OklahomaWildman94]

I've just found this channel and watched quite a few of your videos, I gotta say this guy is hilarious. Could watch him narrate anything.

[@rodbautistagabitano1339]

For the Nth time, I got a question, "Can I be called a car guy even if..." I don't build my car, I bought it brand new, It's still stock yet fine by me, I'm contented with around 150hp and 190Nm of torque, I still doesn't have plans of making her horse power higher, She is automatic, I only change tires if me and my car need to, I love sports cars and super cars but I am not dreaming of owning some, Though, I appreciate the beauty of cars history, I love the engineering, I take care of my car, I maintain her well, always checking her tires, wheels, engine, oils, coolant, baterry, steering, brakes, belts, lights, leaks (if there's any), washer, wipers, tools, accessories, gas, cleanliness, hoses, horn, safety, and everything in between, I love my car, and the best feeling is when I drive her. So, can I still be called a car guy?

[@TheRPGentleman]

What car is it?

[@peytonschaefer7479]

Yes. Absolutely

[@BladeBillyard]

Don't forget about the original single offset racing stripe... Cars with drivers from many different countries ment cars with drivers on either side of the car. The stripe was used to identify what side of the car the driver was if he crashed allowing for responders to not waste time trying to figure out which side he was on. These stripes were also synonymous with speed.

[@TABBYMUSIC]

My socks have racing stripes. They fast bois

[@totalmotors5709]

Hey quick thing to add Carol Shelby actually liked the idea of stripes as his team could analyse the way the cars were performing in the corners in le Mans.

[@CarsOverdose]

What's the background music??

[@dawge30]

Hey, love your content. BUT, you never heard of Pete Brock?!? Dude, BRE!!! His Datsun 510s tore up the under 2-liter class in late '60's SCCA racing... The more you know... Good video, keep up the great work!

[@carlmwaamba9846]

I walked past a house almost every day and they have a shelby cobra but they left it outside for years in jack strands without a cover so the paint has failed all what not, basically they didn't take the slightest bit of care for it so it always makes me wonder what the hell is wrong with them but if they just don't understand what car it is maybe I could buy it, restore it and sell it for much more in the future

[@cnat_sepll]

It's probably some dudes kit car who got married and had to ditch it

[@carlmwaamba9846]

Lachlan Wilson I should hope so

[@georgeglass7709]

A real cobra is worth seven figures

[@carlmwaamba9846]

George Glass that's the problem

[@cnat_sepll]

It's definitely not a real cobra

[@willferland]

Stripes actually help the driver know the direction of the car better, especially when the sun hits the hood, a single color blends together and if you start sliding, you can’t tell, but with stripes, you can see that the stripes aren’t aligned properly and adjust

[@jentzenchong553]

Make an episode about who invented anti-lag system and how it works 💥

[@FD36]

*EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES* *MISFIRING SHISTEM!*

[@lilithcal]

My brother used to have an old pickup that he painted yellow with an off center black racing stripe. On the side was painted “Yellow Fever.”

[@RandomMannith]

Lil bit of that FoMoCo to wash out that Mopar taste you guys been having this week

[@DyreWulf]

I gotta say, I really like this setup that Donut Media has be using lately.

[@nybotor]

We all know that they add at least 250 HP!

[@dougontheotherchannel3078]

This is a solid friggin channel. Wheelhouse is by far the best

[@kftmotorsport]

What about who have the idea of windshield wipers? And the reason why they had various type of "resting" position..benefits..blablavla?

[@band-maidsheep2665]

Stripes on guitars exist on selective "neck-thru" guitars. The most common types are the bolt-on,which the neck is attached to the body; And the neck-thru (or its set-neck derivatives) which the neck is constructed along with the center part of the body, and the wings or left and right sides of the guitar are added later. Electric guitars in the 70s to 90s aren't particular of this, I think they started doing this in the 90s,I remember Ibanez just didn't paint the center or the neck parts of the guitar and that made the appeal. Another reason is some guitars have, to save cost,have different wood construction. Like a maple or mahogany neck, then basswood left and right parts of the body. That helps lessen costs as basswood is cheaper than mahogany, while giving the same quality of the guitar. So, yeah, why stripes on these kinda guitar exists.

[@arthuromer2296]

This chanel is so cool Love u guys

[@jaked5651]

I learned today that originally his cars used blue frame rails and white paint. But once race car body started to cover the frame rails, blue stripes were painted on in replacement.

[@jacksonstone2293]

I play guitar and I can confirm that some guitars are indeed faster than other

[@lookatmattscar]

LOL so true. My Charvel is way faster than my Fender.

[@Bljento]

You guys are the best channel on youtube. Thank you for all the shows and keep it going!!

[@Jay_Knif07]

This is a ideia for get up to speed DO SHELBY DAYTONA OR COBRA OR CAROL SHELBY

[@wallflower5961]

YESSS PLEASE

[@Donut]

It's definitely gonna happen after all the research we did on Shelby for this episode. Thanks for watching!

[@georgeglass7709]

Donut Media it's a much better story. It's a true David v Goliath. The ford v Ferrari isn't really. Ford wrote a blank cheque to Lola. Shelby on the other hand tested his cars ina dirt track. It's the real badass story. So tired of the ford Goliath beating David story of the gt40

[@ErrorMacro713]

I've heard of Briggs Cunningham... that man was a legend. I find it surprising that you haven't but then again I may be a bit of a nerd with car stuff. *shrug*

[@nikitavolochenko2169]

actually, that’s wrong. the racing stripe was invented by robert stripe in 1932 when he accidentally spilled paint onto his dandy automobile in a fashion resembling the modern racing stripe. after this he noticed that his fine automobile gained an additional 60 hp making him the fastest gentleman in all of England

[@DelsinLabonte]

Petition to start calling them Cunningham Stripes and give him some recognition.

[@thoriso1000]

Empirical evidence suggest they add exactly 5.00 HP

[@jockellis]

Saw Briggs Cunningham race the 1965 Sebring in a Porsche 904. During the great afternoon flood the two liter 904s had faster acceleration than the Cobra Daytonas which were aquaplaning due to their wide tires.

[@_baller]

So racing stripes cuz murica?

[@nickkrantz1143]

Donut media is the best! Thanks guys!

[@suzukisamurai1430]

There are many reasons why I like Shelby.

[@Windrammer]

CatsMeow115 Shelby is gay

[@suzukisamurai1430]

touche.

[@calidude1114]

There are so many reasons why Corvettes are better

[@suzukisamurai1430]

mhmm, name 3 reasons. Really, i'm interested.

[@benj8988]

@@suzukisamurai1430 oof no reply after a year

[@PulsarProactivo]

Still One of my favorite Nolan videos

[@xaiderg]

im fast as fuck boi

[@SurgicalSlasher]

Aitharaith why are you running

[@Sean-ib7pd]

Let's extend the racing stripes vid into a part two...1970s (or earlier) through 90s stripes and graphics shootout or something. To see which make or model had the coolest stripes of the decade. My vote for mid 80s are Toyota truck and 4runner stripes

[@craig7973]

Who invented racing stripes? The same guy who made normal stripes

[@ExaShark]

I read somewhere that the stripes help the driver quickly locate which direction the car is facing in after he spins off track.

[@GregoryCavill]

Im pretty sure the mg3 comes with stripes and thats deffinetley not quick

[@gidovoskos1437]

Ford Fiesta ST mk6 had GT40 stripes back in 2006 and it was really cool!

[@amanwholikescars]

Umm what about the Cunningham race cars in the 50's Edit : Wait now they are talking about him now, XD

[@skuzzyj]

TheFamily OHare Got ahead of yerself, huh?

[@asymsolutions]

They forgot to mention where he got the idea from "allegedly", which was WWII fighter planes, the "legend" goes that the stripes not only looked cool, but made it easier to recognize the car on tracks like monza before they came by to put out pit signs on time and know the driver was coming into the pits. Key word is allegedly, but I like the legend.

[@GETUPANDGO]

lol, yeah, I do that sometimes too

[@Lambullghini]

*LOLz*

[@SkidSociety]

Just when I was thinking, how could Donut Media get even more informative? 🔥🎥

[@lucassamples4827]

What is the history of drifting?

[@Nick-yd7id]

Rally.

[@georgeglass7709]

Nick Dt half true. Nuvolari in the 40s used to four wheel drift. Drifting and racing go hand in hand.

[@wilsonlessley9853]

Keiichi Tsuchiya

[@Lambullghini]

One bmw driver spilled his coffe while turning without a turn signal and the car started drifting and they havent used turn signals ever since

[@marker999mt4]

Nick Dt you just gotta killed it.

[@megarollxrgmbroadcasting91]

My dad and my uncle used to own a welding business together and they had their welding truck have black racing stripes down a white 1986 Ford F-350

[@Latiosx123]

slav

[@Petrospect]

Well, zee Germans made Adidas tracksuits...

[@legionnaire97]

those are different kind of stripes, bruh

[@yareyaredawa]

John Venida They are the same ... just 3 stripes , not 2 .

[@legionnaire97]

No shit, Sherlock!

[@yareyaredawa]

...

[@themidnightinator]

0:30 Bumblebee: I’m leaving! Michael Bay: Why? Bumblebee: I wanna help car KZbinrs

[@1970HondaCL100]

YOU'VE never heard of Pete Brock, but you call yourself an automotive journalist? Okay then.

[@reggielee2235]

Carcaine Datsun 510 forever!

[@StaySyked]

I've never called myself an automotive journalist, I'm just a guy who likes learning about stuff

[@harrygooch8943]

r/gatekeeping

[@HandFedMole]

You call yourself a guy...

[@aaroneusebi6552]

Nolan Sykes did you guys actually contact Pete Brock when researching this? (legit question, not poking fun)

[@patrickmike2524]

I love stuff like that. It came from a necessity and the guy just took a different take on a rule

[@adithyamahesh6961]

You've not heard of Pete Brock? Shame on you..

[@joestoes2503]

Isn't that the guy from the pewter city gym?

[@reggielee2235]

The man who put the Datsun 510 on the map back in the day those beasts scared away Alfa Romeo and BMW in the Trans-Am racing series. Good old racing days.

[@vizualmrs]

adithya mahesh at least he doesn't try to sound like he knew them. He's honest saying he didn't know about him. I respect honesty. Cuz me and many viewers haven't heard of them either.

[@StaySyked]

Well I know now! Thanks for watching

[@nimeshchokshi1921]

Reggie Lee Prior to that, he was involved in the creation of the Shelby Cobra Daytona.

[@crashboredom2]

My grandpa tells me he invented them. When he wanted to paint a white 69 mustang gt500 blue, he spilled the blue paint and it made perfect lines down the whole lenght if the car. Sounds legit to me.

[@lorenzojosemendoza]

+ 200 hp

[@brandons1679]

I had an Ibanez AFS80T, british racing green with white racing stripes. Roadster themed guitar

[@tyrannosaurus_wex]

Who invented racing stripes ? Read More

[@codybyrnes1154]

you made commented one extra line. nice try

[@TheRPGentleman]

Cocaine Fish Not this time, fuckface.

[@cstinchcomb2]

Just found this video and from the story i heard Briggs Cunningham right before a race dident have blue on his car before the race. The officials told him he had to have blue so he just got a paint roller and added the strip last minute before the race

[@triwhale3888]

a ricer's dream

[@marker999mt4]

Triwhale it's just stickers.

[@triwhale3888]

no..its much more than that

[@marker999mt4]

And it's much more than a Rice's dream.

[@triwhale3888]

no...its even worse

[@marker999mt4]

Triwhale 😓

[@rogerroberts1310]

You Tube keeps reminding me that younger people today know how to make videos, but not how to research the presented subject. Back in the 50's most American males read car magazines and by doing so became knowledgeable. Car magazine's indicated that in international auto (and other forms of racing) racing the cars were painted in the internationam assigned standard color for the car's origins. German cars were silver, Italian cars were red, French cars were French blue. But there are only so many colors so the standard for countries tied into the British Commonwealth were British Racing Green (standardized shades of green) with standardized width stripes of certain colors running the length of the vehicle. Scottish cars had white strioes, there were yellow sripes, Canada had some special detail, Australia had yellow stripes broken into short lengths (still used in international boat racing), etc. The U.S. official color was the mentioned dark blue with two 8" wide white stripes. But the Americans broke the rules and started to reverse the colors. In other words defined color shades and stripes of set widths displayed National Pride. Today the cars display the color of the sponsor. Times have chaneed. But as national pride decreased car stripes began to help crews determine which cars were approaching. So and so drove a car painted with unique stripes while the team's other car had it's unique stripe which set it apart. Etc., etc., etc. , knowledge picked up from monthly car magazines writen by and publish by people actively involved in the subject at hand. Factual knowledge was spread by the media back then, today...

[@Ahadd77]

666 views 😱

[@snoopvillazgaming5739]

Lamo I got 666likes

[@nomimalone7520]

Top notch episode! I especially like how you don't yell for half of your video. Looking at you pumphrey.

[@martinsvinklers9307]

First

[@ian.factory]

I’ve wanted to know this for so long. Thank you.

[@Thraakull]

So it is more like a thing of one's view... and I have to agree that stripes on a car feel to me more like a finishing touch, like two lines in the middle of a car signaling absolute balance, like if those stripes are saying: "this car is tuned to its peak performance, and to show it off these stripes are the sign of perfect balance and excelence..." I have just realised that I have a hard time explaining this, and although English is not my first language, I cannot explain it even in my mother language :D :D

[@ninobeans51]

I always thought the white/blue stripes came from Carroll Shelby's farming overalls that he wear while racing, but he didn't race in those until the late 50's.

[@CreepyChappy]

Pete Brock ... Bre Brock racing enterprises , the Bre 240z is still one of the most beautiful cars that have ever existed.

[@fastandsavage]

Funny thing, France had already painted racing stripes in 1964 on the Renault 8 Gordini, which is litteraly aerodynamic as a brick.

[@gerg____7033]

Might be my new fav donut media vid

[@Rangertomcat97]

That's cool. I think stripes are the perfect decal and that almost every American performance oriented vehicle looks good with them.

[@mattlawler8794]

I thought that off center stripes may have been a way. Identify which side of the car the driver say on when left hand drive cars competed against right hand drive cars. It would keep the emergency crew from going to the wrong side of a car after a wreck.

[@sjelliott6660]

That's it. I'm roof striping my '07 XC90. It's dark gray, so I'll go with a slightly darker satin gray. Subtle yet telling.

[@cougarfarmer]

Another amazing thing from Mr. Brock. Thank you for the stripe lesson from Mr. Ihaveneverheardof.

[@GrOuNdZeRo7777]

Stripes were also present on many Allied aircraft during WW2, Aircraft like the P-51 *MUSTANG*, I always thought racing stripes were inspired by that and the P-51 in particular.

[@malachymcnern260]

I love this channel recently you guys are on your shit

[@youtubesecurity5702]

1965 shelby daytona coupe. My dream car!