quote:Originally posted by Rocky:
Just my $.02, but I like the black to stop at the door sill, rather than all the way up at the waterline (Half Way Up the Door) ....
Like the SACC Pantera (Scott Bell's car).
Rocky
That is the factory race paint pattern on the sides, front and rear deck lids. There weren't many factory race cars but I never saw it used on non-red cars.
Red/black seems to have been the DT race colors.
I agree that it is a drastic change to the virgin clean look of the production car and probably was intended to give the race car a more sinister effect on the track.
On the red cars in the bright sun it does have some kind of a polarizing effect on your eyes. You do need to look at it with dark glasses. It does that to my eyes. I presume it does to others as well?
It does remind me somewhat of when Porsche went to the black highlights and blacked out trim on the 930's and 935's in the late '70s and early '80s.
Looking at the results on the top of the car, I never understood why they never did the roof too and just limited the rear deck to within the rear sailfins.