Re: [DML] DeLorean Body Stripes

[Horseman of PA <the_horseman_pa@xxxx>]

I saw a DeLorean that had a stainless steel plate
that was mounted on the side of the car it was painted
or dyed or something smoke grey but you could make out
the fact that it was indeed stainless steel with a
grain and was contoured to the panels. probally more
work then it's worth but thought I'd throw that in
there. 
--- Bob Brandys <oehcs@xxxx> wrote:
> I have seen both styles of striping on the delorean.
> The bottom wide black
> stripe was designed for follow the black bumper
> line. This is a typical
> decor design that was first shown on the cover of
> Popular Science in 1954
> and exemplified on the 92 full size Buick.
> 
> However , I found this dark semi gloss finish to
> visually distracting to the
> stainless lines of the side of the car.
> 
> On the other hand, the upper fender light gray
> striping was truly and accent
> to the lines of the car. The only problem was these
> was that they were only
> visible close up. (10 ft.) They look nice but are
> understated.
> 
> Accent striping needs to accent and be easily
> visible on the car finish.
> This is where the challenge comes on the Delorean. 
> First, the Delorean
> stainless is not a gloss finish. This is a possible
> advantage to make gloss
> finished striping more visible.
> 
> On the other hand, the unique brushed stainless
> speaks to an underlying
> grain in body panels. A solid color might clash with
> the grain lines of the
> stainless.
> 
> What would be interesting would be striping that has
> a grain finish in it.
> This is an available screen printing image. 
> Further, this grain can be
> finished with a transparent color. A nice example,
> would be a smoke
> finished transparent over a grain running parallel
> to the car. This would
> look like a transparent smoke strip on the stainless
> body!!!
> 
> Or it might even be possible to make a transparent
> dark smoke strip that
> would still show the grain.
> 
> As for colors, this is a very difficult choice for a
> D since it is black and
> silver grained. Complementary colors do not exists
> on a black and white
> color wheel.
> 
> What this means is that color striping would have to
> be subtle. Again a
> transparent strip still showing the grain could
> work. I have tried some of
> the transparent color similar to overhead
> transparencies. The results were
> very interesting.
> 
> This lead to experimenting with the tri color
> sequences similar to 3 M type
> striping. A red, white and green stripe would speak
> to the British nature
> of the car. Read white and blue, well,,... you
> know.
> 
> Black parallel stripe was also interesting.
> 
> Lastly, a chrome version of the original upper
> fender strip would
> definitely accent the car.
> 
> Bob Brandys
> 
> 
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