Road Cars and "go-faster Stripes"
From the 1960s, stripes have sometimes been applied to road cars as well as racecars. Sometimes referred to as "go-faster stripes" on road cars, they are applied as a mild form of customizing. Arrangements include one or more stripes on the hood, roof, and trunk; stripes on the sides; and stripes that cross the hood or trunk and continue along the sides. The term "go-faster stripes" was used in the Daily Mirror comic strip, The Perishers, on the premise that striping is popular with boy racers. In a running gag, one character sold his slow-witted friend a series of home-made buggies that all had stripes.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—J.G. (James Graham)
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