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Hertz side stripe positioning
« on: May 16, 2022, 11:11:33 PM »
I have seen these stripes applied both ways. The registry directions and directions that came with the stripes suggest pic 1 is correct.  Pic 2 is common. Judges which is correct for early Hertz car?? click on each pic to see difference 

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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2022, 11:31:54 PM »
I have seen these stripes applied both ways. The registry directions and directions that came with the stripes suggest pic 1 is correct.  Pic 2 is common. Judges which is correct for early Hertz car?? click on each pic to see difference 

Ray
Although not infallible (who or what is?) a good rule of thumb is to trust the registry. Pic one is common style for a Hertz car without the center stripe at the door gap side. Pic 2 with the center stripe section just after the door gap (of course without a H)is common for a non Hertz car. 
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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2022, 12:17:48 AM »
+1 to Bob's comment and good for you for checking and not following the crowd.

Here are a few examples. First for the period and a magazine shoot showing an example from the 500's followed by just some that I have pictures of in original paint from the teen's



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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2022, 04:37:43 AM »
Thanks guys. As I just recently added a Hertz to the stable I was wondering about this.
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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2022, 08:01:37 AM »
Thanks for clarifying.  Here is a promo pic to consider

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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2022, 08:08:39 AM »
Time for another FB group 😂. Like there aren’t enough already

“66 Shelby Hertz cars with correct side stripes”

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Ps.  Also, here is another piece of “extraordinary proof” to carry in my trunk bag to support my extraordinary claim. 🤓
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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2022, 12:20:54 PM »
Taken summer of 1966 in Seattle by the guy who rented it...
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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2022, 12:43:13 PM »
Dec 1971 after purchase for original owner who never painted it or changed the stripes
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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2022, 03:01:46 PM »
More period pictures.  From Hertz color folder.

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« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2022, 03:10:34 PM »
Time for another FB group 😂. Like there aren’t enough already

“66 Shelby Hertz cars with correct side stripes”

Ray

Ps.  Also, here is another piece of “extraordinary proof” to carry in my trunk bag to support my extraordinary claim. 🤓
FYI any extraordinary proof may need to be reasonably relevant for your specific car or series of cars. Just because something out of the ordinary is on one  car doesn't mean that it was that way on another car. Just saying. ;)
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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2022, 04:29:43 PM »
So, I guess Cragars were available on Hertz cars too.   ;)

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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2022, 05:06:20 PM »
The Hertz car in the color folder it’s likely the prototype and the Hertz Magnum 500’s were not available when made.  There is also a vintage image with the aluminum ten spokes on a Hertz car.  I expect Shelby American Inc. and Hertz had not dialed in the final recipe for production cars and that’s why we see these variations. It’s probably applies to the side stripe as well.
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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2022, 05:07:18 PM »
So, I guess Cragars were available on Hertz cars too.   ;)

...Only when combined with the different side stripe position... :o
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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2022, 05:58:15 PM »
ALWAYS IMHO have to take advertising and prototype pictures with a grain of salt. Way too many examples of ideas, thoughts and hopes that that never made their way onto the production cars.
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Re: Hertz side stripe positioning
« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2022, 06:45:25 PM »
So, I guess Cragars were available on Hertz cars too.   ;)

...Only when combined with the different side stripe position... :o

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