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Lee Stewart 09-03-2021 04:14 AM

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Lee Stewart 09-03-2021 02:13 PM

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Lee Stewart 09-03-2021 02:15 PM

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Lee Stewart 09-03-2021 02:17 PM

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Lee Stewart 09-03-2021 02:22 PM

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Have you noticed that most of the photos of restored 65 - 67 GTOs are missing the pinstriping. I wonder why that is.

Lee Stewart 09-03-2021 02:24 PM

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Lee Stewart 09-03-2021 02:27 PM

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Lee Stewart 09-03-2021 03:42 PM

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There are the ordinary A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, and then there are what one US Air Force squadron commander called "the coolest looking A-10s." Those planes are the ones rocking the ferocious shark teeth war paint, he said.

"It's not just any A-10s that have the shark teeth," Lt. Col. Matthew Shelly, an experienced A-10 pilot and the commander of the 74th Fighter Squadron, told Insider. "It's only the 23rd Fighter Group at Moody Air Force Base" in Georgia.

"There are other A-10 units that have nose art, but not the iconic shark face," he said.

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The first American planes to have the shark face nose art were the 1941 P40s used in China to fight the Japanese. The famous Flying Tigers.

Lee Stewart 09-03-2021 04:58 PM

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60sStuff 09-03-2021 08:53 PM

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Have you noticed that most of the photos of restored 65 - 67 GTOs are missing the pinstriping. I wonder why that is.

I’m surprised they blacked out the recessed area of the hood scope.
Many repainted GTO’s have the body color in that area. Silly!

The pinstripe on a 65-66-67 GTO was one of the trademarks that set it apart from the Lemans and Tempest.

If you went to your Pontiac Dealer to special order a GTO to your liking, you could have the “delete pinstripe” noted on your order.

Not many elected to do this, consequently the vast majority of GTO’s have pinstripes.

I think the pinstripe looks awesome on these cars and accents the body lines.

Pinstripe colors.
Starlight Black
Cameo Ivory
Montero Red

The stripe colors were determined by exterior and interior colors of the car.


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