Whatever you think about what was going on in America in the 1960s, I feel like it should be absolutely an unassailable fact that the era represented the high water mark for human and stripe interactions. I’m not sure humano-stripian relations have ever been better or more fruitful and creative. Look at these pictures from Ford’s 1966 brochure. The stripefulness is just off the charts, a real reminder of what we were once able to achieve.
That went for other graphics, too. Checkerboards, Ben-Day dots, it was a golden era for so many graphical things. But stripes, man. It was a hell of a time to be a carefree young stripe, ready to take on the world. These were probably created before the first production cars rolled out. They may have used painted engineering models (full size or scale) if they didn’t have production cars available. If they didn’t, they should have.
