I just found all these wonderful answers in my spam box, along with a few spam's from good friends of mine, I guess their email got hacked.
The story of the stripes was I was at a car show and a guy had a '71ish Challenger, and the hockey stripe was kind of similar to the Camaros of the late 60s, which ran down at the tip of the front bumper, so this guy had bought the car new and when he had it painted, he turned the stripe up and went across the hood, again similar to the various (humble bee stripe) options GM offered on the Camaros and Chevelles. So when my truck was being painted I thought about it, and I asked the guy if he could do the same thing because he said he was having trouble turning the pinstrip so tightly to go down to the marker light, and I just showed him what to do on my diesel K5 Blazer. When I pick the truck up, I was so surprised and impressed.
The original Stripes tape, and I wasn't interested in paying whatever price LMC charges, and my guy said he likes to do real painted on stripes. If you look inside my door jambs or tailgate, you'll see remnants of the original tape, and this is not an exact copy, but you'd never know it.
When he painted my now ex wife's 95 diesel Suburban, which I also brought from out west so it has no rust, I had him replace the stickers on the hood with a decal that says 6.5 turbo
weasel. a guy on eBay was selling exact copies of the original GM sticker, so I had him modify it for a few extra dollars, and the painter clear-coated them onto the hood. When we went to pick up the truck, the job was so perfect you be sure it was done from the factory, and my ex-wife was really pissed, but they couldn't be removed because they were clear-coated on!
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