1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

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1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

Postby Chouan » Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:15 am

At this year's SOC I bought a bundle of documents in the John Moss Charity Auction. The documents were said to have come from the archives of "Bob Sinclair's right hand man". Contained within the documents was a package of negatives labeled "1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes". Of course we are all familiar with the stripe kit that was available for the 99 Turbo. Thanks to Jason they are available again! Based on the origin of these negatives and CT plates on the cars I am assuming these are the test photos made by Saab USA for the stripe kit. Enjoy!
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Re: 1978 Proposed Turbo Rally Stripes

Postby Chouan » Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:22 am

There are 36 photos in total but here is a limited sample of each design.
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Re: 1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

Postby squaab99t » Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:51 pm

That is a fantastic find and would be a shame to be stuck on a shelf in someone Saab hoarding pile.
Thanks for sharing.
Got to love the burnt orange...

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Re: 1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

Postby TurboBudapest » Mon Sep 07, 2015 5:20 am

Phenomenal. Thanks so much for sharing. I also love the first two pics. Especially on a black car! I have a cardinal red 99 Turbo and seems to me that the design they ended up going with was the best after all!

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Re: 1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

Postby RadioFlyer » Sun Sep 13, 2015 7:40 pm

So disgustingly awesome!

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Re: 1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

Postby DeLorean » Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:23 pm

Every single one of those looks cool, They should have offered those as options when the sold the cars.
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Re: 1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

Postby SwedeSport » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:56 am

I have to disagree about how cool these concepts are.

The Turbo Stripe Kit that was finally decided upon was definitely the best choice.
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Re: 1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

Postby hutch » Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:40 pm

I think its definitely cool to see what could have been but I'd agree that they what they ended up with was the best choice. Though 2&3 are hilariously awful that I would love to have them...

Thanks for sharing!

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Re: 1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

Postby Geoff » Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:24 pm

I agree that the production stripe kit was the best. I do kind of like this one
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But in sort of a retro/nostalgic way. If I were buying a car at the time I'd probably think "no way!"
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Re: 1978 Proposed Turbo Stripes

Postby SwedeSport » Fri Sep 18, 2015 11:14 am

Geoff wrote:I agree that the production stripe kit was the best. I do kind of like this one
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But in sort of a retro/nostalgic way. If I were buying a car at the time I'd probably think "no way!"



This one is not bad, but some of the other ones are just so disjointed.
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