go-faster stripe

plural go-faster stripes

1. UKhumorousA decorative horizontal stripe on the bodywork of a vehicle, imitating those found on racing cars.

   Later, on the motorway, a car with go-faster stripes and spoilers overtakes us, horn blaring.

   1999, Mark Simpson, It's a Queer World

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   Dad was the owner of a gold Ford Cortina with a black go-faster stripe and a raunchy-sounding engine.

   1996 April 13, “Novelist Raffaella Barker remembers her father, the poet”, in The Independent

   Rather, when Mrs Lee orders a red GT model with electric windows, a heated driving seat and go-faster stripes...

   2003, Clare Morris, Quantitative Approaches in Business Studies

   Even the dumbest criminal is likely to look in his rearview at some point, and think, I wonder is that the same '69 Mustang with go-faster stripes […]

   2007, John Connolly, The Unquiet