"interesting" maybe, but am I the only one who finds this rare color and stripe combo to be hideously ugly?

I agree with Charley, the grill looks to have been replaced, and is black instead of silver, and unpainted around the outside... installed right out of the box, and the emblem put on it the wrong place... To each his own, but I'd take ANY standard color 69 Z with "normal" sripes on it over smurf blue any day...JMO!