I just looked at the group 2 catalog and I'm wrong about the removal of the Pinto emblem being removed as the pictures show both emblems on the group 2 cars. It also talks about the group 2 KIT so it looks like Spearco might have made the side stripe for Ford. A big maybe but doable upon reading the catalog. Either way the stripe made the group 2 cars regardless of who made the stripe. Kind of like, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?"