Well I picked up the car today and here are the facts.
#1 The stripe color is actually a metallic silver (much better than white).
#2 They are painted on.
#3 Until I repaint it... the stripes stay.
That's not exactly what I want but hey right now I'm just stoked I can even drive a car this cool.
A side note that Ihopp77 mentioned. The weather here on this continent sucks right now (at least for the most part). To pick up my car I had to drive my mom's 93 T-Bird west on I-70 over at least 100 miles of icy, snowpacked road (the other 135 miles were fine). Not a lot of fun in a rear wheel drive, (fairly) high horsepowered vehicle. At least the thing has great snow tires... otherwise I wouldn't have attempted it.
Ira