Correct order of colours

[Evangelion]

Just about to buy a new (well new to me anyway ) car but it's in a bit of a boring colour, so I thought I'd liven it up by putting some stripes on. As I'm British and the car's French, I thought it might serve the best of both worlds if I used 50mm wide red, white and blue longitudinal stripes.

So here's the question; is there any sort of convention as to whether the red goes on the left, or the right?

[Cliftonite]

Looking from the rear or the front?

[Evangelion]

Sorry! I meant to say on the left-hand side of the car, or the right. So looking from the back really.

[Evangelion]

(I suppose the more politically aware among us would insist that the red was on the left and the blue on the right.)

[Squiggs]

All depends as to 'which side do you dress Sir?'

[PaulKemp]

The only convention I can think of is the RAF roundall, if you open that up blue is on top of white then red

[Evangelion]

That's funny, I've always thought of it the other way round, red on top of white then blue!

Anyway, I probably won't be buying that car now, I'm looking at another today in a much better colour, silver I ask you. Far too many of those already - last time I had a silver car I was forever losing it in car parks.