Mario in the Holman and Moody Daytona winning Ford that just makes the 67 year cutoff. King Richard, Fireball Roberts and I think Junior Johnson on the banks at Daytona. Plus Rex White, I think at Daytona as well. Smokie's black and gold cars and Rex Whites White and Gold cars where big time players back then.
The 777 'Liner of Kenz and Leslie, first a twin engine then 3 flattie powered liner was amazing in all it livery'
Chaparrals.... All American !!!.. I think the first three pictures were taken at Le Mans ... Didn't they often race with Texas license plates on the back and genuine Chevrolet tail lights ??
I grew up around Jim Hall and his Chaps... Maybe the most innovative racing team in American history, but man... their livery sucked.
National liveries are cool. Modern motorsports sponsorship precludes returning to them, but I think Olympic athletes' uniforms in these colors would be awesome!
I went down the rabbit hole of vintage NASCAR last year. I fell in love with the Smokey Yunick Black/Gold, as well as the black widow 57 Chevys. I built a few models of these cars.
Cool - there have been many amazing paint schemes on race cars - one of my favorites is the Glass Slipper
Shot of my old man getting out of the sucker car: This was one crazy night... I was on drugs for my neck that mixed wrong with some allergy medication and ended up in the hospital. Some crazy shit went down beforehand though... my old man was the best kind of mess.
While pretty basic, but Lemans race cars didnt have much more than the number on them, the three Cunningham 60 Corvette's that went to Lemans always stick out in my mind since they were the first Corvettes to win in the 24 hour race.
If GM were smarter, they would have stuck with this color scheme on every racing product in the GM racing Division. Announcing a new C23 Corvette? Cool, show it first in white with red and blue accents... New Camaro? Same shit. And GM race cars? Gotta be in white... And, of course, they'd need some trick as marketing term for the color white they used.
I agree, I have never liked the Yellow, but that has to do more with the team actually building the cars. Chevy still tries do the "hands off" even though we all know they are involved. Still kind of a odd remnant of the AMA ban era of the 60s. At least with the Camaro when it came back in 2010 they first season they raced it, Sunoco came on board and they ran replica Sunoco Camaros for the season like when Donahue was wining everything in Trans Am.
I don't have a photo, but I think THE most iconic racing livery is Richard Petty's lifelong use of blue. But then, that's the kind of class that we'd expect from the King!
This car belonged to Carson & Lauren Scheller's, Carson was a member of The '54 Ford Club of America and the father & daughter campaigned the car in several Le Carrera Pan Americana races. HRP
The "Blown Hearse" is still around. It is owned by Billy Coleman who formerly worked for Borgeson. He was also married to Dennis O'Brien's daughter.
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