Citgo has a logo made for NASCAR and it comes as no surprise to see the paint scheme make this list. 51 Mello Yello car from the movie. As stated above, this specific paint scheme was run in the 1997 exhibition race, NASCAR's 49th year of existence. Some of you that have never seen this car may wonder why it is so special. Kyle Petty was never as good as his brother Richard Petty but he did manage to have some of the best paint schemes in NASCAR's early years. Other non-Winston Cup regulars Brendan Gaughan, Austin Cameron, Kelly Tanner, Ron Burns, Lance Norick, Rich Woodland Jr., Butch Gilliland, Jeff Davis and Scott Gaylord also participated in the event as well. Good race. He'd be strong throughout the entire day, leading three laps and coming home third. He would go on to finish 70 laps in third, a traditional spot for "The Intimidator" to finish. In 1998, he was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers. They all look to be in pristine condition with radiant colors and oftentimes eye-appealing paint schemes. In honor of the movie, DuPont would transform Jeff Gordon's rainbow scheme to a red and black Jurassic Park scheme. Elliott's scheme, a car fielded by Ray Evernham, was celebrating the 40th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas, along with their main sponsor, Hellman's Mayonnaise. The only drivers to win more than once since 2000 are Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Greg Biffle and Ward Burton. Drink with us. That's why it earns a spot on this list. Harry Gant drove around in a green stock car with the Skoal Bandit paint scheme for a very long time. His Sharpie $1,000,000 Contest was definitely a great paint scheme and helped him win the first race of his career. The NASCAR Xfinity Series raced at the 1.5-mile track for the first time in 1997, with Jeff Green the winner. He's had so many different great schemes over the years, it's just downright ridiculous (and by the way, this isn't the last one on the list either). Paint scheme of all time. Since he was unable to drive in the race, then-Busch Series regular David Green filled in for the injured veteran. To race a paint or for more options, sign in to Trading Paints. Gibbs will be driving a throwback to Bobby Labontes 2002 Interstate Batteries car, a paint scheme that Labonte ran for Joe Gibbs racing owned, of course, by Tys grandfather. Harrison Burton will be honoring his dad with a throwback to the 2000 Exide ride. 2018: 2017: 2016: 2015: 2014 . 99. It was truly a great looking race car. Even though he didn't put together a solid weekend, it was still a nice looking paint scheme. 14 Office Depot Chevrolet. Although his Rainbow Warriors paint scheme was much like the one he ran as a rookie, his Hendrick Motorsports team switched from the Lumina to the Monte Carlo model in 95. At that point in time, we had rarely seen any silver or chrome cars, so it was a great idea when Hamilton came out with this car in the Daytona 500. He did, however, win two races over his NASCAR career with both coming in 1994 at Daytona and Talladega (the second runnings of each race). Starting the 1998 season at the Daytona 500, Petty opened up the year with the special paint scheme featured in this slide. The car'sinauguralrun was at the 2010 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, finishing in third. A lifestyle so perfectly captured by the country greats of yesterday, but still alive and well today in artists who truly get it. Tony Stewart's 2006 season was very inconsistent and up and down to say the least. 1990 No.88 Buddy Baker, Red Barons Pizza, Before Papa Johns was the beast it has become, Red Barons was just as good and even better because you could make it yourself. 5 items . And I'm not just saying that because he's my favorite driver of all-time. This entry from the Cartoon Network in 1998 has every element possible to qualify as one of the worst paint schemes in NASCAR . Some of these sponsors included the one pictured in this slide, Service Merchandise, McDonalds' Happy Meal, Mac Tonight, NASCAR's 50th Anniversary and of course, his typical paint scheme he ran throughout the 1998 season. Terry and Bobby Labonte are the only pair of brothers to win a Sprint Cup Championship. Kulwicki was the highest-finishing Armed Forces car, as he finished in eighth after starting 27th. ALL 2023 NASCAR PAINT SCHEMES!! He started all but one race that season and managed to accumulate two top fives and three top tens. I wish there were more paint schemes like it. Cant wait for doubly duty this weekend! The biggest sponsor missing from the paint schemes of today is Coca-Cola. . This was such a cool paint scheme and I'm not saying that because Bill is my favorite driver of all-time. 60 Winn-Dixie Ford is probably the most well-known Busch/Nationwide Series car in the series' history, which is definitely deserving of the 29th spot on this list. 25. Unfortunately, he would pass away after a helicopter crash on July 12, 1993. The No. 00 Domino's Pizza Toyota at the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on July 29. What an awesome throwback! Jeff Gordon has raced a special paint scheme in at least one event in every season since 1997. Petty's near top ten would eventually become his third-best finish of the entire season, as he finished eighth at Loudon and sixth at Watkins Glen. So with all this nostalgia, lets take a look at some of the best paint schemes that well see out on the track this this throwback weekend: LaJoie is honoring country singer-turned-NASCAR driver Marty Robbins with his throwback scheme that pays tribute to the bright pink and yellow paint scheme that Robbins ran in the 1970s. The three-time Winston Cup Champion faded back and wound up coming home in the 32nd position, as Dale Jarrett took home the checkered flag. 39 instead of the No. He was discharged from the HealthSouth Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama four days prior to the 500-mile race. A young hotshot by the name of Matt Kenseth filled in for Elliott at the MBNA Gold 400 at Dover. The only decal that remained was that of Sprint Cup's. It was still a great looking paint scheme, though. The movie, Up, had a budget of $175 millionit would go on to earn $731,342,744 in the box office, making it Pixar's third-most successful film behind Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo. I'm going to start this off with a bold prediction.. Kahne will finish in the top five in points this upcoming season. He also started second at the Daytona 500, the "Great American Race.". 9 Chevrolet identical to the Hooters paint scheme Kulwicki drove in the only title race of his career. Anyway, at the fifth-ever race at Chicagoland, Wallace started that Sunday in the 33rd position. Bobby Allison turned the Miller High Life No.12 into a vintage NASCAR. The 1994 and 1995 Daytona 500 winner left Larry McClure at the end of the 1997 season to run forFelix Sabates in the No. Earnhardt started the night 19th and finished the night in the very same position. He has had the fortune of having some of the most awesome paint schemes ever with this being one of them. #NASCARThrowback pic.twitter.com/xO3TorFSp3. Austin . He would race the entire 1999 season for Roush, but didn't live up to the billing after posting stats of one pole, one top five and two top tens. For the 1998 Winston, Earnhardt was sponsored by Bass Pro Shops and his No. pic.twitter.com/rKzPu2CZ4r. Edwards, perhaps the most consistent driver last season, was one-half of one of the most exciting NASCAR championship runs in 2011. The 1998 season, also the sport's 50th anniversary, was an exciting campaign in which we saw Dale Earnhardt win the Daytona 500 for the first and only time in his career after many unsuccessful tries. Doctors told him he could not suffer another trauma, so he spent 1998 going from doctor to doctorto see if he could make a comeback. He had not won since 2008 and the streak would extend even furtherKevin Harvick claimed the checkered flag for his third win of the season. 1998 No.24 Jeff Gordon, DuPont Chromalusion Special Edition. As Trickle is recovering, Daland hires another hotshot rookie to take his placeRuss Wheeler. 1 driver by seeing who has been the most dominant as of late. The movie was produced in 1990 and the plot began with Cole Trickle, played by Tom Cruise. In any case, it was still a spectacular-looking paint scheme and was definitely a nice transformation from the familiar Viagra Ford we were all used to seeing. Ever since I was a young boy, I have always enjoyed the taste of jelly beans, most notably of the Jelly Belly brand. So he had to race his way in to the event. Check out the fresh paint schemes drivers will display for Sunday's Daytona 500 (2:30 p.m. Now it makes me wish I would have tried the Uh-Oh Oreo's. This wreck forced the 2011 Hall-of-Famer to retire shortly thereafter from NASCAR. Kenseth started the race in 16th and finished in sixth, his only race of the entire season. Here are the top 30 NASCAR Paint Schemes of the 90s. He could have been a Hall-of-Fame caliber driver or a mediocre driver that consistently ran in the middle of the pack in the middle part of his career. I deemed it necessary to put this car on the list just because of the sponsor. I love the paint scheme and wanted to put it higher, but it's got to stay down in the lower 70's. He also had another Checkers/Valvoline scheme that he drove at the second Talladega racethere was also a special Checker's/Florida State University paint scheme that he drove at the season finale at Homestead. 27 McDonald's car after the 1994 season and ran the No. 40Scott Wimmer, 2009 (Nashville & Las Vegas, Nationwide). Online. Photo courtesy of Geoff Burke/Getty Images for NASCAR. The Gatorade Duels were run on Feb. 17 and those same numbers would appear on the hood. 9 Dodge. The actual All-Star Race celebrates the drivers who had won the previous year or during the current campaign. Following his arrival at Roush Racing at Michigan, LePage would post seven top-20 finishes, including a season best sixth-place finish at Charlotte. Jeff Burton has widely been considered to be one of the best Nationwide drivers of all-time, successfully notching 27 wins during his career, which is good for sixth all-time behind Kyle Busch, Mark Martin, Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards and Jack Ingram. Known for his notoriously bad qualifying efforts during the 2000 season, Labonte started the two races in 38th and 39th, respectively. Benny Parsons rode the Copenhagen Snuff long before NASCAR started banning certain sponsors. However, he would struggle throughout the race and would eventually be caught up in a wreck on lap 285. The blue of the night is masked perfectly across the car for the design of the Big Mac Tonight back in 1998. This car would first appear at the Checker Auto Parts Dura Lube 500K at Phoenix and the following week at the Pennzoil 400 at Homestead. During that span, the twenty possible wins were shared among just six drivers: David Pearson (eight times), Bobby Allison (four times), Cale Yarborough (three times), Buddy Baker (two times), Darrell Waltrip (two times) and Benny Parsons (one time). David Land: "Gordon's paint schemes were indicative of the era of NASCAR and its fanbas. Were having flashbacks to 2002. Nope, not the Batman: Dark Knight movie. The following season, Reese's would come back to sponsor the No. The car was done after the 1991 season, but it will go down as one of the coolest paint schemes over the last couple of decades. 2008. Sep 30 2013 - 4:17pm. 3 would switch to the No. 9 car that season. 3 items, and 350 in sub-albums. For some reason, I just thought this car was awesome and I still think that, I guess. Bill Elliott. The 1995 season was a huge one for Jeff Gordon, as he won his first of three premier series titles in four years. While driving the No. Like a number of paint schemes on this list, the one pictured was a one-race deal. Created Feb 23, 2020. NASCAR Superstar Jeff Gordon with the 2015 Corvette Z06 Indy Pace Car . A few weeks later, at the Sirius Satellite Radio at the Glen, Gordon and his No. However, he would be involved in an accident on the front stretch with Mark Green on the 84th lap. The 15th race of the season, at the DHL 400 at Michigan, Kahne switched things up and ran his first different paint scheme in NASCAR. Two races later, at the Banquet 400 at Kansas, Green would run a special paint scheme, sponsoring Berry Burst Cheerios. Yes, he didn't win, but it was an awesome paint scheme. 1998 No. From 1970-79, the Winston Cup Series ran a total oftwenty races at Darlington. The South Boston, Virginia native got his first big break prior to the 1994 season, when he was offered a full-time ride by the Stavola Brothers to drive the No. Everyone's favorite driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., won the race. He'd end up finishing the race in 11th, as Dale Earnhardt took home his first Daytona 500 checkered flag. He wouldn't finish the race either and came home in 36th. Kyle Busch won the race in his Mint Crisp M&Ms/Indiana Jones paint scheme that was featured earlier in this slideshow. Glen Wood's first career win came at a 1960 race at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 22 and instead, his No. This was one of the few paint schemes that used gold as the main color. It got a little better along the way, even though he had just one top-ten finish (10th at Martinsville) in that car. Not even close. 17. Hamlin qualified on the pole for the race, but finished the day in 12thCarl Edwards won the race, which came as no surprise at the time. Sadler would also go on to drive the black and white Ford in the Budweiser Shootout, but would finish the invitational event in 12th place. 1 Kubota Chevrolet. 44 on this list. 68 Country Time Lemonade car. 8)and Paul Menard (No. Mark Martin won the race after Jeff Gordon ran out of gas on the last lap. Days of Thunder was the first movie ever produced about the sport that we know as NASCAR. However, Hershey's sponsored the car for just one racethe Pepsi 400 at Daytona. After qualifying 22nd, Kahne finished the race one lap down in 21stKyle Busch won the race with Jeff Gordon and Kevin Harvick right behind him. It was pretty cool paint scheme and I wish teams like the Red Sox sponsored cars more often. Ah, Days of Thunder. Davey Allison, once a stud in Winston Cup, claimed the Daytona 500 in 1992 and was poised to become one of the greatest drivers of all-time. He may have come in second, but he surely had the best paint scheme on the track that day. 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