Bobby Labonte's Interstate Batteries schemes were always 🔥. As a Tony Stewart fan, I thought his Home Depot scheme from 1999-2001 was the best of them from his Gibbs years.
An honorable mention for the 2010s: the matte-black Furniture Row No.78. Simple yet effective with its minimalistic look thanks to that scheme having little to no contingency sponsors.
For me 2000s: Kevin Harvick 29 Goodwrench (2003-2006) Carl Edwards 99 Office Depot (2006-2009) Ryan Newman 12 Alltel (2006-2008) Joey Logano 20 The Home Depot (2009-2010) Jeff Gordon 24 DuPont (2009-2011) 2010s Joey Logano 22 Shell Pennzoil (2013-2021) Brad Keselowski Miller Lite (2014-2020)
I'm surprised you didn't include Bobby LaBonte's Interstate Batteries 18, or Tony Stewart's Home Depot 20 for the 2000's. And in the 2020's, I agree with Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott, but also I think Will Byron's Raptor 24 with the highlight yellow on black/white will be fondly remembered in time.
Byron's car is dull, as in uninteresting. Besides, it breaks the first tenet of race car lettering. What the hell is RAPTOR? There is no visible place on the car that says what Raptor is. Is camo? A band? A men's cologne? A brand of off-road tire? A fudge icing salted caramel (mmm . . . that sounds good) coffee cake? What?
@@DDS029 Growing up and watching Jeff Gordon race I had no idea what DuPont was, and I had even less an idea what Axalta was. But nonetheless I always thought the cars looked cool. And I don't think it's full, I don't think enough cars play with that highlight yellow look. People say the Brawn GP car in Formula 1 was one of the sleekest cool looking cars across the board, and I think WB's 24 car will have a similar effect.
It debute in the 90s but was popularized in the 00's by bobby lebonte, the #18 interstate batterys car influenced me as a kid who loved green to make him my favorite, to this day i have an interstate battery in my car, nascar marketing really does work
Most iconic of modern day has gotta be the Rainbow 24, black 3, and of course the Richard Petty 43. That's a ton of championships won by those three schemes!
The Dodge Dealers scheme from 2001-2007 were pretty iconic (they are why I am a Dodge fan to be honest). Honorable mention for the 2000s-2020s could be any version of the Menards schemes, which have remained mostly unchanged over the years and have had great success.
Junior Johnson’s # 11 Bud cars were the first iconic Bud cars. His # 22 coffee car looked great also. Bill’s original Coors car. Red Baron 90 was nice. Dale’s Wrangler cars were definitely iconic!
(Here we go . . . fair warning, it's long, but I think has some interesting stuff . . .) Roger Penske's CAM-2 Mercury's (with morphed into Bill Elliot's Melling paint scheme when they bought a Penske car), and Penske's Matadors. Simple by today's standards, but very daring for it's time. The CAM-2 Mercury scheme impressed me so much I painted one of my late's 70's street stock the same way. You'll notice the early multi-color paint schemes, the sides were mostly, if not all one color. Easier to repair, but still had a noticeable scheme. Along those lines, another car Foyt drove, that I liked was the Jack Bowsher owned # 1 (Sometimes "#11) For years Bowsher always had white Fords with a blue wing shaped graphic on the front of the hood, and blue on the "C" pillars. Calling today's cars having "paint schemes", is like saying they are Stock cars. Yeah . . . that may have been a carryover of a term used but, not really. I hand lettered at least 500 race cars (would have easily more than double that if I didn't have to retire early), even Cup cars of the guys based in south-eastern Michigan from the 80's on. A LOT of ARCA cars, including Bob Keselowski's cars, from Late Modela to His first Winnebago sponsored ARCA he ran in '93 at Daytona. Since the bigger, stable sponsor, it did only make sense to go with decals after that. I painted multi-color base paint schemes on about 25 cars, which was pretty good considering I only learned how to spray cars by ( imagine this) reading the instructions. Nowadays with wraps, you have "With my computer, I can do anything and everything!" Yeah, but if you still have no eye for the art and the practical usage of the medium, it just means you suck on a larger scale. Less is more (if you really have talent) Bigger is not always better. (BTW, Petty's car was blue and FLORESCENT RED. Look up florescent orange, you'll see what I mean.)
Gordons rainbow paint scheme was the best paint NASCAR has ever had and ever will have. Instantly recognizable. Fun. Bright. Serves it's sponsor. Looks great on merch. Just perfect.
Bondy Long - Dick Hutcherson's gold and white, with red numbers '66 Ford #29. A scheme later used by James Hylton. If you are going to put gold on a race car, THAT is the gold to use. I used it as a trim color on my orange and white race cars. Any of the purple cars Curtis Turner drove. 22 or 99. Jr. Johnson's 11 and 12 KFC/Bud cars.
For the 00's, I'd put ALL 3 DEI cars #1 - Park/Green Pennzoil scheme #1 - Truex Jr. Bass Pro Shops scheme #8 - Dale Jr. Budweiser scheme #15 - Michael Waltrip Napa scheme
My favorite paint scheme jeff gordon jurassic park the ride and rusty wallace every single elvis presley paint scheme..... hey that could be a video topic right there every nascar paint scheme of a musical artist/band/album etc
One paint scheme that I would throw in would be the Dodge #9 of the 2000s driven by Bill Elliot and later Kasey Kayne. Such a perfect modernization of Bill's classic '80s scheme, fitting comfortably into the early-to-mid-2000s while also holding up flawlessly today. Easily my favorite #9 scheme. In fact, I already don't really care about Chase's current paint scheme, but you have no idea how much I wish he'd throw back to that Dodge scheme. (I think he might have used it before, but I forgot when and he should do it again anyways.) Actually on a side note, maybe I have a thing for simple solid red paint schemes, because Larson's red Valvoline scheme is easily one of my favorite current paint schemes to the point that I wish it didn't happen to be among the rarest sceondary schemes in the sport, although I still like his main scheme, especially as a tribute to Ricky Hendrick.
great video, I would of added Dale Jaretts 88 cars and rickey cravens tide Pontiac / Kurt Buschs Rubbermade ford, Gordon was my favourite driver i loved his Pepsi car too.
Nascar early 00s on fox this 9year old kid bragged he knew every single drivers name by just the car number yet when it came to jeff gordon he had nothing and only said the flame car lol good times
Favorites? Have always been a fan of Wood Brothers red over white #21 cars, especially the Pearson Merc. Gotta be the longest running scheme of all time. And the longest list of great drivers. Following that, the man in black's #3 Goodwrench; Junior's red 8 Budweiser; Kyle's M&Ms 18 (daughter's fave); Petty blue 43 on anything and year, and agree with the Fabulous Hudson Hornets as the first
