JJ's "Mountain Green" car for Kansas

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Jimmie Johnson and Team Lowe’s Racing will feature the first in a series of new color combinations on the No. 48 Chevrolet this season as a tribute to the American muscle car.
“Mountain Green” will run as the primary color in this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway. Mountain Green is one of General Motors’ classic color combinations from 1967. Team Lowe’s Racing chose green for this weekend’s race as a tribute to Earth Day which falls on raceday, Sunday, April 22.

More here: http://lowesracing.com/Latest-News?article=5e0236fb-c70b-4100-bead-0493203bc0b2

Can't wait to see some of the other paints schemes and colors this season!
 
There's supposed to be a Series of cars this season from the 48 team featureing "Throwback" color schemes and paints colors from the Chevrolet Muscle Cars of th 60s-70s. I did'nt see any of the others on Jayski yet?
 
So they are going with green this weekend because Sunday is Earth Day? I didn't know they were so environmentally minded. :)
 
One of my favorite paint schemes JJ ever ran. I love the flames.

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Back in the year of nineteen and sixty-seven I attended a Grand National Race at Riverside Raceway. Mountain Dew had several promotional vehicles stationed around the track. They were all "hosted" by hotties of the day who were dressed in their best Daisy Duke style clothing - before anyone had even heard the name Daisy Duke. I was 15. They were HAWT!. I drank my share of Mountain Dew that day.

Somewhere I have a picture I took of the wooden cabin, built on the back of a pick-up truck with the girlies in short-shorts and tight tops dispensing The Dew from taps on the rig.

Parnelli Jones won the race and collected a whopping $18K for his efforts. My how times have changed...
 
robbybee said:
Back in the year of nineteen and sixty-seven I attended a Grand National Race at Riverside Raceway. Mountain Dew had several promotional vehicles stationed around the track. They were all "hosted" by hotties of the day who were dressed in their best Daisy Duke style clothing - before anyone had even heard the name Daisy Duke. I was 15. They were HAWT!. I drank my share of Mountain Dew that day.

Somewhere I have a picture I took of the wooden cabin, built on the back of a pick-up truck with the girlies in short-shorts and tight tops dispensing The Dew from taps on the rig.

Parnelli Jones won the race and collected a whopping $18K for his efforts. My how times have changed...
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Jr has run the retro Dew. I want to see him in a Gatorade 88. Why not? Pepsi owns Gatorade along with Dew. Get er' Done

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FenderBumper said:
Is the #2 car the only one left with 1 full season sponsor?
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I'm not sure but I think it's beyond sad if that is or is close to being the case. Personally, I miss those days when my driver had a single sponsor for the entire season and about the only time the paint scheme changed was for a special event.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I'm not sure but I think it's beyond sad if that is or is close to being the case. Personally, I miss those days when my driver had a single sponsor for the entire season and about the only time the paint scheme changed was for a special event.
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Those days weren't all the long ago actually. Things sure have changed on France Mountain.
 
With some of the luck they've been having I wouldn't have jumped for anything green.....great looking car though. I miss the days of the constant paint jobs with special ones for the All-Star race and a couple others.
 
My favorite paint scheme was Jack Ingram's plain brown #11. I liked to the call the color simply "brown bag 11".


I suspect a few here got to see Jack race. He won the second race I ever saw in a 55 chevy, it was a 200 lapper at Greenville Pickens. Bobby Isaac won the first one in the famed K&K Dodge with Hyde as the CC.


Jack Ingram knew how to run a short track program. His cars were not like the beautiful creations today. But cars like his and the K&K had a simple elegance that is Unmatched by the current tootie fruity-ed pink flamingos.


Jack was always fast, that brown looked stealth and sinister. After he won the 200 lapper I remember looking at the 55 Chevy up close , the tires were still hot, I have never seen a better looking car in my life.


Probably had as much to do with being 10 years old as anything, but even after 40 years it is still a good memory.
 
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